As targets of the Hollywood machine gun, we don't often have the opportunity to watch a story where the dreams that you dare to dream really don't come true.
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We're told this production is a radical adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," cast as a recurring dream of Lady Macbeth, and directed and designed by Chris Covics.
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This latest play by Jacqueline Wright about the struggle of a young boy and a woman to find love amid an urban wasteland, leans too heavily on the abstract and poetic, thereby losing its theatrical power.
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Carol Lynn Pearson's three-hander is an often-searing indictment of rigid values integral to monolithic systems like organized religion, as well as the impact such systems have on Ruth and Alex, a Mormon couple mourning the suicide of their gay son Andrew.
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A teenage boy with father issues. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've all heard that one. But when this particular boy is a German, living in Paraguay within a tight-knit community of ex-military expatriates since 1944, there's a different story to tell.
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How do we manage to feel empathy for one of the most Machiavellian villainesses in dramatic literature? The title character in Henrik Ibsen's 1891 classic is a tricky role.
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In this reworking of his 2008 play of the same name, Erik Patterson eloquently examines two of the more perplexing phenomena produced by the AIDS epidemic: men who deliberately choose to become infected, and others so angry and embittered by their affliction that they seek to infect others.
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These days, commercials for snacks and games still run during Saturday morning children's television programming, but what's missing are short, educational pieces set to catchy tunes.
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This show is advertised as a "new spaghetti Western musical," which is a slight misnomer. It is a Western, in the Sergio Leone vein, and there is some excellent music by Tony Bollas but not quite enough to qualify as a musical.
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It's 1722 in Leipzig, Germany. The Thomaskirche is in need of a new music director. Germany's top organists and choir leaders descend on the church to apply for the job.
