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CAROLYN CLAY

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Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III  is a thing of additions and subtractions.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 05, 2008

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Sex and the century

Angels in America by BTW; A Pinter Duet at New Rep
Angels in America can dance on the head of a pin as easily as any other kind.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 29, 2008

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Grail time

‘Ni’ business like show business in Spamalot
Monty Python’s Spamalot bills itself as “lovingly ripped off” from the low-budget 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 23, 2008

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Fie, society

The Little Dog Laughed  at SpeakEasy; The Misanthrope at New Rep
Frailty, thy name is society — or so suggest two comedies of manners currently on view but written 340 years apart.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 22, 2008

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War games

The Huntington’s  Third ; the ART’s Copenhagen ; ASP’s Henry V
Wendy Wasserstein might have chosen a lesser light in whose shadow to cast a play than King Lear .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 16, 2008

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Noir comedy

Adrfit in Macao lives up to its name
As in Casablanca , whose transient denizens are waiting for visas, most of Macao is just waiting — as if for Godot.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 16, 2008

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Nerds and music

2 Pianos 4 Hands  scores at MRT
At least the cast of 2 Pianos 4 Hands doesn’t try to play Chopin.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 07, 2008

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The best on the boards

Theatre: 2007 in review
There have been a few muggings on the rialto this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 17, 2007

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Clan bake

Trinity looks inside Memory House
Memory Lane is a blocked road for high-school senior Katia, who’s asked to pound on the barricade for a college-application essay that must be postmarked by midnight tonight, New Year’s Eve.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2007

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From ma’am, with love

No Child . . .  at the ART, plus This Wonderful Life and White Christmas
Nilaja Sun could have caved to expectation.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 09, 2007

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The boxer and the Bard

Tunney/Shakespeare in Six Rounds yields no winner
Was it Muhammad Ali who advocated a lot of dancing before landing a punch?
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 27, 2007

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Vietnam and Victoriana

The Huntington’s Streamers ; SpeakEasy’s Edwin Drood
War is hell in Streamers — and few of the characters have even been to one.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 19, 2007

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Sound Czech

Tom Stoppard fuses the history and the music in Rock ’n’ Roll
Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll begins in 1968 in an English garden, where a piper perched atop an ivied wall is serenading a stretched-out blonde flower child.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 13, 2007

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Rabbit forming

Donnie Darko, plus The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird
For further indication of the darkening zeitgeist, consider the personae of imaginary rabbits.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 16, 2008

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After the fall

Sweeney Todd ; Macbeth ; A House with No Walls
The evil is boiled down in the revival of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and that makes for a stew far tastier than Mrs. Lovett’s human-hamburger pies.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 30, 2007

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Grief encounter

The Huntington’s Brendan  and the Lyric’s Dying City
The protagonist of Ronan Noone’s Brendan bestrides the narrow world, but hardly like a colossus.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 25, 2007

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College boards

Truth meets satire in The Pursuit of Happiness
Overachieving Maine teen Jodi has a bone to pick with the Founding Fathers.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 15, 2007

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History tour

Zeitgeist’s compelling   Kentucky Cycle; Double Edge’s Republic of Dreams
Whitewash has floated like a soap scum on the bloodbath of America’s past as told in the history books.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 09, 2007

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Perfect Tenn

Jeremy Lawrence’s one-man show Everybody Expects Me to Write Another Streetcar
When Tennessee Williams summered in Provincetown in the early 1940s, Eugene O’Neill was the playwright most associated with the tip of the Cape.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 04, 2007

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Thirtysomething

tick, tick ... BOOM! at New Rep; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by BTW; American Buffalo at WHAT
When Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer-winning composer of Rent , wrote tick, tick . . . BOOM! , he could not have known what the “boom” would be.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 03, 2007
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