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Martin Sheen Returns To The Stage And (Once Again) Comes Up Roses

by Deidre Crawford | March 1, 2010
Senior Editor, Arts and Culture

Actors Martin Sheen, Brian Geraghty and Frances Conroy star in the revival of Frank D. Gilroy's family drama.

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by Erica E. Phillips | February 18, 2010
Staff Reporter

If you've immersed yourself in sci-fi drama over the last few decades, you've probably seriously wondered what we're going to do when the robots take over. Matthew Benjamin and Logan Brown's new play "Wirehead," has arrived at this moment.

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'bobrauschenbergamerica' Celebrates- Gasp!- America

by Rebecca Haithcoat | January 29, 2010
Senior Editor

TheSpyAnts' production of Charles Mee's 'bobrauschenbergamerica' embraces the colorful, cultural mash-up that is America.

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'Orpheus' Slow Descent

by Jessica Donath | January 18, 2010
Columnist

Independent filmmaker Lou Pepe doesn't ascend with his version of Tennesee WIlliams' "Orpheus Descending."

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'11, September' Tosses In Everything But The Kitchen Sink

by Rebecca Haithcoat | January 14, 2010
Senior Editor

Breadline Productions' first foray into the L.A. theater scene is a grab bag of heinous crimes. Reach your hand in, and you might get...incest! Abuse! Infidelity! Invasion of privacy! Homicide! Suicide! Step right up, everyone walks away with a prize.

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'Extinction': An Ominous Postscript To The Bromance Genre

by Piya Sinha-Roy | December 4, 2009
Staff Reporter

A bromance with a moral message? Gabe McKinley's world-premiere play "Extinction" examines the darkness that drives the debauchery.

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Actor's Gang's 'All Cake, No File' Is A Half-Baked Satire

by Rebecca Haithcoat | November 3, 2009
Senior Editor

Actor's Gang member Donna Jo Thorndale's spoof of the Food Network's most famous Southern belle, Paula Deen, is doggone funny. Deterring from that to rants about healthcare, the war, and prison reform, however, proves a recipe for disaster.

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God Does Not Save Stein's 'Gertrude'

by Haley Greenwald-Gonella | October 22, 2009
Contributor

If you've ever had the desire to see Courtney Love (plus Kurt Cobain, the remains of a revolution, Celine Dion, and a bit of the Third Reich, all in one night), then head on over to God Save Gertrude. [...]

'Gogol Project' Is Russian Lit On Acid

by Olga Khazan | September 30, 2009
Staff Reporter

Puppets, masks, dance and drama collide in a bizarre interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's three greatest short stories. [...]

Blackly Comedic Play Sheds New Light On Family Dysfunction

by Claire Spera | September 21, 2009
Contributor

"August: Osage County" takes on the dysfunctional Weston family and sweeping themes, including drug addiction, incest, abuse and infidelity. And you thought your family gatherings were rough. [...]

Love Is Down And Dirty in "Blackbird"

by Jessica Hilo | September 15, 2009
Contributor

A new spin on a classical tragedy insists that even in the most inhospitable of fields, love dares not only grow, but flourish.
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