Sandra Ross

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A Good Smoke

Writer-director Don Cummings adeptly captures the chaos enveloping a collapsing family in his dark, one-act comedy. Eldest son Dave (Henry Gummer) has returned ...
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The Vampires

Writer-director Chris Berube's play works best as melodrama detailing several love stories. It has a great twist: The audience ends up rooting for the vampi...
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Queen Christina Goes Roman

Howard Casner's drama suffers from so much exposition of offstage events that not even this play's time-traveling gays can resuscitate it. Inspired by h...
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The Boychick Affair

THE BOYCHICK AFFAIR: THE BAR MITZVAH OF HARRY BOYCHICK Where's Harry? All the guests have arrived, but bar mitzvah boy Harry (Greg Mikurak) and his father, ...
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It’s a Wrap

CHOOSING THE RIGHT GIFT can be fraught with peril. Shifting levels of day-to-day intimacy cloud the gift-giving process. Overly impersonal gifts can be met with “Thanks! This will go so well with the five other popcorn makers I have stored in my garage.” But inappropriately personal gifts are much more......
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Down the Drain

Last week’s announcement that the privately funded A.S.K. Theater Projects would shut down on September 30 came as particularly unwelcome news in the wake of huge cuts in public funding of the arts. But was the demise of the nonprofit — an organization originally conceived as a hybrid of a......
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A Looming Talent

Photos by Larry Hirshowitz "MY MOTHER COULD NOT DRESS ME — NEVER, NOT ever," says Venice-based designer Coryn Madley, sounding like a character from a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. "I grew up in a log cabin without electricity, but I insisted on having white patent-leather shoes," explains the petite redhead,......

Bart DeLorenzo, the Evidence Is In

Director Bart DeLorenzo sips a Dewar‘s at Taylor’s Steakhouse while describing his next ambitious project -- a May staging of David Edgar‘s Pentecost at the Evidence Room, the hippest small theater in town, where he serves as artistic director. DeLorenzo, known for his penchant for brainy plays and noir aesthetic,......