Shock and awe operate overtime in this crude, brutish, often hilarious dissertation on the ugly behavior of redneck yobos behaving badly.
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Ooooogy Green and Other Fables
Playwright Page Hearn, with a little help from Brooke Pacy's original story, has created a weird and wonderful world centered on, of all things, a caterpillar-boy named Ooooogy.
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Donald Margulies' two-hander applies the dynamic seen in 'All About Eve' to the literary world—in this case legendary short-story author Ruth Steiner (Kandis Chappell) and young up-and-comer Lisa Morrison (Melanie Lora).
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You've got to hand it to Pulitzer-nominated playwright Adam Rapp ('Red Light Winter'). When it comes to exploring dark themes and hard-edged views of human behavior, this guy doesn't pussyfoot around.
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Regina Taylor's theater piece, inspired by a coffee-table book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, explores the journey of African-American women to find a sense of self-worth and social acceptance.
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Arthur Miller's classic, a response to the communism uproar of the early 1950s, remains as relevant today as when it premiered 56 years ago. The townspeople and authorities of Salem, Mass., careen headfirst down a path of tragic inevitability.
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One doesn't often equate swashbuckling epics with 50-seat theaters, but then, most theaters of that size don't use the name Staged Cinema Productions. Whether this staging of Ken Ludwig's 2007 adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic can be said to succeed hinges on how smoothly Nathan ...
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For its musicianship, this show is worth a visit. Writer-performer Jason Petty sings Hank Williams classics, plus covers of other gods of country music, backed by a four-man band of superb musicians.
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Now in its 10th and final year, Lodestone Theatre Ensemble has never been afraid of taking chances. In the company's latest outing, four playwrights find interesting ways to take us to extremes in individual works that make terrific use of an impressive pool of talent.
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Marry Me a Little and The Last Five Years
It's easy to see why East West, known for its Stephen Sondheim revivals, paired his one-act comprising songs that were cut from various shows, with Jason Robert Brown's second major work.
