Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical
Bloated at less than 60 minutes, Jack Dyville’s book strains hard for easy laughs in his wink-wink pulpy story of a closeted lesbian girl-next-door movie star in 1950s Hollywood.
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Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
The delightful, off-the-wall "A Scotsman in Thailand," performed by Baby Wants Candy, a Chicago-originated improv ensemble, was one night only.
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Séances, table tipping, spirit photography, and the Fox sisters all figure prominently in "Ectospams," a charming movement meditation.
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Unfortunately for writer-composer Ben Knox, his largely unclever low-camp musical "For the Love of Christ!" is neither intelligent enough to be satirical nor ballsy enough to be subversive.
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Despite its juvenile title, "Finger Paint" is a marvelous work of theatrical brio. Tapping the talents of its four audacious young actors, the play tackles love, sex, and art without sentimentality.
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Andrew Unterberg has all the ingredients for a diverting suspenser in the mold of Ira Levin or Shirley Jackson; instead, he's opted for a serious psychological drama, something his characters and story can't support.
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As Noël Coward once wrote, "Ninety minutes is a long, long time," and that sentiment certainly applies to Rag 'N Bone Theatre Company's frenetic, misguided stage adaptation of Dylan Thomas' screenplay "The Doctor and the Devils."
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Though short—only 55 minutes—"Flight" offers a potent mix of writer-director Tim Aumiller's trenchant script and a pair of terrific performances.
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Playwright Judy Chicurel makes her theatrical debut with "Damon and Debra." What the writer lacks in sophistication, she makes up for with a sympathetic touch for her characters.
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Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Political infighting is made exceedingly entertaining in this wild, red-state-versus-blue-state satire.
