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    EMBEDDED

    If only Tim Robbins had let his imagination run a little wilder. Very little in his slightly fictionalized look at the invasion of Iraq and the prevaricators behind it is going to be new to his core audience. It's possible, I suppose, that somewhere in this great city a ...

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    ROMEO AND (Y) JULIET(A)

    No need to be familiar with this classic story of star-crossed lovers as you enter the theatre. The tale is told frequently and briefly numerous times as the audience is seated, with Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt, and the others pantomiming the incidents as they're narrated by cast ...

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    Howie the Rookie

    Reviewed by Lucy Komisar

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    Les Boréades

    Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of BAM 2003 Spring at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NYC, June 9 – June 15.

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    THE LIES OF HANDSOME MEN

    It's a very stylish undertaking, this evening of two one-acts by Rob Nixon. The first, which gives its name to the evening, isn't so much theatre as straightforward storytelling. The Narrator (Alain Uy) even tells us how it's going to end. It's in the telling, though ...

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    Compagnie Flak

    Reviewed by Phyllis Goldman

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    Headless Whorse Dance Company: Coal Walker

    Self-presented at Theatre of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave., NYC, May 15-18.

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    Doña Rosita the Spinster

    Presented by Jean Cocteau Repertory at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, 330 Bowery, NYC, Jan. 15-May 4.

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    THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO

    It's Christmas 1939 in Atlanta, and the biggest news besides Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia is the premiere of Gone With the Wind. But most wealthy Jewish girls and their mothers are far more excited about the beginning of the social season, the Ballyhoo dance at the exclusive Standard ...

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    TAKEN IN MARRIAGE

    The ITA Workshop, which has provided audition-coaching services for 19 years, makes an impressive debut as a producing company with two compelling Thomas Babe plays (this production alternates with A Prayer for My Daughter). There's a hint of renowned playwright Theresa Rebeck in this captivating female bonding dramedy, though ...