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    The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!

    Playwright-director Joe Marshall throws in everything but the kitchen sink in his zany mess of a holiday play, "The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!"

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    Biography

    S.N. Behrman sits squarely in the tradition of early-20th-century playwrights such as Philip Barry, Robert E. Sherwood, and others who wrote civilized, literate drawing-room comedies.

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    The Starry Messenger

    Matthew Broderick repeats his performance from last season's "The Philanthropist," as another dull midlevel academic with a stalled career, in Kenneth Lonergan's disappointing new play.

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    The Age of Iron

    With "The Age of Iron," it's taken the Trojan War, blanded up the famous parts, glossed over the interesting bits, and dressed it all with a desperate comic energy that begs the question, Why?

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    Dreamgirls

    This national tour production of the 1981 hit girl-group musical is far from a knockoff of the original and is a dream come true.

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    Zero Hour

    Jim Brochu takes on a daunting task in his new solo show about actor Zero Mostel, one of the greatest and most outsized talents ever to grace the American stage and screen.

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    Girl Crazy (in Concert)

    The last thing you would expect George and Ira Gershwin's classic score for "Girl Crazy" to be is dull. But that's exactly what it is in Encores! concert production.

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    Post No Bills

    Mando Alvarado's new play has a sitcom-worthy premise that's hurt more than helped by the plot's sudden dark turn.

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    My Wonderful Day

    Though it's centered on the timeworn cliché of the wise innocent child, Alan Ayckbourn's "My Wonderful Day" is largely entertaining.

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    The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part One-The Story of a Childhood

    With two installments still to come, it's premature to characterize Horton Foote's complete work. But if they live up to the first part, what we are being served here is nothing less than an American masterwork.