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There’s nothing new about a story where a prostitute gets paid just to talk.  It’s a long-standing plot device –  putting a well meaning hooker with a heart of gold in a position where she’s expected to be equal parts sex kitten, psychiatrist and mother confessor.  However, playwright Ryan Sprague offers up this device to ... Read The Full Article...

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The idea behind Megan O’Leary‘s play Charlotte the Destroyer is at once intellectually brilliant and artistically fecund. An author of a series of successful children’s stories featuring the character of a a young girl, Charlotte, elects to write a novel in which her youthful star will grow up. She chooses to do so, however, at ... Read The Full Article...

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SOMETHING WICKED

Anaïs Koivisto’s Something Wicked, produced by the Everyday Inferno Theatre Company as part of this year’s Frigid New York Festival, consists almost entirely of original lines from Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, cropped and re-arranged in deconstructed collage form to explore, in a very modern way, the character and motivations of its notorious anti-heroine, Lady Macbeth. Academically of ... Read The Full Article...

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There’s something immediately audacious and comical about compressing a voluminous turn of the century literary oeuvre into a one hour performance piece. When said performance is delivered by just two actors, deploying only a hat and a scarf as props, the ante rises significantly. As does the challenge. Such is the project Carrie Brown and ... Read The Full Article...

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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl Production Company: Ginger Galore Productions Rebecca Perry’s award-winning one-woman “show-sical”(“4 STAR Performer”, CBC Canada) for the graduate in all of us. Stuck paying off debt, feisty little Joanie makes the most out her barista job by reporting ... Read The Full Article...

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FINAL DJ

Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? I-DJ Dance Club DJ by Night – Shakesqueer actor by Day Production Company: Overtime Theater & The Woodlawn Theatre Show Times: Wed 2/19 @ 5:30PM Sat 22 @ 6:50PM Sun 23 @ 2:05PM Mon 24 @ 10:15PM Tues 25 @ 7:05PM Answers by Gregg ... Read The Full Article...

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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Questions of the Heart: Gay Mormons and the Search for Identity Ben, a straight Mormon guy caught in the middle between his church and his many close gay friends, attempts to understand the intersection of religious faith and sexual identity by interviewing gay ... Read The Full Article...

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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Almost A Genius Maria Wojciechowski suffers from bipolar disorder and panic attacks, so she did what any other crazy person would do, she wrote a comedy show about it. In ALMOST A GENIUS, Maria invites you into her mind through storytelling, music, dance, ... Read The Full Article...

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eyes

Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? The Eyes of Orbach “Jerry Orbach gave his heart and soul to acting and the gift of sight to two New Yorkers.” What if those two New Yorkers fell in love? Celebrate all things NYC, from Dan Smith to Dr. Zizmor, in this ... Read The Full Article...

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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? A Date for the Evening Produced by Celestial Zenith A Date for the Evening written and performed by Celestial Zenith, directed and choreographed by Shannon Stowe. One woman in the course of an evening takes on speed dating, struggling to connect with anyone ... Read The Full Article...

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Petunia and Chicken

Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Petunia and Chicken Production Company: Animal Engine A two person turn of the century epic prairie love story based on the works of Willa Cather. Show Times: Thus 2/20 @ 7:05 Mon 2/24 @ 8:40 Mon 3/3 @ 10:15 Thurs 3/6 @ 8:40 ... Read The Full Article...

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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Yelling at Bananas in Whole Foods Organic. Raw. Vegan. Local. Gluten-free. Free range. Hormone-free… STOP THE INSANITY! After a chance meeting with a 1990s infomercial health guru, Dan radically changes his relationship with the food he consumes. But will his journey into the ... Read The Full Article...

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