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No, No, Nanette has been almost perfectly revived as the last production of this season's Encores! series. Call it a heavenly amount of tap-happy jazz-age fun.

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Tinderbox

Full of black wit, the play has a darkly playful attitude to a society in flux and is unafraid to plumb to grisly, cannibalistic depths.

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A Chorus Line
Review By BOB BOWS

The successful 2006 Broadway revival of the long-running "A Chorus Line" hit the road with loads of traction in a spirited Mile High City tour premiere.

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Review: 'Rafta, Rafta... ' BY LINDA WINER

Now Elliott and The New Group have snared the American premiere of "Rafta, Rafta ...", recent winner of the Olivier Award for best comedy, and confirmed Khan-Din as a vital, valuable mainstream voice with new s…

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Mill Fire - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Sally Nemeth's 1989 "Mill Fire," set in 1977 and '78, is a rare example of a play that raises issues about labor and justice without losing its humanity.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Curse of the Starving Classes and Coco
San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema

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Shepard's Debtors of 1978, Sounding like Today's Poor By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

The 30th-anniversary revival of Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class," at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, is respectable but timid.

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A curious 'Tea Party' by Peter Filichia/

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Cecilia's Last Tea Party

One does not necessary insist on a play such as this being completely accessible. Whatever it is, I'm still thinking about it. Hopefully future audiences will also find something to think about.

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Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs
Review By SAM THIELMAN

In Target Margin's version, "Old Comedy" name-checks Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and Judy Garland and then seems to expect its audience to undergo some kind of epiphany. Given the play's already low standards f…

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Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

It's not much fun on the exterior of an inside joke, especially when that joke comes in the form of a smug, interminable bit of self-referential theatre.

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Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs

David Greenspan is certainly true to the spirit of Aristophanes and his times. But he mixes Aristophanes' play with so many famous people who populated the two thousand plus years since the playwright's death.

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EST Marathon of One-Act Plays

There are two more series to give Ensemble Studio Theatre a chance to show that they are incubating the worthwhile new talent of the future.

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A Tennis Tantrum, No Math Required By JASON ZINOMAN

David Auburn's play "An Upset" is a highlight of the five short works in the first installment of Marathon 2008 at the Ensemble Studio Theater.

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EST Marathon 2008 Series A
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Works by David Auburn, Michael John Garcés, and Amy Herzog highlight this program of one-acts.

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A Seagull in the Hamptons
Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

Despite a decided imbalance in the modernization of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," Emily Mann's crisply staged "A Seagull in the Hamptons" roosts on the McCarter Theater Co.'s stage sustaining the rueful mood a…

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Fine cast livens 'Seagull' update By Howard Shapiro

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A Seagull in the Hamptons
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Maria Tucci gives a superlative star turn in Emily Mann's updating of Chekhov's classic comedy.

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Review: 'John Lithgow: Stories by Heart' BY LINDA WINER

If you'd like to hear the likable actor intone "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes and elocute 40 minutes of quirky English voices in "Uncle Fred Flits By" by P.G. Wodehouse, this may be deli…

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John Lithgow: Stories by Heart - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

About the only thing that doesn't work about John Lithgow's one-man show is the title. The name holds out the promise of a lineup of performed pieces, but the program isn't quite so full: Apart from Lithgow's "…

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John Lithgow champions the art of storytelling By MICHAEL KUCHWARA

It's not so much the stories themselves, but how and why they were told.

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John Lithgow: Stories By Heart
Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Because he's so invested in understanding why stories matter, his passion is easy to share.

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Engaging John Lithgow tells 'Stories by Heart' by Michael Sommers

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Lithgow puts "Heart" into old-fashioned storytelling By Alexis Greene (Hollywood Reporter)

Part of the audience's enjoyment comes from the storyteller's pleasure, and Lithgow, here at his heartwarming best, clearly relishes the assignment.

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BEDTIME TALE REMEMBERED AND RETOLD By FRANK SCHECK (***)

By the time the evening is over, we feel as if we've shared in this talented actor's private life as well as his considerable comic talents.

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John Lithgow: Stories by Heart
Review by Matthew Murray

The lost art of elocution is receiving a revival in one of the few places in New York it could reasonably be expected to still hold some sway: Lincoln Center.

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