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    Perfect Wedding

    For the third time this season, a couple wakes up in a bed with neither knowing the partner lying beside them. The first time, the reason was amnesia; the second instance was due to inebriation, which led to soul-searching; here again it's drunkenness, this time leading to laughter.

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    The 24th Day

    Nicholas E. Calhoun and Wayne Stephens, the producers and stars of this Off-Off-Broadway showcase production of Tony Piccirillo's 1996 two-hander "The 24th Day," are doing what Back Stage often advises young actors to do: make their own breaks.

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    On TV: 10 Things I Hate About You

    About 400 years on, Shakespeare comes to this: high school antics drawn with intermittent charm -- in crayon.

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    Entourage

    "Entourage," the HBO series heading into its sixth season that, like its movie star protagonist Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), coasts along on charm and little else.

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    I Love You, Beth Cooper

    We should have had a clue from the first two words that appear onscreen: Fox Atomic. The recently disbanded production entity responsible for such gems as "Miss March" and "The Hills Have Eyes 2" is also behind "I Love You, Beth Cooper."

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    Humpday

    The story of two straight friends who decide to create and star together in a gay male video for an amateur porn contest, "Humpday" was a minor sensation at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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    The Europeans

    "The great chaos that is this continent" is how one character describes the confusing events of "The Europeans," Howard Barker's 1990 historical drama receiving its U.S. premiere as part of the Potomac Theatre Project's program at Atlantic Stage 2. "Chaos" is putting it mildly.

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    Monty Python's Spamalot

    "I am not dead yet," croons a suddenly resuscitated would-be corpse in this gloriously goofy musical, based on the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

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    Les Éphémères

    Le Théâtre Du Soleil's dense but not impenetrable "Les Éphémères" investigates the impact of death on the living and the sad prospects of life unlived. In French. For six hours. Tough sell, right?

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    Equus

    Peter Shaffer's award-winning 1973 London and Broadway play, a feat of breathtaking theatricality, continues to resonate powerfully.