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Opening Nights: An Iliad

It’s a complicated tale, and didacticism doesn’t help.

Bell (left) battles sibling Dooly

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Opening Nights: True West

Brother battles brother to a punk-rock beat.

The short scenes and sitcommy tropes are a hoot.

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Opening Nights: Ching Chong Chinaman

An (over)assimilated family begins to crumble.

The Gordons, holding themselves together at Intiman.

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Opening Nights: Paradise Lost

A Depression family struggles to hang together in Odets’ red-leaning drama.

Opening Nights: Two Gentlemen of Verona: Shakespeare Travels to SoCal

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Opening Nights: Two Gentlemen of Verona: Shakespeare Travels to SoCal

You know how it is when you’re into this one girl, but then your best friend starts going…

Opening Nights: Brooklyn Boy. Lazy and Airless, Though a Groupie Brings Some Sparkle

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Opening Nights: Brooklyn Boy. Lazy and Airless, Though a Groupie Brings Some Sparkle

I was hoping that there might be a little irony in the title of Donald Margulies’ 2004 play,…

Bound by coincidence: Derr (left) and Strickland in Herculina.

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Opening Nights: The Adventures of Herculina

A 19th-century picaresque about a she who's really a he.

Budge interrogates Higgins.

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Opening Nights: Trout Stanley

Two reclusive sisters show us the dark side of British Columbia.

Mixed couple Permann and Krouse.

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Opening Nights: Fat Pig

Would you let your friends’ ridicule force you to dump your girlfriend?

Opening Nights: The Violet Hour

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Opening Nights: The Violet Hour

A magic machine lets publishers see into the future. If only. . .

Candace Vance (front) and Jenny Cross ponder the afterlife.

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Opening Nights: The Great Divorce

A bus stop takes you to heaven or hell in C.S. Lewis’ allegory.

Thone (center) and company: Schtickiness.

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Stage Review: Speech and Debate

Sex scandals in Nerdland.

Bouchard and Corrado: Possibly more than a doctor-patient relationship.

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Stage Review: Two by Pinter

Opaque men meet haunted women.

Kaminski plays Electra as Lynndie England.

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Stage Review: Electra

Sophocles subdued.

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ArtAttack’s Seeing Myself Consumed

Rationed pleasures in a grouchy holiday meta-show.

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Balagan’s Death/Sex 2

Six 10-minute holiday shows with a kick.

Humiliation’s put to good use in Twelfth Night.

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Seattle Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Like Valentine’s Day in December.

The gates of Campville, at Annex.

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Stage: Penguins, Episode 1

Scot Augustson’s campy nun-noir rounds out Annex’s comic triple bill.

Haugen (at rear) tells Heald how history shall be written.

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Stage Review: Bombs and Quills at the Rep

Ordered to write propaganda, Shakespeare turns against his perfidious masters.

Rauch explores dishonest questions.

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Stage: Shakespeare in Trouble

The Rep’s new Elizabethan thriller.