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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And one Big Surprise in the audience … The Golden Smile While struggling to write a play, five mental patients battle their demons with theater through vulgarity, sarcasm, and song. Show  Info: Thu Feb 18, 2016 | 8:50PM Sun Feb 21, 2016 | 6:50PM Wed Feb 24, 2016 | 10:30PM Wed ... Read The Full Article...

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Mental disorder is a prickly theme for a comedian, at once courting a humane sympathetic response all but extinguishing of levity, while summoning a degraded, inhumane call for ridicule – an entirely viler form of laughter. As a chosen topic it is demanding, requiring skillful handling, but there are some who seem qualified to do ... Read The Full Article...

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charlotte

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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  There’s not too much that’s quiet about Pat Kinevane’s performance in his self-authored, one man play, Silent, now playing at the Donaghy Theatre in the Irish Arts Center. This is a piece that has shown some legs since it’s development through 2010 and performances in 2011, when it won prizes at the Edinburgh Fringe ... Read The Full Article...

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What if you had done something not necessarily evil, but very disturbing?  Enough to make you an outcast in society?   Hot Steams explores the lives of two imprisoned men who are mentally brilliant but socially inept. We first meet The Man Awake (played by Zach Wegner), who has been in his cell awhile, as he writes in ... Read The Full Article...

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