Lovell Estell III

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Gem of the Ocean

August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the 20th-century African-American experience is one of the great achievements in dramatic literature. Gem of the Ocean...
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The Other Kennedy

Few families have commanded more public fascination — or newsprint — than the Kennedy clan. In his engaging character study, Brian Lee Franklin cons...
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Two Trains Running

The seventh of 10 plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicles 100 years of African-American history, this production, which runs well over three hours, is o...

Two Trains Running

The seventh of 10 plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicles 100 years of African-American history, this production, which runs well over three hours, is o...
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M. Butterfly

David Henry Hwang’s 1988 drama receives a fine staging by director Derek Charles Livingston. Hwang artfully blends the story of Puccini’s Madama But...
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Asleep on a Bicycle

Asleep on a Bicycle is Tony Foster’s humorous journey into a dreamscape world where nothing is as it seems. Linda (Gina Garrison) is lying asleep, but thi...
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Red Scare on Sunset

Charles Busch’s raucous political farce takes place during the 1950s, when paranoia over the “Commie menace” was bearing down on American soci...
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Fucking Hollywood

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to update a classic. Such is the case with Paul Wagar’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, which cause...
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Respect: The Girl Em-Powered Musical

Respect is an engaging and fun mix of music, song, theatrical shtick. Dorothy Marcic's script is based on her book, Respect: Women and Popular Music, and wittily broaches core feminist issues — sans sledgehammer — along with issues of love, family, heartbreak and relationship angst. It's also a fascinating historical......
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Body Politic

Jessica Goldberg's thought-provoking drama explores the ugly cost of our war in Iraq, opening with a short but haunting scene at Walter Reed Hospital, where...