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Ride 'em, Harry! "Equus" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" reviewed--with video....
Payday for Tony Kushner Who profits when big-name artists win big-money prizes?...
Did Someone Mess with My Calendar? Because it doesn't look like April 1, and Variety's talking about American Psycho, the musical...
Fringe Versus Mainstream The latest Bay Area Theatre Salon combines eating and drinking with heated discussion about fringe theatre...
Revolutionary bore "A Tale of Two Cities," Cape May Stage and the East Lynne Theater Company, reviewed...
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Excuse my dust A drama critic returns to the road....
I Went to Broadway and All I Got Was This Lousy Show Why it's not even fun to make fun of Broadway anymore....
Doing Time A new piece by the Erika Shuch Performance Project makes me want to destroy all clocks...
Go: the captivating asteroid king Paul Lazar ....in playwright-poet Mac Wellman's "1965UU" (based on a story from his "Chronicles of The Madness of Small Worlds")...
Fringe Binge Another zany night out at the San Francisco Fringe...
Into the woods (again) Hartford Stage's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the York Theatre Company's "Enter Laughing," reviewed....
On Being A Muse Yay! People are doing something with my work other than using it to line the cat box...
School's Out Itamar Moses' new play puts high school politics centre stage...
Film People Hit And Miss at LA Opera David Cronenberg and Woody Allen pop their operatic cherries in LA...
The Fringe At Two Extremes Two very different boy-meets-girl-themed shows demonstrate the Fringe experience par excellence...
A bitter pill, candy-coated American Players Theatre's "Widowers' Houses" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" reviewed....
Tackling the Fringe The San Francisco Fringe Festival starts today. How to tame the beast?...