Playwright-director Jonas Oppenheim is one clever, funny guy. Among his past treasures is a site-specific interactive/guerrilla performance piece, I'm Going to Kill
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In Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull, about the theater and its ambiguous relationship to life, neurotic young playwright Konstantin Treplev speaks about the calc
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There are no sly topical winks in Kenneth Cavander's problematic adaptation of the Oedipus trilogy. Cavander's new play, The Curse of Oedipus, which just ope
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Tarell Alvin McCraney's tender, poetical drama The Brothers Size (Fountain Theatre) and Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore's meta-theatrical farce Drop Dead! (pr
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The Brothers Size homes in on a pair of brothers: Ogun (Gilbert Glenn Brown) owns an auto shop and is caring for his younger, parolee brother, Oshoosi (Matthew Hanco
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small, Norma Desmond says in Sunset Boulevard.the audience sits on bleachers around the stage so that it feels like you're i
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An initial impulse upon discovering a new play about Hollywood types making a movie in an exotic location is to get down on your knees and pray, Please Lord, not ano
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Pointless killings lie at the heart of playwright Brett Neveu's world. Through senseless murders, the author grasps for the purpose of life in an indifferent wor
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In the summer of 2006, the core trio of Latino sketch comedy troupe Culture Clash ? Richard Montoya, Herbert Sigüenza and Ric Salinas ? were gathered for a photo sh
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In terms of international stature and influence, Paul Robeson, who died in 1976, was the most direct antecedent ? politically, philosophically and even in the way he
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When you've got a reclusive Hassidic kid in 1950s New York City who speaks, often annoyingly, through his sketches and paintings, you've got a provocative cl
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Vanity Fair has its head lodged so far up its ass, it's seeing stars. In Jimmy Im's April 10 story on how For The Record (a cabaret/theater show now in
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