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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Producing new plays always is risky. Commissioning them, and putting them on a stage is riskier still and perhaps a moment o..
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
The skill and talent of actors can make a good play better, but when faced with a script that simply doesn't work, there is litt..
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
"The Witnesses," a mature look at a painful time, as Champagne, love and laughter give it elegant color. Emmanuelle Beart is suc..
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
"Married Life," an okay film, but Hitchcock did it a lot better. Directed by Ira Sachs, who also wrote the screenplay with Oren..
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Two fine pieces of theater "Death and the King's Horseman" by the Black Rep and "The Good Thief" by Midnight Productions. An..
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Rib Ruggiero's direction is highly professional, and "Ella," is enjoyable music at the Rep, where it will run through April 13th..
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Triteness can sometimes be excused in a comedy. Stereotypical characters are less forgivable. "Bluish," which opened at the Ne..
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Jane Page directs seamlessly, and set designer Robert Mark Morgan finds space one never new existed in the tiny Studio. "Rabbit..
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Musical comedy, and comedy without music are on this week's entertainment calendar, with solid music and superlative dance in "T..
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Many people have tried to assassinate American presidents. It's not an event, or an act, to celebrate, but Stephen Sondheim mak..
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," silly fun without message or meaning; "The Rape of Europa," a search for stolen art work; "You..
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Strong drama, well performed, "Night, Mother," at the Tower Grove Abbey, through March 15. Carry tissues...
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
The most powerful of today's films, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," comes from Romania and deals with abortion in a way I've nev..
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Theresa Rebeck's brisk, brittle characters are well-drawn and often very funny, as they display in "The Scene," the new producti..
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Human tragedy is the stuff of life, and of drama, and it comes at us this week from two diametrically opposed starting places: ..
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