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A New Brain, Eleemosynary & Roundup

Small Stages: Three community theater companies bring new productions.

By City Weekly Staff
POSTED // Nov 11,2009 - If a musical is going to go the "throughsung" route, it's usually because something about the subject matter feels particularly operatic.

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The Caretaker

Page to Stage: It works as literature, but The Caretaker blossoms in local theater

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - Harold Pinter plays too often become objects of academic analysis...

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The Turn of the Screw

Page to Stage: It works as literature, but The Turn of the Screw blossoms in local theater

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - The mysterious and unknown fascinates us most...

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Cathedral of the Madeleine Centennial Celebrations

SATURDAY 8.15

By Becca Maksym
POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - Through Aug. 16, the Centennial Celebrations of the Cathedral of Madeleine continues with its week of solemnity with special sermons commemorating 100 years of education, arts and ...

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Samba Fogo

Brazil Nuts:Local performance groups gather disparate elements into Samba Fogo.

By Jacob Stringer
POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - Have you ever been wandering around one of the many local street festivals and come across a practical demonstration of something similar to karate but much more acrobatic, perhaps with a touch of dance thrown in for good measure?

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Drosselmeyer, Inc.

Nut Cracked: SB Dance again defies categorization with the vaudeville theatricality of Drosselmeyer, Inc.

By Jacob Stringer
POSTED // Jun 17,2009 - It probably doesn't hurt that Baryshnikov doesn't have a speaking role; of the five characters that make up Drosselmeyer's cast, he's one of two who doesn't have lines. No, Baryshnikov is simply expected to do what he does...

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'Copters & Casseroles

Sister Dottie S. Dixon provides more real emotional heft than Miss Saigon.

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 13,2009 - Along the way, there's room for plenty of fun at the expense of Dottie's unique manner of speaking, including an audience-participation lesson in how to speak Spanish (Fork)...

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Beau Gesture

Ririe-Woodbury celebrates 45 years with dances looking beneath the Surfaces

By Jennifer Poplar
POSTED // Apr 22,2009 - Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen wants to demonstrate the company’s formidable range, and offer audience members three distinct pieces that will challenge their perceptions of time and space. And, of course, she wants to entertain.

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Di Esperienza & End Days

Arts and Ends: Talking with the Mona Lisa in Di Esperienza, and with Jesus in End Days.

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - The tension in these framing sequences provides for some of the play's most intriguing exchanges, though, it also exposes the extent to which the triangle of the three works isn't entirely equilateral.

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Forbidden Loves

Romeo & Juliet and Stop Kiss deliver bittersweet theatrical valentines.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - This has always been a problematic play for me. What starts out as a bawdy satire on foolish young love takes, well, a bit of a turn. Either that, or its the most brilliant and misinterpreted dark comedy of all time. Im going to stick with the traditional reading, though.
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