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By John Thomason
A pilot sits in his makeshift "plane" — a repurposed wheelbarrow papered with a sparkly, hand-drawn military insignia. It's the opening... More >>
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By John Thomason
Parade Productions, South Florida's newest theater company, premiered its first show in Mizner Park last weekend, but signs indicated that even... More >>
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By John Thomason
Before The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity begins, two wrestlers for hire go through their motions in a ring onstage, writhing with pseudo-pain... More >>
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By John Thomason
In the Promethean's spirited revival of this '60s comedy by French playwright Marc Camoletti, a playboy architect named Bernard (Matthew William... More >>
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By John Thomason
Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on... More >>
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By John Thomason
For what it's worth, Infinite Abyss' production of Snow White Trash delivers exactly what you would expect from its title. Problem is, it's not... More >>
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By John Thomason
If there had been an Occupy movement in post-World War II America, the fictional character Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's All My Sons would have... More >>
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By John Thomason
The miniature locker room off to one side of Mosaic Theatre's stage looks every bit like a museum piece, festooned with Super Bowl pennants, Green... More >>
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By John Thomason
Ben Joseph, the lead character in the Caldwell Theatre's After the Revolution, is a fascinating specimen. An academic, dyed-in-the-wool socialist... More >>
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By John Thomason
The Women's Theatre Project's episodic world premiere of Women Drivers explores the harried life of a driving instructor, Erin (Pilar Uribe), and... More >>
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By John Thomason
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported that the the Infinite Abyss company changed the age of the lead character in... More >>
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By John Thomason
Before the play even begins, the first thing you notice are the lights. They're everywhere: chicly mounted in foyer walls, hung from the ceiling,... More >>
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By John Thomason
As Bees in Honey Drown is a witty satire on the vagaries and temptations of fame in the late ‘90s, on the apparent necessity of personal... More >>
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By John Thomason
Song of the Living Dead is set in an apocalyptic world overrun by the walking dead, but it couldn't feel more alive. The zombies aren't one-note... More >>
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By John Thomason
Watching Todd Allen Durkin wend his way through a character as hefty and complex as his latest host body — a shell-shocked World War II... More >>
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By John Thomason
This posthumous world premiere by counterculture chronicler Ann Morrissette Davidon is an ambitious study of cultural oppression in a changing... More >>
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By John Thomason
This posthumous world premiere by counterculture chronicler Ann Morrissette Davidon is an ambitious study of cultural oppression in a changing... More >>
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By John Thomason
Back in 1929, there was no Hoarders. There was no Hoarding: Buried Alive, its sensationally titled cousin on TLC. But over several decades... More >>
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By John Thomason
From the very introduction of this year's "Summer Shorts" program, you know that change has finally come to an exhausted tradition. On a... More >>
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By John Thomason
Two old men sit on a back porch. They talk. They drink bourbon. One of them shoots down a ceiling fan. The other one thinks he's having a heart... More >>
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By John Thomason
The Music Man, Meredith Wilson's 1957 Tony winner about a traveling swindler who ignites a controversy in a fictional Iowa town, is an oddball... More >>
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By John Thomason
"May you be half an hour in Heaven before the Devil knows you're dead." — Irish proverb
On the rustic, ramshackle set of Martin McDonagh's... More >>
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By John Thomason
Apparently the only thing missing from all those great journalistic exposés of the Afghanistan war is a little surrealist whimsy, some... More >>
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By John Thomason
A lot can happen in one day, especially if the morning begins by getting wasted on a bottle of scotch. The three roommates in Theresa... More >>
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By John Thomason
It's hard to vomit convincingly onstage. Just ask Kim Ostrenko, who has to do it every show through May 15 at the Caldwell. Upchucking with... More >>
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By John Thomason
Of the many wonderful phrases turned in Stephen Belber's beautifully written Dusk Rings a Bell, one stands above the pack: the "artifice of... More >>
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By John Thomason
Like pornography, sexual addiction has probably been around ever since Adam removed Eve's fig leaf. But in some eyes, it's still not seen as a... More >>
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By John Thomason
Perhaps, if you've chosen a life of monastic celibacy or hermetic isolation, you may find nothing relatable in Dinner With Friends, currently... More >>
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By John Thomason
Was the new play Ghost-Writer really written by Michael Hollinger, as its credit states, or was it penned by Strunk and White? A grammarian's play... More >>
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By John Thomason
At first glance, the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens is among the films you would have least expected to be adapted into a Broadway musical, up... More >>
