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Jones as Rhoda: endless appetites.

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It’s Possible to Love Your Source Material Too Much

See Book-It's Rhoda: A Life in Stories for details.

Doing their jobs with relish: the ladies of Lysistrata.

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Two Feminist Retakes of Greek legend

One bitter, the other bawdy.

Bearers of bad baggage:Ryan and Crain.

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Two Misfits Tell Stories That Reveal and Conceal

Once upon a time, a lonely boy saves a mysterious girl from drowning. The mysterious girl—who insists she…

Kaminski as Corrie: literally transformed.

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Knot in My Name

A gutsy production that everyone opposed to it should see.

The game of love: Brown (left) and Olson.

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Rehashing Bashing

SPT makes insightful work of a gay love story/crime drama.

Divine performance: Handa and Plum.

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Dionysus in Crisis

The hapless women of Greek myth finally settle the score.

Bartley (left) and Dolginoff dialing "M" for murder musical.

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Blood, Lust, and Legacies

Two-man one-act plus five by Williams equals two must-sees.

Dark, Wry

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Dark, Wry

Thanks to a fantastic cast, desperate small-town lives burn onstage.

Cathey, left, and Point-Du Jour: Bye-bye peace of mind.

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Phantoms at Play

Black awakening at the Rep and orphan argot from Macha.

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Look Back in Languor

Pinter's bitter autopsy of an affair is betrayed by a lack of passion.

Stage Highlights

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Stage Highlights

SEPTEMBER 15 SOUL OF A WHORE Director Rob West has proved himself more than capable of handling this…

Morris (left) and Lazzara: more cousin-fucking jokes.

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Southern Decadence

Laughing at, not with, the Joe Dirt demographic.

Amy Fleetwood (far right) is invigorating as the truth-telling Dr. Stockmann.

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Never Too Much

Ibsen's frequently staged Enemy burns with new intensity in this smart production.

Good Company

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Good Company

An exhilarating production of Sondheim's pathbreaking concept musical.

Essandoh as Bigger Thomas,  in all his hellish complexity.

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Exposed

A revelatory performance of an American antihero.

Psychological minefields: the cast of The Lady From Dubuque.

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Grave Discomfort

The Rep's Albee revival is caustic and comic.

Suspicion in shades of gray: Brown and Chappell (l-r).

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No Doubt

Playwright John Patrick Shanley and director Warner Shook give Seattle Rep a sure hit.

Richter (front) and crew: Bon appetit!

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Cuisine/Art

A satirical history of food, seen from an imaginary future.

Paul Custodio goes for the scoop and finds a nightmare.

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Apocalypse Then

A play about war reporting aims for timeliness, and misses.

Detestable girl! But I require tea! Repep, left, and Lass, as Stoppard's Cecily and Gwendolyn.

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Smart for Smart’s Sake

Stoppard's whiplash word games raise questions about art and war.