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Still like those old time musicals: SpeakEasy’s “The Drowsy Chaperone”

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SpeakEasy’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a perfectly executed comic romp through what is both musical theater’s golden age and awkward adolescence.

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♩Da, Da, Da♩ A.R.T.’s “The Blue Flower”

ART The Blue Flower December 15, 2010

With characters based on German Expressionists Max Beckmann and Franz Marc, Marie Curie, and Dada artist Hannah Höch The Blue Flower, at the American Repertory Theater through January 8th, is certainly not a musical that strikes up an immediate familiarity with most audiences, like I imagine Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark might. But this somewhat [...]

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Breaking the Curse: The A.R.T.’s “Johnny Baseball”

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Theater……and sports? Bryce Lambert reviews the ART’s “Johnny Baseball.”

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A Trailer Park Pulls into the South End

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The SpeakEasy Stage hauls some trailer trash into the South End with “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.”

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Shakespeare Gone Japanese: The New Rep’s “Hot Mikado”

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Victoria Petrosino covers a very un-Japanese “Hot Mikado.”

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Hollywood in Split Screen: The Longwood Players’ “City of Angels”

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Victoria Petrosino reviews The Longwood Players’ production of “City of Angels,” a Hollywood noir musical.

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Punk Fairy Tales: “Le Cabaret Grimm”

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Bryce Lambert hits up a punk fairy tale cabaret.

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