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"Thus I turn my back" In Washington, D.C., Patrick Page's "Coriolanus" reviewed....
Unbuttoned: Samuel Beckett Meets William Osborne I had never heard the details. Now at last the full story!...
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An Epitaph for Our Golden Age 'Oh, this is a happy day. This will have been another happy day. After all. So far ..."...
Missa Solemnis and Black Watch Two weekend performances in San Francisco...
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Neil LaBute's Miss Julie On making a 19th century play feel fresh and feral to a 21st century audience....
And all shall have prizes The New York Drama Critics' Circle (of which I'm a member) voted on its annual awards today. Here are the...
Funny as a straitjacket In Chicago, "Woman in Mind" and "Pal Joey" reviewed....
On Fire Mark Jackson's firecracker production of The Arsonists and the Boston Marathon bombing...
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Candide goes to Vegas "Pippin" and "I'll Eat You Last" reviewed....
Unsubscribe and be damned Theatrical life after the subscription model....
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Toward eternity "The Trip to Bountiful" reviewed....
At the atheists' ball "The Testament of Mary" and "Macbeth" reviewed....
Cutting through the Confusion Mark Wing-Davey's Pericles at Berkeley Rep delivers moments of emotional truth despite the melee of the miss-en-scene...
Pinterland West "Orphans" and "Jekyll & Hyde" reviewed....