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Age Out featuring Seated L-R, Nicholas John Mazza, Peter Welch, Bob Homeyer, Oliver Thrun Standing L-R, Michael Wetherbee, Patrick Pizzolorusso (Photo by Peter Welch)

There are a million stories in this city.  But really, when you come right down to it – there are just about five stories that we have to tell each other at the end of a long day.  There are the stories about fighting with our significant other, the stories about getting stabbed in the ... Read The Full Article...

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Liz Duffy Adams (photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey)

It’s no secret that as far as Theatre Ensembles go, Flux is one of my very favorites.  Consistently turning out quality work that never fails to leave audiences utterly captivated and amazed, they set the off-off Broadway bar very high – only to sail over it with each successive production.  I’m always expectant when I know ... Read The Full Article...

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Cindy Murphy

Back in the ’90s when Ricki Lake had her talk show and was pretty much at the height of her career (if she only knew it then!) it was kinda unavoidable for me to be compared to her – especially since she was still riding the coattails of her Hairspray fame (You should see me ... Read The Full Article...

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Connect Five photo by Suzi Sadler

We all want to feel deeply connected to someone else in a new way that surprises us.  How that connection comes about  - emotionally, physically, mentally or sexually – is actually secondary.  When that unexpected connection locks in there’s a heightened state of awareness that can overpower our conventional systems and methods, an allure that ... Read The Full Article...

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Night Song For The Boatman

The Happiest Medium Review by guest contributors Anjali Koppal and Saurabh Paranjape Nightsong For The Boatman, a new play by the late Jovanka Bach and brought to life as a loving tribute by her husband John Stark, is an odd creature. Ostensibly a modern take on the ancient Greek play ‘Alcestis’, Nightsong is a strangely ... Read The Full Article...

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A Wonderfully Flat Thing

Mark Twain’s short story A Fable gets a dazzling rebirth in A Wonderfully Flat Thing, when Manju Shandler (the artistic director who had previously designed masks and puppetry for The Lion King on Broadway) brings her creative talent to this small but charming production which appeals to everyone from age three and up.  The script ... Read The Full Article...

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Wendy MacLeod

Four writers plus one audience equals Connect Five – The Common Tongue’s evening of one-act plays which will be going on from January 5 – 16 at The Ars Nova Building.  The night brings together two emerging playwrights – Danny Mitarotondo (recipient of the Edward F. Albee Writing Fellowship) and Bronwen Prosser (Vital Theatre’s The ... Read The Full Article...

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Mummenschanz

When I was a little girl there was nothing I wanted to see more than Mummenschanz at the Bijou Theatre.  To me it appeared to be a magical, strange show that made no sense yet appealed to me in ways I couldn’t put into words.  Which was possibly the point, as Mummenschanz was a completely ... Read The Full Article...

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Wondering what to do with the last week of the year?  Maybe 2010 hasn’t been steamy enough for you and you need a little more sexiness before counting down to 2011?  If that sounds like your kinda heat – especially in this snowy weather, then get yourself to the  2010 BURLESQUE BLITZ!  For Four Nights Only (December ... Read The Full Article...

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My parents spent a great deal of money on my education. First they chose a strict parochial grammar school for 8 years, then I was sent off to an exclusive prep school for 4 years, and finally my education was capped off with a fancy private college. All this was done to ensure that I ... Read The Full Article...

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Anyone For A Swingin’ Threesome? is a trio of comedic One Act Plays put together by Just Ask Productions. I like One Act collections, and collections of short stories. Besides being short, I also like that – as collections – they are of different origins (even if by the same author) and that the world ... Read The Full Article...

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Don’t forget, boys and girls, that there is so much fun to be had at A VERY YOGA CHRISTMAS (3rd annual) you may not want to keep going for REAL CHRISTMAS.  Does REAL CHRISTMAS have Coach (the greatest rock band in the world?)  Mine doesn’t!  Does REAL CHRISTMAS have comedy and music and dark weirdness? ... Read The Full Article...

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