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    2 Pianos 4 Hands

    As targets of the Hollywood machine gun, we don't often have the opportunity to watch a story where the dreams that you dare to dream really don't come true.

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    The Sticking Place

    We're told this production is a radical adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," cast as a recurring dream of Lady Macbeth, and directed and designed by Chris Covics.

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    Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse

    Ostensibly the narrow story of the surviving three-fourths of yet another dysfunctional family, "Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse" reaches for the broader themes of inherited addiction, parental neglect, and the salvation of friendship.

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    Telethon

    Why oh why oh why oh did anyone ever make "Telethon," the new play at the Ohio? Seldom has such fancy been put to use with such little imagination.

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    Shafrika, the White Girl

    When the talented Anika Larsen arrives on stage in "Shafrika, the White Girl," you wonder how the set of images being presented will be transformed into a full evening's entertainment.

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    Bird Machine

    The stagecraft is the star of  "Bird Machine," co-created by Renee Philippi and Carlo Adinolfi.

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    Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell

    If John Kelly had concentrated on the subtext of the music rather than re-creating an image, this would have been a real evening in paradise.

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    This Isn't Paradise

    Richard Hymes-Esposito's "This Isn't Paradise" seems more impressive as an act of revenge than as a play.

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    Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed

    Before this couple can tie the knot, the honeymoon's already over.

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    Year One

    Perhaps director Harold Ramis was trying to create a new Abbott and Costello or even a Laurel and Hardy with his teaming of Jack Black and Michael Cera in the prehistorically limp comedy "Year One."