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Perez Hilton writers check out their show at Landless

May 18, 2010 By 4 Comments

There they were on Saturday, May 15th laughing so loud that I thought they were two sloshed guys who wandered into the DCAC, but they were Randy Blair and Timothy Michael Drucker, who co-wrote the book (Randy also wrote the lyrics) to Landless Theatre’s latest outrageous musical Perez Hilton Saves The Universe! (or at least the greater Los Angeles area) and they were seeing their show for the first time. [Read more...]

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Gabriel

May 18, 2010 By 2 Comments

The Atlantic Theatre Company has borrowed from the past and come up with a British play circa 1997 called Gabriel by Moira Buffini.  It’s a play set in a dimly remembered moment in British history when the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands, one of which, Guernsey, is the play’s setting. [Read more...]

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Blackbird

May 18, 2010 By 1 Comment

Call it a taboo love story, call it child molestation. However you feel about the subject matter of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, Everyman Theatre’s production is 90 minutes of nail-biting, heart-flipping perfection.

Director Derek Goldman finds the all too-human complexities and unsettling truths in the story of a charged reunion between a young woman named Una (Megan Anderson) and Ray (David Parkes), who was her 40-year-old lover when she was 12. [Read more...]

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The Comedy of Errors … at Colonus?

May 18, 2010 By 1 Comment

If only your reviewer wrote as rapidly as Lumina’s astoundingly accomplished young performers declaim poetry, verse (and  reverse) and verbal pyrotechnics by, and in the manner of Sophocles and Shakespeare, this review would be a stream-of-consciousness critique chock-a-block with tropes, [Read more...]

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Love, Linda – The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter

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If you are the type of theatre lover who has a copy of every recording of every Cole Porter musical and every biography of the man who gave us “Anything Goes,” “Kiss Me, Kate” and “High Society” – not to mention “I Love Paris,” “What Is This Thing Called Love?” and “In the Still of the Night” – then you need to add this disc to feed your completism. [Read more...]

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Stephanie D’Abruzzo – from Avenue Q to Knuffle Bunny

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Stephanie D’Abruzzo on playing the loveable Trixie
in The Kennedy Center’s Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical

Stephanie D’Abruzzo is one of the most talented performers on this earth. Most theatergoers know her as Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q. Kids of all ages know her from her many appearances on “Sesame Street”, and now hundreds of children and their parents are laughing their heads off [Read more...]

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