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Scott Shoemaker, in the first of his two Cloud roles.

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Opening Nights: Cloud Nine

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

Cast members Aaron Allhouse (left) and Nathan Pringle embrace the silly.

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Opening Nights: Arrh! . . . A Dinosaur Ate My Spaceship

Kids will love it, though--or perhaps because--it's nonsense.

The Gene Pool's worried mothers (Meckler, left, and Carey), with their dad-curious son (Johnson).

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Opening Nights: The Gene Pool

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

Patten amid Benington’s excellent scenery.

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Opening Nights: O Lovely Glowworm

A goat fantasia from New Century Theatre Company.

Hicks in person was seldom so restrained.

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Questions From the Grave

Seventeen years after his death, Bill Hicks still has no comedy heirs. How come?

Cooper (right) and Jackson debate who's to blame.

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Opening Nights: All My Sons

A switch from white to black adds a powerful new dimension to Arthur Miller's play.

The old-school editor (Belyea) watches his reporter (Roberts) drift to the right.

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Opening Nights: Hardball

The birth of the conservative blow-up doll.

Designed by Mark Wendland, the scaffolding is a star, too.

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Opening Nights: Next to Normal

The best rock opera since Tommy.

Jennifer Sue Johnson as Joanne, Cayman Ilika as Kathy, and Billie Wildrick as Mary.

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Opening Nights: Vanities

Boomer nostalgia and classic pop-craft.

Sell, sell, sell! From left: Franklin, Mukhalian, and Abramson.

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Opening Nights: Babs the Dodo

It's hard out there for a spokesperson.

Brown, Welch, and Miller (left to right) in a kinship battle.

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Opening Nights: The Brothers Size

A riveting exploration of fraternal bonds, set in New Orleans.

Hallum has his singing stopped with a bar of soap.

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Opening Nights: A Christmas Story: The Musical!

A future holiday hit in chrysalis, thanks in part to its sixth-grade star.

Hallum (right) with Bolton as his father.

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Half-Pint Poise

A new holiday musical is built around a sixth-grader from Olympia.

Hair Tour

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Pretty Old Thing

The new, touring Hair is a tame and easy-on-the-eyes tribute to a lost era.

Weagant as Nan-struck Chloe.

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Opening Nights: Vestal Virgins

What'd happen if Lifetime and Comedy Central had a baby.

Cash and consequences.

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Opening Nights: Money Changes Everything

A heist tale better suited to TV.

Better dancers than hosts.

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Stage Review: It’s a Salon!

An invitation you should decline.

Briskman as Lederer.

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Opening Nights: The Lady With All the Answers

A somnambulant play about a plucky gal.

Mijatov, Dietz, and Tagavilla.

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Stage Review: Clubfoot

Tales from the back of an ambulance.

Williams (left) squares off against Coates.

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Pageant Play: Kindergarten Tarts

A Texas-sized sitcom.