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Up From the Galley

He’s got crab legs, and he’s ready to pick up suburban trash.

Molly Tomhave as the Hairy Baby’s mother.

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The Wright Guard

Playwrights remain theater’s long-suffering heroes.

Swenson in action:last show at the Chamber?

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Found and Out

A look inside the Hill’s theaters-that-aren’t-theaters.

Hashing it out over Chinese food in Fathers and Sons.

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Stage Goes Black

A look at the Hansberry Project, ACT’s 3-year-old African-American play series.

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Wild Hair: an Evening of Improvisation

I first saw Christian Swenson perform about 20 years ago, and I’d like to say that he’s as…

Esbjornson (left) and Sher: Looking past Seattle.

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The Long Goodbyes

Here’s a pair of predictions I wouldn’t have made a year ago: that Bartlett Sher, the artistic director…

Open Circle on the move. (Here, cast members of Ghost Sonata.)

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Evicting the Arts

Capitol Hill’s scene didn’t have to be hit so hard, so fast.

Tagaban at SCT: Strength and stillness.

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Spirit Reacher

Connecting with kids and, this storyteller hopes, the Dalai Lama.

The Cook at the Rep, where it got fully baked.

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Feels Like the First Time

Theaters fetishize world premieres—and lose interest if they can’t be first to produce a show.

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Cabaret

Nick Garrison adds another character to his rogues’ gallery

Connor: Mistakes were made.

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Art of the Screw-Up

Sometimes you really do break a leg.

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Mamma Mia!

For local actor Kittra Coomer, back in town now with the touring production of the Abba jukebox musical…

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The Habit

A ‘90s comedy troupe regroups

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Popcorn at the Paramount?

Used to be you played by a different set of rules at the theater.

Color me rad: Ilkhom’s White White Black Stork.

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America Has Never Taken Particularly Well to Political Theater

But we've got two chances to see it done well.

Morrison attempts to enforce the “no-twitching” rule.

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Time to Go Solo

Everyone else is doing it.

Piggee (left) as the swain in Mame.

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The Smile Inside

Timothy McCuen Piggee has made you laugh at just about every room in town.

A god, a saint, a throne: Lazzara pining.

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Fringe’s Patron Saint

Who knew “meowing” could balance the budget?

Manning, in her seemingly immortal role.

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Caveman and Catechism May Not Be Great

But they've been doing it right for years.

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How Theater Failed America

A theater pro examines, and implicates, his own world