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Articles by Kevin Phinney
Don't date him! He's evil! Hsieh (left) as Ming, with Cushman as Robert.
Opening Nights: A Language of Their Own
By Kevin Phinney • April 24, 2012 12:00 am

Gay romance gone bad.

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Muirhead as one of the overbearing prospective mothers-in-law.
Opening Nights: It Shoulda Been You
By Kevin Phinney • April 17, 2012 12:00 am

Dowdy dialogue straight out of the playwright’s primer.

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Ankrim and Karbacz meet cute.
Opening Nights: First Date
By Kevin Phinney • April 3, 2012 12:00 am

This world-premiere musical never seems anything but authentic.

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Matthews and Nahm amid the mess.
Opening Nights: Stuck
By Kevin Phinney • March 27, 2012 12:00 am

A bathroom as a metaphor for baggage.

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Daisey before the fall.
The Foxconn Con
By Kevin Phinney • March 21, 2012 12:00 am

After giving a rave to Mike Daisey’s Apple take-down last year, a critic reconsiders his opinion.

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Just like old times? Rowe (left) and Pratt share Seattle memories.
Opening Nights: Emerald City
By Kevin Phinney • March 20, 2012 12:00 am

Learning Seattle’s codes.

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Taylor (in foreground), before Eliza's makeover.
Opening Nights: Pygmalion
By Kevin Phinney • February 28, 2012 12:00 am

Seattle Shakes gets everything right.

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Garrison's heroine plays back an unreliable history.
Opening Nights: I Am My Own Wife
By Kevin Phinney • February 14, 2012 12:00 am

Contradictions and shadowy truths in Nick Garrison’s flawless performance.

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Jen Nelson and Todd Hull are among the large Cocktails cast.
Stage: Four Sheets to the Wind
By Kevin Phinney • February 7, 2012 12:00 am

Get tipsy before seeing Cocktails at the Centre of the Earth.

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Phone buddies Sumpter, el-Gasseir, Nako, and Andriessen.
Opening Nights: The Callers
By Kevin Phinney • January 24, 2012 12:00 am

A musical take on phone-sex work.

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From left: Noah Luce, Barry Cogswell, Jeremy Behrens amid the Mormon murk.
Opening Nights: The Mormon Bird Play
By Kevin Phinney • November 8, 2011 12:00 am

In which grown men play pubescent girls.

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CB (Goldstein) questions the appeal of skanky Marcie (Hill).
Stage: An Unwelcome Update on the Peanuts Gang
By Kevin Phinney • October 18, 2011 12:00 am

The Peanuts gang cast off their innocence, and charm, as teenage waste-cases.

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Pisoni takes us inside the ring.
Opening Nights: Humor Abuse
By Kevin Phinney • October 11, 2011 12:00 am

The story of a life in the circus, with more showmanship than show.

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Fabulous farm boy Smith-Stewart.
Opening Nights: MilkMilk Lemonade
By Kevin Phinney • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

A surreal tale of two Southern boys, one blatant, one latent.

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Foubert and Platz as stranded travelers.
Opening Nights: September Skies
By Kevin Phinney • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

A fateful hook-up on 9/11 eve.

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The playwright (Yim, left) and his disapproving dad (Henry Vu).
Opening Nights: Yellow Face
By Kevin Phinney • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

A semi-autobiographical, semi-farcical look at theater and race.

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No sand in their pants: From left, Gonzales, Iglehart, Keenan-Bolger, Jacobs, and O'Neill.
Rubbing for Dollars
By Kevin Phinney • July 26, 2011 12:00 am

Disney’s new Aladdin adaptation doesn’t need Broadway to be profitable.

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Scott Shoemaker, in the first of his two Cloud roles.
Opening Nights: Cloud Nine
By Kevin Phinney • July 19, 2011 12:00 am

Caryl Churchill’s gender-bending–well, everything-bending–is entrancing and utterly daft.

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Cast members Aaron Allhouse (left) and Nathan Pringle embrace the silly.
Opening Nights: Arrh! . . . A Dinosaur...
By Kevin Phinney • July 12, 2011 12:00 am

Kids will love it, though–or perhaps because–it’s nonsense.

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The Gene Pool's worried mothers (Meckler, left, and Carey), with their dad-curious son (Johnson).
Opening Nights: The Gene Pool
By Kevin Phinney • June 14, 2011 12:00 am

Well-intentioned caricatures instead of characters make this a shallow pool indeed.

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