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  Foote Traffic: WaterTower, Kitchen Dog and Contemporary Theatre join the ongoing marathon of folksy plays.

  By Elaine Liner

  Bring on the Mamet. Cue up some Neil LaBute. Somebody, quick, stage something full of cussin' and screwin' and gettin' all nekkid. A month into... More >>

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  Uptown Players stumble with Horton Foote’s Young Man from Atlanta.

  By Elaine Liner

  A splendid play happens offstage during Horton Foote's Pulitzer-winning The Young Man from Atlanta, now running at Uptown Players at the Kalita... More >>

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  At DCT's Tuck Everlasting, there's teen undead love without the vampires; Cara Mia visits The House on Mango Street

  By Elaine Liner

  Before the hunky undead teens of Twilight, there were the hunky immortal brothers of Tuck Everlasting, the 1975 young adult novel by Natalie... More >>

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  In Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate at the Wyly, there are big money, big problems and a big payoff.

  By Elaine Liner

  Where there's a will, there's a way for greedy family members to fight about who gets what and how much. In Horton Foote's internecine 1989... More >>

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  Theatre Too does wrong by Durang; at the Bath House, The Housekeeper keeps it clean

  By Elaine Liner

  Theatre Three's downstairs dungeon Theatre Too is exactly the right space in which to stage Christopher Durang's semi-absurd political satire Why... More >>

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  Out of the Loop fest teaches a Lesson in how to do Ionesco; Tap This turns on some crazy rhythms

  By Elaine Liner

  WaterTower Theatre's tenth annual Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is a busy buffet of talent spread among three venues at the sprawling Addison... More >>

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  Circle Theatre flies first-class with Boeing-Boeing comedy; time to get loopy again at WaterTower festival.

  By Elaine Liner

  In ancient times, there were "air hostesses." If you have never been through an airport without being forced to remove footwear, you are too... More >>

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  Matthew Posey's Memphos! has weird tricks up its sleeve; elsewhere, boring old Bard.

  By Elaine Liner

  They're up to new tricks at Matthew Posey's Ochre House theater, that odd little hotbox of freakishly entertaining original work written,... More >>