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Hannah Franklin and Chris Macdonald get wet in Sextet.

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Opening Nights: Sextet

Three composers experience disasters in their love lives in Tommy Smith’s fragmented new drama of obsession. So—from heartache,…

Opening Nights: Trash Talk

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Opening Nights: Trash Talk

Garbage, those who generate it, and those who collect it.

Opening Nights: A Doctor in Spite of Himself

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Opening Nights: A Doctor in Spite of Himself

Lewdness, scatology, and pop music at Intiman.

Law and DiMarco have it out.

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It opens in the middle of a fight. Not a dignified duel

It opens in the middle of a fight. Not a dignified duel or argument, but a flailing, thrashing,…

The magical cast of <i>Arcana.</i>

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Within a tarot deck lurk 22 special cards known as the Major

Within a tarot deck lurk 22 special cards known as the Major Arcana. Depicting such archetypal figures as…

The "shape-shifter" preps backstage at Intiman.

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Renata Friedman: Seattle Theater’s Waif-in-Chief

A distinctive, wiry physique and versatile talent keep her in demand.

Courtney (Grace Booth) eventually smells the off-gassing.

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Opening Nights: Friend’s Enemy

The compromises of Big Eco.

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Opening Nights: The Swan

An absurdist look at woman/bird-man love.

Conspiracy theorists Leggett (left) and Wright.

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Stage Review: Domestic Surveillance

In ACT’s Yankee Tavern, 9/11 conspiracies collide.

Kelly: making a scene.

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Best of Seattle 2010: Jim Kelly

Best Arts Partisan

Westervelt: Come to his workout room.

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Best of Seattle 2010: Matt Westervelt

Best Anarchist Criminal Parasite

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Opening Nights: Romeo and Juliet

Gonads gone gaga, al fresco.

As Mama Nadi, Portia plays all parties to her own interest.

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Ruined: Horror in the Woods

Intiman’s new leader reprises a proven, Pulitzer-winning drama.

Friedman holds the gun. Hunt plays the target.

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Shot Full of Holes

Pop feminism isn’t the only target in ACT’s venomous English farce.

Toms (left) plays the protégé to Crook’s flawed Dr. Larch.

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Opening Nights: The Cider House Rules, Part One

Book-It reprises its first big hit.

Burgess as the neurotically upbeat Father Doherty.

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Opening Nights: Angels Fall

The Lanford Wilson play is shaky, but the acting is never less than a pleasure.

A bumpy ride: Danneker and Chisholm.

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Opening Nights: The 13th of Paris

Getting the difference between schmaltzy and winsome.

Irvin and Stetler, basting at ACT.

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Prodigious playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote’s death last year inspired renewed interest

Prodigious playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote’s death last year inspired renewed interest in his earnest work. Cynics may…

Opening Nights: Pterodactyls

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Opening Nights: Pterodactyls

Watch a Philadelphia family disintegrate.

Tavares gets fashion advice from Hoffer.

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Opening Nights: Henry V

Camelot goes Mad Men, but it lacks heart.