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THEATER REVIEW: OPERATION EPSILON
Can’t wait another minute to tell you about the Nora Theatre Company’s absorbing world premiere production of OPERATION EPSILON by Alan Brody– the true tale of the top ten nuclear scientists in Nazi Germany
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THEATER: INVISIBLE MAN
Begin the new year by seeing the powerful, complex, vividly staged and imagined INVISIBLE MAN. Ralph Ellison’s towering novel of a black man’s struggle for identity has been brilliantly adapted for the stage by
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THEATER REVIEW: BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
The political scene is running red as we inch on up to election eve. So the Boston Premiere of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON at SpeakEasy Stage Company is timely– a rock musical about our
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THEATER REVIEW: WAR HORSE
There’s a thrilling moment near the beginning of WAR HORSE, where a young colt disappears from the stage, and in its place, suddenly blazing into view, is a magnificent full-sized thoroughbred. I swear it’s
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THEATER REVIEW: THE KITE RUNNER
If you read and liked the 2003 best seller by Khaled Hosseini- you’ll recognize the slavishly reproduced play: New Rep’s season opener THE KITE RUNNER. Though I’m told it’s faithful, the life has apparently
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THEATER REVIEW: BILLY ELLIOT
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated– and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it
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THEATER REVIEW: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Planning the weekend? Don’t rule out LA CAGE AUX FOLLES now playing at Boston’s Shubert Theatre until December 18!! Even though star George Hamilton cannot sing, dance, or act, the man generates such debonair
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THEATER REVIEW: HIGH
Kathleen Turner has opened her national tour of HIGH at Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre (December 6-11)! Just in time for the holidays, HIGH is your basic homosexual, drug-dealing prostitute meets foul-mouthed, recovering alcoholic nun
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THEATER REVIEW: TINY KUSHNER
Now at the BCA’s Plaza Black Box Theatre Zeitgeist Stage is presenting the East Coast premiere of five short plays by Tony Kushner called TINY KUSHNER. If only the plays were as succinct as
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THEATER REVIEW: WOMEN OF WILL
Tina Packer’s tour de force WOMEN OF WILL : THE OVERVIEW is now playing at the Central Square Theater presented by The Nora Theatre Company! “WOMEN OF WILL.” is an exploration of Shakespeare’s art
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