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    Eclipsed

    In this harrowing yet sometimes surprisingly humorous new play by Danai Gurira, the theme of emotional survival during the bleakest of circumstances is driven home with startling immediacy.

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    Groovaloo

    The Groovaloos, a fresh-faced, 14-member Los Angeles–based troupe of expert hip-hop artists, is presenting a spiffy 85-minute show of locking, popping, free-styling, and spoken-word poetry.

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    LOL

    Here we are in 2009, with pop culture overrun by Facebook status updates and endless celebrity tweets on Twitter. So what better time for a show about cyber sex?

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    In the Daylight

    I'll never understand why so many writers can't get out of their own way. Take Tony Glazer, an obviously talented playwright with a penchant for witty zingers and hearty American family drama.

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    Peace

    Here's the challenge: Perform this piece in a community vociferously insistent that war is the answer and that homosexuals should not marry.

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    Borderline

    The hippocampus is an odd setting for a play, but it works for writer-director Shervin Youssefian's two-act dark comedy.

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    Complete

    Andrea Kuchlewska's play "Complete" tackles how language can be used by individuals either to liberate emotion within themselves or to help stifle it.

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    Underground Woman

    Actor-playwright Victoria Thompson is brave—and not just because she performs the lead in her own play.

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    Solitude

    Adapting Octavio Paz's provocative "El Laberinto de la Soledad" into a work for the stage is an inspired concept.

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    Fucking Men

    One might fear that the audacious title of Joe DiPietro's 2008 seriocomedy suggests the play is geared more toward box office muscle than toward pure artistry.