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Furst (left) and Sharples:Illing and interrupting.

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Familial Bruising

In recovery from being a mother’s daughter.

Russell (left) and Warren having an enjoyable meltdownin Big Love.

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Sinking Into Strange Lands

Ancient and modern co-ride in two Cap Hill productions.

Numrich (left) and McGiver, with secret weapon.

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Loosening the Bow

Flawed as the gods, the Rep’s Trojan War drama is also as intermittently stunning.

Samuels and Brothers: a slow-bubbling stew.

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Half-Laughs

A bathtub-gin buzz and clichéd corporate critique in two new feminist fringe productions.

Getting his Rocky Horror on: Cabaret’s Garrison in the center.

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The Pain Remains

Two standbys of Holocaust drama get slick but effective revivals.

Quizzically peering and pleasingly nasal: Kling and Perrin.

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Wreckage and Knifeplay

A road accident inspires an evening of storytelling at Seattle Rep; the personal meets the political at ACT.

Good-ish: Clairmont (as the Friar) and Strickland.

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Overgrown Kids

Youthful enthusiasm marks Balagan's ambitiously conceived Shakespeare.

Sisto’s performance is a breath of foul air.

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A Less-Genteel Molière in This Effusive Rep Production

The crude fun is cranked up to 11.

Jones and Skrincosky: a nicely flashy ride.

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Whistle Down the Wind:Rousing Tunes and a Gloppy Story

Broadway, don't hold your breath.

From left: Guevara, Pimentel, Murtadha—tasty mix.

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The Cook Is a Moving Tale of Cuban Fidelity

Machado keeps his focus and the Rep redeems the rest.

Estridge as the Witch.

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The 5th’s Into the Woods Is Splendidly Wacked

Don't miss the muddled half-measure.

Groshong, hamming to excess in Act. 2.

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Balagan Keeps Pointed Madness Alive Beneath Capitol Hill’s New Swank

Can edge-dwelling theater survive on Capitol Hill when condos cost $800,000 and the loading dock where Empty Space…

All the money’s onstage at ACT’s high-style hen party.

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Bad Behavior

Assassinations, character and otherwise, at the Rep and at ACT.

Frank X, as Malvolio, casts his shadow.

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Esbjornson’s Twelfe Night Has an Eerie Beauty

But it could use a jolt.

Quaid (as Falstaff) “seducing” Kennedy (as Mrs. Ford).

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Lone Star Love: Fat Man on a Little Stool

It's got an hour of solid entertainment. Too bad the show is two and a half hours.

Lone Star Love: Fat Man on a Little Stool

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Lone Star Love: Fat Man on a Little Stool

It's got an hour of solid entertainment. Too bad the show is two and a half hours.

There’s no one to blame among the Noones.

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Ambitious as Ever, Craig Lucas Tackles All That Ails American Society

He should’ve left a few items off the menu.

Mathis and Nelson: ranting and lunging.

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A Harshly Funny Uncle Vanya Stings

The gravest danger to this production is in the audience, not among the skillful ensemble onstage.

Weird, freighted chaos: the Antrobus clan.

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Intiman’s The Skin of Our Teeth Rips Off Propriety’s Mask

Thornton Wilder was not a homespun regular guy but the weirdest great U.S. playwright. And The Skin of…

Shay and Kain: antitheses from scene to scene.

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The Suns of August

Even the flaws are useful in the Rep's 10th Wilson staging.