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Dead ringers

Ring Round the Moon at Barrington Stage; Double Double at Williamstown
The Doublemint Twins in The Parent Trap would not be out of place on Berkshires stages this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 22, 2006

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Tub thumping

Israel Horovitz cracks The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath
Lady Macbeth has been scrubbing herself on stage for 400 years, and Jean-Paul Marat spends most of Marat/Sade issuing rhetoric from a tub.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 15, 2006

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Romance gone wrong

Red Light Winter in Wellfleet; Romeo and Juliet in Williamstown
An unrequited-love triangle is at the center of Adam Rapp’s riveting and abrasive if not entirely plausible Red Light Winter.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 09, 2006

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Let’s get physical

The Taming of the Shrew on Boston Common; Copenhagen at the Publick
Shakespeare’s super-dainty Kates become cannoli in The Taming of the Shrew on Boston Common.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 01, 2006

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Just a gigolo

Sweet Bird of Youth ; The Merry Wives of Windsor ; The Price
Two guys on Berkshire stages are trying to parlay sexual prowess into deep pockets this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  July 25, 2006

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Bard and puppet

Hamlet ; Coastal Disturbances ; Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!
This is the first assault on Hamlet in Shakespeare & Company's 29-year history.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  July 18, 2006

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Eternal questions

The Beard of Avon at the Publick; Happy Days at Gloucester
Bard or beard — that is the question.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  July 11, 2006

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Age of innocence

Barrington Stage revives The Human Comedy
The musical, which draws on idioms from jazz and swing to gospel to early rock and roll, is more like American Bandstand gussied up with uniforms.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  July 07, 2006

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Heaven can wait

Monsieur Chopin at ART, Candy and Dorothy at Wellfleet
If Monsieur Chopin were to find itself in Tony contention, the score would do better than the book.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 27, 2006

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Heidi and seek

Gloucester Stage honors Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles is very much reflective of a first feminist generation of women caught between what their mothers had taught them to desire and what they thought they wanted.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 20, 2006

Simple pleasures

Enchanted April , Samurai 7.0: Under Construction
At Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, a sensitive and competent ensemble turns on both the sadness and the heat as four unlikely “sisters” discover their inner rejuvenators.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 14, 2006

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Fats and Wilde

Ain’t Misbehavin’ in Beverly, An Ideal Husband in Wellesley  
It’s no surprise that this show is such naughty, irrepressible fun.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 07, 2006

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Project adventure

Cyrano at Trinity Rep, Heading for Eureka at Centastage
It’s hard to say which is bigger, Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose or his thesaurus.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 02, 2006

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Five By Tenn, Olly’s Prison win big

The Elliot Norton envelope please
The Boston Theater Critics Association put on its annual Elliot Norton Awards fandango Monday night, intended to honor the best on local stages as well as the memory of their namesake, dean of American theater critics Elliot Norton, who clocked 48 years on the Boston aisle.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 24, 2006

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Monkeying around

It's Kong's Night Out at the Lyric
“Show me the monkey” is bound to be a demand of any audience confronted with an entertainment that riffs on King Kong .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 16, 2006

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Song and substance

Ragtime and Caroline, or Change
The wheels of a dream are spinning New Repertory Theatre into a new era with its production of Ragtime .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 10, 2006

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Doing the nasty

Cleopatra the Musical, Damn Yankees, Hiding Behind Comets, Real Hush-Hush  
Ryan Landry swears that if there’s a more lavish musical extravaganza in town than his Cleopatra the Musical (at Machine through May 27), he’ll eat his negligee.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 02, 2006

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Boston theater season announced

High Fidelity  to world premiere in the fall
Boston’s biggest theatrical guns have announced what they’ll be showing next season, and it isn’t all Annie and Aeschylus .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 27, 2006

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Love and war

All’s Well That Ends Well ; The Man Who ; Boots on the Ground
Shakespeare might have subtitled All’s Well That Ends Well (presented by Actors’ Shakespeare Project at Cambridge Family YMCA Theater through May 14) Smart Women, Foolish Choices .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 25, 2006

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Meltdowns

Wicked at the Opera House; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball at Boston Theatre Works
Like the bony, broom-riding icon of Oz it aims to exonerate, Wicked is neither all good nor all bad.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 18, 2006
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