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Onstage

Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Grace Ng played Wilhelm, the lead, in the Shotgun Player’s recent production of The Black Rider. So when the theater held auditions for...
Onstage

Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Spinella won two Tonys playing main character Prior Walter in the Broadway debut of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Onstage

Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE Playwright and actor Evan Johnson's drag queen alter ego, Martha T. Lipton the Failed Actress, is one of the most delightfully surreal performers in...
Dance

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

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DANCE/PERFORMANCE A pagan drag queen Green Man, sporting a maypole-ribbon corset and tiny Speedo, hopping about madly on stilts? A ferocious clown satire of the...
Onstage

The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

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ONSTAGE A historical epic, a taut thriller, a chamber melodrama, a heart-warming comedy, a social scalding: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrings a lot from her...
Onstage

A giddy Go-Go’s time warp in “Head Over Heels”

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE It's real cute, the good kind of cute. Head Over Heels (through May 6 at the Curran Theatre), the "posh meets punk" Elizabethan...
Dance

Sean Dorsey Dance’s ‘Boys in Trouble’ unpacks toxic masculinity

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DANCE  Alt-right, #metoo, the Trump administration: Toxic masculinity and its effects are all the rage. We live in a culture that only allows (and rewards)...
Onstage

Review: ‘Disruption’ offers timely #metoo twist on tech scandals

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE Since the #MeToo movement burst on the scene, it has illuminated the epidemic of sexual harassment that has long afflicted women in all...
Onstage

‘How To Be a White Man’ explores power and identity with a comic touch

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Growing up in rural Louisiana, queer black comedian and social worker Luna Malbroux was pretty familiar with assumptions people might make about her....
Onstage

Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE "You lost a brother, I lost my family. You lost a brother, I lost my whole country… I lost everything I had." With this...

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