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November

Steven Leigh Morris
David Mamet's Oval Office farce November centers on an imploding U.S. president, Charles Smith (Ed Begley Jr.), running for a second term, while his own re-election committee has cut off funds and his lesbian speechwriter, Bernstein (Felicity Huffman), is already drafting his concession speech. "Why? Why? We won the first......
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Antaeus Company Casts Two Actors in Each Role. Is That a Good Thing?

Steven Leigh Morris
If you attend a production presented by the Antaeus Company in North Hollywood, it's hard to be sure which performers you'll be seeing. Antaeus specializes in large-ensemble classics. And yet the company doesn't use understudies — theater's traditional insurance policy for absent actors. Rather, at Antaeus, in a profoundly different......