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2009 Stories by Neal Weaver

• A Vegas Holiday! Songs From "Live at the Sahara"

  published December 24, 2009

  When Jake Broder and Vanessa Claire Smith first assumed the roles of Louis Prima and Keely Smith in a recreation of their Las Vegas lounge act... More >>

• Extinction

  published December 3, 2009

  Gabe McKinley’s play begins as a fast, funny, hip buddy comedy but grows steadily darker. Fast-talking hedonist and prosperous businessman... More >>

• Love's Labour's Lost

  published November 26, 2009

  London’s distinguished Globe Theatre lives up to its reputation with this traditional but resolutely un-stodgy production. Director Dominic... More >>

• No Man's Land

  published November 5, 2009

  When Harold Pinter’s drama was first produced at Britain’s National Theatre in 1975, it was a star vehicle, offering virtuoso acting by... More >>

• Chesapeake

  published October 22, 2009

  There’s much to enjoy in Lee Blessing’s philosophic monodrama — so long as you don’t expect too much logic and credibility.... More >>

• Naked Boys Singing

  published October 1, 2009

  When this musical, written and directed by Robert Schrock, debuted at the Celebration Theatre in 1998, it was the first show to acknowledge... More >>

• Naked Boys Singing

  published October 1, 2009

  When this musical, written and directed by Robert Schrock, debuted at the Celebration Theatre in 1998, it was the first show to acknowledge... More >>

• The Matchmaker

  published September 17, 2009

  When playwright Thornton Wilder lifted the character Frosine from Molière's iThe Miser, and transplanted her in his adaptation of a... More >>

• Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins

  published August 27, 2009

  The title of Brian Christopher Williams' play suggests a slick, sassy gay comedy, and so it is — but it is much more than that, something far... More >>

• Life Could Be a Dream

  published August 13, 2009

  This affectionate doo-wop jukebox musical by writer-director Roger Bean (The Marvelous Wonderettes), with clever choreography by Lee... More >>

• Closer Than Ever

  published August 13, 2009

  This musical revue is a compendium of 23 numbers by Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire (Big and Baby), directed by Chil Kong, with crisp and... More >>

• The Miser

  published August 6, 2009

  Director Ellen Geer delivers a hilarious and highly polished production of Molière’s comedy, The Miser. It’s a faithful... More >>

• Cymbeline the Puppet King

  published July 30, 2009

  Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a natural for adaptation as children’s theater since it shares many plot elements of Snow White and... More >>

• Search and Destroy

  published July 16, 2009

  Howard Korder’s play begins like a mildly absurdist comedy about a feckless, dunderhead Florida ice-show promoter, Martin Merkheimer (Brian... More >>

• Equus

  published July 9, 2009

  Director–set designer August Viverito and his colleagues have mastered the art of clarity and intensity when working in a tiny space such as... More >>

• The Cherry Orchard

  published July 2, 2009

  In 1950, writer-director Josh Logan transferred Chekhov’s play to the American South in an adaptation called The Wisteria Trees. Now,... More >>

• Godspell

  published June 25, 2009

  This 1971 musical, conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, with music and lyrics by Steven Schwartz, is a sort of anti-Hair. That 1967 show... More >>

• Breaking the Code

  published June 4, 2009

  Brilliant, eccentric mathematician Alan Turing (Sam R. Ross) did vital work for British intelligence during World War II, breaking the Nazi Enigma... More >>

• The Crucible

  published May 14, 2009

  In the days of HUAC and Senator Joseph McCarthy, when it was dangerous for any left-leaning writer to criticize government actions, playwright... More >>

• The Rehearsal

  published May 7, 2009

  In French dramatist Jean Anouilh's scintillating 1958 play, The Rehearsal, a group of amateur thespians rehearses a production of Marivaux's... More >>

• Stick Fly

  published April 16, 2009

  Lydia R. Diamond's scintillating comedy Stick Fly is set in the elegant and expensive summer home (gorgeously designed by John Iacovelli)... More >>

• Mauritius

  published April 9, 2009

  Theresa Rebeck's play has serious moments, but it's essentially a comic crime caper full of lies, betrayals, cupidity and greed. The central... More >>

• Ghosts

  published March 26, 2009

  There's nothing supernatural about Henrik Ibsen's 1881 drama: His ghosts are our own bitter memories and the old, dead ideas that continue to... More >>

• The Mystery of Irma Vep

  published March 19, 2009

  Only the late Charles Ludlum, founding genius of NYC’s Ridiculous Theatre Company, could have combined so many hilariously affectionate... More >>

• Paradise Hotel

  published March 12, 2009

  The new Menander Theatre Company is off to a rousing start with a harum-scarum production of this classic French farce by Georges Feydeau, nimbly... More >>