Lovell Estell III

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Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant

Lovell Estell III
This latest addition to Phil Olson's goofy Don't Hug Me musicals offers its share of wholesome humor (think Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on steroids). And like all the others, the play is set in Bunyan County, Minnesota, where the proprietors of the local bar, Gunner and Clara (Patrick Foley and......
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Iris

Lovell Estell III
This latest offering from Cirque du Soleil is a dazzling homage to the cinematic arts. It will have a permanent home at the Kodak Theatre, which has undergone an extensive renovation to accommodate the show, directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé with an 18-member creative team. The spectacle is part......
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I Love Lucy® Live on Stage

Lovell Estell III
If you're an I Love Lucy fan, this is your moment. The show, based on the TV series that still runs in syndication 60 years after its debut, takes audience members back to Desilu studio during the 1950s, where the audience sits in on a "live" television taping of two......
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The Pitchfork Disney

Lovell Estell III
Presley and Haley Stray (West Perkinson, Allison Bennett) are 28-year-old twins whose existence in a decrepit London consists mostly of foraging for food — mainly chocolate — and occasionally glimpsing, through a window (perhaps playwright Philip Ridley's nod to Samuel Beckett's Endgame), a world that presumably has been decimated by......
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Romeo & Juliet

Lovell Estell III
Director Denise Devin is having quite a run staging abridged versions of the classics over at Zombie Joe's. Not long ago, there was a hilarious version of Hamlet, cum vampires and zombies, and then an equally entertaining version of Tartuffe — turbo-injected. Now comes the Bard's timeless fable of bickering......
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Beau Jest

Lovell Estell III
So what's an attractive Jewish girl supposed to do when she's dating a man who's a gentile but doesn't want her parents to know about it? The solution to that dilemma provides ample comic fodder in James Sherman's 1990 romantic comedy in this fine revival by director Martin Lang. Sarah......
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Come Together: A Beatles Cabaret

Lovell Estell III
Having seen this show some time ago, it's good to report that a number of rough edges have been smoothened, so that this cabaret-style tribute to the music of the Beatles returns in fine form. This go-round, instead of a bland backdrop, the stage is festooned with a colorful collage......
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Dysnomia

Lovell Estell III
The play's title refers to a Greek goddess associated with disruption, which is just what befalls the family on display in Marja-Lewis Ryan's fine dramedy. Henry and Mary's (Heidi Sulzman and Trevor H. Olsen) longtime marriage has yielded good jobs, a comfortable suburban life and two attractive children. But angst......
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Four Clowns

Lovell Estell III
Creator-director Jeremy Aluma's performance piece made quite a splash during its run at last year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. This latest incarnation, ...
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Endgame

Lovell Estell III
A successful staging of Samuel Beckett's absurdist classic requires a director who can mine the play's comic and lyrical elements, and effectively meld ...