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    4.48 Psychosis

    Nothing can be more terrifying than the disintegration of a human mind. And as frightening a view as some of Sarah Kane's plays come to communicating that state, none come closer than her final work. A virtual monologue, it presumably places us inside Kane's own crumbling, feverishly tortured ...

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    A Splintered Soul

    Rabbi Kroeller's (Bruce Nozick) moral compass shudders into overdrive when memories of the horrors of life in Poland during World War II under Nazi brutality and his equally ruthless involvement with the resistance collide with his survivor's guilt, his belief in a gentle God, and the human instinct ...

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    Quartet

    Ronald Harwood's love for the performing arts — especially his own service to the flamboyant actor-director Sir Donald Wolfit in his exceptional work The Dresser — is clear to see.

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    Macbeth

    For years the classics have been set in different eras, and to a certain degree they have worked because the writing is brilliant enough to have sustained innovations.

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    Distracted

    Lisa Loomer's hilarious and deeply moving new play follows a mother's quest to discover the right thing to do for her 8-year-old son, diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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    Black and Bluestein

    Jerry Mayer's latest play is filled with earnestness.

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    A Good Smoke

    I couldn't help but feel that Don Cumming's self-directed piece was simply a faster, more accessible version ofLong Day's Journey Into Night.

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    Fahrenheit 451

    The latest stage incarnation of Bradbury's sci-fi literati treat is a kindhearted return to stylish material that's most definitely still got something to say.

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    Closer

    Patrick Marber's incisive, dramatically piercing, savagely funny 1997 script has been described as "a sexual square dance" of four characters who repeatedly change romantic partners¿a process aided by a complex structure that moves back and forth through time.

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    This Beautiful City

    The Civilians, a New York-based troupe, explores the subject of America's burgeoning evangelical Christian movement, zeroing in on Colorado Springs, Colo.