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In his notes for Harlequin's production of Rabbit Hole, director Brian Tyrrell mentions his fondness for "well written plays." His phrasing leaped out at me - not just because playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is good at his job, which he clearly is, but because it echoes a phrase from my
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In his notes for Harlequin's production of Rabbit Hole, director Brian Tyrrell mentions his fondness for "well written plays." His phrasing leaped out at me - not just because playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is good at his job, which he clearly is, but because it echoes a phrase from my theater
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Much of New Jersey playwright's Christopher Durang's work can be described as "the comedy of disorientation." Much like the comedy of social awkwardness popularized in the U.S. by the British version of The Office, Durang's writing requires exquisite precision in tone and pacing or it falls apart completely. The audience
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Film critics are, most importantly, consumer advocates: You only have so much entertainment cash, so spend it on this movie, not on that one. Theatre critics attempt to fill the same role, but we know it's only useful to a point. That's because theatre is gloriously inconsistent. What flopped opening
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Film critics are, most importantly, consumer advocates: You only have so much entertainment cash, so spend it on this movie, not on that one. Theatre critics attempt to fill the same role, but we know it's only useful to a point. That's because theatre is gloriously inconsistent. What flopped opening
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What a welcome difference a decade can make. When Stop Kiss debuted at New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater in 1998, CurtainUp praised it as "thoroughly modern." Only half a generation later, it strikes me as almost thoroughly dated, a grim reminder of a more homophobic time. Stage artists
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Like the cat in Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, burlesque exists in a dual state of dialectical uncertainty. It both is and is not theatre. It is and is not performance art. It is and is not subject to criticism. Modern burlesque is both defiantly feminist and old-school objectification, simultaneously reflecting
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Having recently authored a novel about the Apocalypse as predicted in the last few pages of the Good Book, I can tell you quite a bit about what people in this area think about the End of the World: almost nothing. Even most churchgoing Christians view the Rapture as a
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Having recently authored a novel about the Apocalypse as predicted in the last few pages of the Good Book, I can tell you quite a bit about what people in this area think about the End of the World: almost nothing. Even most churchgoing Christians view the Rapture as a
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They'd none of 'em be missed. So sings Ko-Ko in Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado - and the house music to Olympia Little Theatre's droll production of Murderers, which closes this weekend. Co-directors Toni Holm and Kathryn Beall (with an assist from AD Julia VanDerslice) do a fine job of punctuating Jeffrey Hatcher's