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McElhone and Branagh take a brief respite from hoofing and singing.

Film

Labor of like

A Shakespearean musical sweet to the eye but bland to the taste.

Posthumous work: Kevin Tighe as a grave digger in A Skull in Connemara.

Arts & Culture

Gravely mistaken

Martin McDonagh's new comedy hits pay dirt.

Arts & Culture

Straight shooting

A brilliant new one-man show by David Schmader takes on 'conversion therapy.'

Clowning around at Teatro Zinzanni.

Eat Drink Toke

No business like chow business

Dinner theater in Seattle isn't what you might expect.

Arts & Culture

Garden plot

Edward Albee's 1967 social satire still has plenty of sting.

Waiting for company: The Chairs.

Arts & Culture

Save me a seat

Intiman's new production of an absurdist classic is worth sitting through.

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High Marx

All this, and Groucho too? That's what I call entertainment.

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The ruling crass

If the truth be told, a lot of artists wish that our contemporary theater was more difficult and…

The 30-day novel

Arts & Culture

The 30-day novel

I'm typing as fast as I can!

Arts & Culture

Tiny malice

The Sedaris siblings tell a dark tale of passion in their new play.

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Light a single candle

Politics and the personal are inextricable in David Hare's masterful play.

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Three’s company

A sharp production of Noël Coward's unlikely romantic comedy.

All in the family: Jolyane Berg, front, does the Watusi.

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Southern inhospitality

A play written with contempt for its characters.

Girls on skates! Rounding the track in Rain City Rollers.

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Derby days

Nikki Appino's newest spectacle puts a new spin on the myth of Orpheus.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Arts & Culture

The Millennium Musical

How did this show land on the Rep's stage?

Psychic or psycho? Savages is too little of either.

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Poetastry in emotion

Taking fuzzy aim at an obscure target.

Twelve-year-old Harry Jamieson plays the formidable King Lear.

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The boy who would be king

A new version of King Lear provides plenty of spectacle but little else.

Megan Coleas Vivian Bearing: refusal to submit.

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Making it look easy

A loving production of Martha Edson's new play.

ACT does Miller's The Crucible proud.

Arts & Culture

Theater, 1999

While the best theater of 1999 may have been happening on the streets during the WTO protests, it…

The jolly giant: Novelist G.K. Chesterton writes with cake-and-ale conviviality.

Arts & Culture

The Annotated Thursday

A classic novel mixes swagger, swordplay, and serious philosophical debate.