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2009 Stories by Amy Nicholson

• Baby It's You!

  published November 13, 2009

  Florence Greenberg (Meeghan Holaway) was a restless Passaic housewife with two nearly grown kids (Suzanne Petrela and Adam Irizarry) and a husband... More >>

• Bobby Bendon Gets By

  published October 8, 2009

  In an unnamed town in the Inland Empire, somewhere between the releases of Van Halen’s “1984” and “For Unlawful Carnal... More >>

• The Mystery of Irma Vep

  published October 1, 2009

  It’s been 18 years since this manor mystery was the No. 1–produced play in America, and it hasn’t worn out its welcome. In a... More >>

• Groundlings Space Camp

  published August 27, 2009

  Just when you thought it was safe to swear off laughing forever, the Groundlings have unleashed another solid show. Under Mikey Day's direction,... More >>

• Stop Kiss

  published July 23, 2009

  Manhattan traffic newscaster Callie (Deborah Puette) meets Sara (Kristina Harrison) the week the young, blond schoolteacher arrives in the city.... More >>

• Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame

  published July 9, 2009

  While R. Ernie Silva’s older brothers were doing hard drugs, he hid out in his room and watched Masterpiece Theatre. Silva wasn’t... More >>

• Ten Cent Night

  published July 2, 2009

  Marisa Wegrzyn’s Texas melodrama is as emotionally overloaded as a jukebox favorite. A country star and abusive father of two sets of twins... More >>

• Dirty Dancing — The Classic Story on Stage

  published May 21, 2009

  Blockbuster musicals based on blockbuster films are multiplying like viruses, but Dirty Dancing is different. Its approach to slapping film... More >>

• Strip

  published February 19, 2009

  In writer-director George Damian's self-described play about eight dancers at a gentlemen's club, the boundary between reality, dreams and theater... More >>

• Poor, Poor Lear

  published February 12, 2009

  In her one-woman Shakespeare show-within-a-show, Nina Sallinen nearly triples her age to play a 90-year-old Finnish diva, returning to the stage... More >>

• A Skull in Connemara

  published February 5, 2009

  Playwright Martin McDonagh -- a four-time Tony nominee -- is known for his rhythmic, ungrammatical dialogue and a worldview that's comic,... More >>

• Echo One-Act Festival

  published January 29, 2009

  The lion's share of this evening of six one-acts hews to a template: Two people — one drunk — hash out their diametrically opposed world... More >>