Though the look is contemporary chic and the unspecified time period is clearly the 21st century, there's something old-fashioned—in a good way—about Beau Willimon's juicy political potboiler.
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Playwright Craig Wright (Lady, Grace) makes his directing debut with this West Coast premiere of his 2007 play.
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The term offbeat comedy may sound out of place for a play that involves a pair of incest cases, abortion, multiple suicide, and alcoholism.
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James Yaffe's suspense comedy misses a chance at being a pungent commentary on prematurely putting the aged—in this case a tenured philosophy professor—out to pasture.
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If you've ever experienced it, odds are it took place during a moment of intense interpersonal stress.
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An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
When television variety specials were in their heyday, Broadway superstars were sometimes paired to such spectacular effect that the shows became legendary.
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This Kander and Ebb classic was a groundbreaker when it premiered in 1966. In its unnerving portrait of 1930s Berlin, just prior to the Nazi reign of terror, it catapulted the Broadway musical genre into edgier terrain.
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This loony, crazy quilt of a play by late gay playwright Jeffrey Hartgraves is set in a strange sort of limbo where a group of gay writers and icons have taken up residence.
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Based on the Z-grade 1936 morality film warning parents of the dangers of "the leafy green assassin," Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney's musical version, which opened Off-Broadway in 2001, is an absolute hoot.
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Athol Fugard's newest play still deals with the effects, or aftereffects, of Apartheid in South Africa—a subject he has explored and dramatically exposed since his first play, "Blood Knot," in the 1960s.
