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    Eve's Rapture

    It's difficult to tell where, exactly, the playwright wants to take us in 'Eve's Rapture'. For the most part it feels uncomfortably like stylish Christian doctrine.

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    Half of Plenty

    A Chicago-bred 2007 dramedy making its West Coast debut, Lisa Dillman's 'Half of Plenty' brims with promise at the outset. Its theme of death in suburbia is timely.

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    Nights of Noir

    Screenwriters Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker devised what felt like a new generation of zany spoofs with their 1980 hit film 'Airplane!', shamelessly elevating corny humor to new heights.

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    Come Back, Little Horny

    According to Laura Richardson, "Say the word 'mother' and it brings up so much material" that one might be able to compose a play around it, which is exactly what she has done in this play.

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    The Elephant Man

    This troupe, under John DeMita's less-is-more direction, delivers a sensitive, intimate revival of Bernard Pomerance's 1979 exploration of the world of the social outcast–turned-celebrity John Merrick.

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    Rantoul and Die

    Shock and awe operate overtime in this crude, brutish, often hilarious dissertation on the ugly behavior of redneck yobos behaving badly.

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    Ooooogy Green and Other Fables

    Playwright Page Hearn, with a little help from Brooke Pacy's original story, has created a weird and wonderful world centered on, of all things, a caterpillar-boy named Ooooogy.

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    Collected Stories

    Donald Margulies' two-hander applies the dynamic seen in 'All About Eve' to the literary world—in this case legendary short-story author Ruth Steiner (Kandis Chappell) and young up-and-comer Lisa Morrison (Melanie Lora).

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    William and the Tradesmen

    It's not much fun spending an evening with a man who complains about his band, his book, his acting career, his improv group, and all the many women he's either banged or is contemplating banging.

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    The Children's Hour

    When "The Children's Hour" premiered on Broadway in 1934, it shocked audiences with its bold story of a pair of schoolteachers accused of lesbianism.