Take Me Out
The New York Empires locker room will never be the same after a charismatic young baseball star at the top of his game casually reveals a personal truth: he's gay.
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Beyond Cute Boys in Their Underpants
An informal examination of Broadway and Off Broadway shows and a survey of longtime theater industry people showed that over the last 15 years, there have been about 25 plays with full frontal nudity. In a count of the nude bodies seen in those shows, 40 or so belonged to men, and only about 10 belonged to women.
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Alter Boyz
ALTAR BOYZ, a new musical comedy and critically-acclaimed hit of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is the hilarious account of a struggling Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) looking for their big break in the Big Apple.
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Dame Edna: Back With A Vengence
Barry Humphries' creations are either your cup of tea ot they're not. Les Patterson, Humphries' revolting vaudeville ham is not for me, but Dame Edna definitely is
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Splatter Pattern
The Village Voice, October 12, 2004
Leave it to Neal Bell. So many recent plays have made forays into the noir genre—conscious or unconscious, spoofing or surrealist—that I had assumed there was nothing new to be gotten from it. But Bell walks in, boldly and knowingly, where legions have trod before, and instantly finds new paths to explore, new matches of tone and subject, new sources of moral perturbation. His title, from forensic medicine, describes both the directions in which blood has spurted from a fatal wound and the aesthetic tactic his script employs. His topic, achingly visible under the sprayed droplets of his story, is responsibility; you might say that Spatter Pattern scrutinizes what Wallace Stevens implied, in "The Man With the Blue Guitar," was the central question of the modern age: "Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood,/And whichever it may be, is it mine?"
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TheaterMania.com, October 13, 2004
In telling his story, Bell comes up with all sorts of engrossing notions and incidents. Not the least of them is Dunn's inclination as a writer to imagine various versions of what he's experiencing. His flights of fancy, as often as not paranoid, are interrupted by a bell that jolts him back into the real world. The playwright also introduces a handful of additional characters -- all played by Deirdre O'Connor and John Lavelle -- including Tate's estranged wife, a hooker whome he visits, a detective who's convinced that Tate's the killer, and a student friend of Andrea's who's also certain of Tate's guilt. And then there's troubled, troublesome Andrea herself, who haunts Tate and even shows up to occupy Dunn's vivid imaginings.
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Broadway Bares
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Jumpers
March 2004
Direct from a sold-out run in London, where it was a hit at the National Theatre of Great Britain and transferred to the West End, Tom Stoppard's masterpiece JUMPERS arrives on Broadway
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After The Fall
New York Times, March 16, 2004
Mr. Krause will play Quentin, the tortured lawyer who is
usually considered a stand-in for Mr. Miller in this play,
commonly assumed to be based on his marriage to Marilyn
Monroe. Jason Robards played the role in the original 1964
Broadway production
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Match
March 2004
FRANK LANGELLA (Fortune's Fool, Dracula), RAY LIOTTA (Goodfellas, Identity), and MELORA WALTERS (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) star in MATCH
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Burning Blue
Show Business Weekly, 2002
The military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy continues to be a controversial issue, spawning a number of questions about equal treatment and freedom of expression. What does homosexuality represent in the minds of most Americans and its top officials? What effect does homosexuality have on one’s military performance, if any? And what exactly is the meaning of "deviant" behavior?
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Five Flights
Curtain Up, January 2004
Five Flights also features several romantic encounters which are funny and touching because of what's seen more than what's said. Adding to the amusement are the weirdly amusing balletic gestures and exits of the actors. No wonder the program has a choreography credit (Julia Adam)! Not that there aren't plenty of words and ideas to chew over in Adam Bock's serious and seriously funny contemplation of the human condition.
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Timothy Scott: 'Cats' suits this dancer purr-fectly
au courant January 24, 1983
His career started in high school and whisked him off almost immediately to the St. Louis Municipal Opera, where he was ill the chorus for South Pacific and Fiddler on the Roof. That led to an audition for a bus-and-truck tour of No, No, Nanette. -He was told telephonically, "Fly out tonight" and got the job his first day in New York, fresh from the Midwest. After six months with the tour he began his bi-coastal existence in Los Angeles with an Anne Bancroft TV special, some summer stock, and continuous improvement of his technique. At times Tim is hard on himself, but it's an attitude that takes him nowhere but up, because the end result is just that — up. It might be called perfectionism.
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The Original Cast of "Nine"
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