Like the characters in Kit Steinkellner's play about putting on a play, someone was too kind to the theatermakers.
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Though the 1944 George Cukor film version is generally considered a classic, this long-winded tale of extreme mental cruelty, and worse, hasn't aged well.
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The key plot device in Paul Grellong's 2005 Off-Broadway play vaguely recalls Ira Levin's sprightly thriller "Deathtrap," but similarities end there.
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The plain facts of Oscar Wilde's life are a real-life morality play, about a man brought low by his own arrogance and foolhardiness.
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This ambitious sextet of 20-something USC graduates has done an admirable job of coping with its crash-landing from the cushioning protection of academia to face the "inevitable day a flashlight shines brightly in our faces," turning their separate life experiences into one collective night of performance art.
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The New Testament and Helter Skelter
Here's an interesting pairing of short plays by Neil LaBute. "The New Testament" is a world-premiere showbiz satire, directed by Bjørn Johnson
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One of our recently recognized familial and societal problems is Alzheimer's, an uncompassionate disease that attacks the brain before playing havoc with the body.
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Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins
The script for "Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins" would resonate in any era, but its view of growing up in the turbulent and recession-ridden 1970s feels astonishingly relevant today.
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Feel free to imagine the moment when Matt Walker as Oedipus has his way with the highly padded chesticles of Beth Kennedy as Jocasta—mother and husband of Oedipus— because it shall not be described in terms medical or otherwise here.
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Milly, a young novelist-to-be, breaks into the home of her idol Wallace Trumbull, who wrote a novel 50 years before and then seemed to disappear. Why does she break in?
