Playwright-screenwriter Neil LaBute's best works provoke controversy and stimulate thought on vital social issues. Unfortunately, this piece seldom feels coherent, let alone engaging.
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John Stuercke's world-premiere play "The Berlin Dig" is an apparently earnest attempt to consider the world, or at least the warlike part of it.
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Treat Yourself Like Cary Grant
There's something disheartening about plays and movies that owe much of their identity to other plays and movies: They tend to be far removed from basic human reality.
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This satisfying revival unfolds with equal measures of crisp assurance and spontaneous feeling.
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The show is a boy-meets-girl Western musical with a happy ending. But don't go expecting "Annie Get Your Gun" or "Oklahoma!"
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Some productions are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. All are the case in this enchanting revival of Shakespeare's romantic comedy.
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A black-and-white film and a black-and-white stage set (notwithstanding a mound of green grass) are connected with a long scarlet ribbon—a bloodline between life and imagination, between cinema and theatre.
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Once you get past the fact that this "new" 1898 play by Mark Twain is receiving its West Coast premiere 111 years after it was written, its tale of the European art scene circa the mid-19th century is quite strikingly contemporary.
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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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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).
