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Baghdad
Burning,
a full-length play adapted from a web blog written
by an anonymous 25-year-old woman living in Iraq.
Closes
March 27, 2005.
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FEATURED
REVIEW
Reviewed
by Marlon Hurt
February
26, 2005
Jabu,
combines the French Absurdist play
Ubu Roi with the wild life of young playwright
Alfred Jarry. Uses elements of vaudeville, circus,
puppetry, clowning, and musical theater mixed with
slides and video.
Closes April 2, 2005.
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Other
new reviews include:
Between
Worlds, a
quirky yet soulful tragicomedy by the writer of the play
Monsieur Ibrahim (adapted into an award-winning film
starring Omar Sharif) about a strange hotel with an elevator
that travels between the lands of the living and the dead.
Closes March 19, 2005.
Eastern
Standard, Richard Greenberg's
play about a cross section of people during one fateful
summer. Closes
March 20, 2005.
Gorilla
Man, Obie Award winner Kyle
Jarrow brings you a theatrical spectacle about a boy becoming
a monster. Filled with bombastic rock songs and peopled
with lonely freaks, the show is a mix of comedy, concert,
and carnival. Closes
March 27, 2005.
Koliada:
Twelve Dishes,
a
new world music-theater piece based on ancient winter rituals
from the Carpathians and the contemporary poetry of Serhiy
Zhadan in which forces of nature, animal spirits, and the
dead come to dinner. Closes March 20, 2005.
Profile of a Saint,
actress
and comedian Angela Forrest takes on ten different southern
characters who live in a small town in a play that is a
mixture of comedy and drama.
Closes
March 27, 2005.
The
Germans in Paris, set in Paris
in 1843, two young and unknown political radicals—one
a 25-year old Karl Marx, the other the young composer Richard
Wagner —befriend Germany's most famous living writer,
Heinrich Heine. Closes
March 26, 2005.
The
Name of the Play is Talking Heads,
skewers the vapidity of music punditry on networks like
MTV, VH-1 and E!. The play takes place backstage at your
garden variety music channel where an innocuous music journalist
for a reputable industry magazine prepares to make his first
appearance on a show of this nature.
Closes March 26, 2005.
Trinity
of Two, two childhood friends
who after decades of no contact find themselves reaching
out to each other through the same, disturbing shared dream.
Closes
April 13, 2005.
Happy
Theatergoing!
Joyce Wan & Bruce Janicke
The Editors
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