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SALLY CRAGIN

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Permanent

Body modification as art at the Peabody Essex Museum
As Massachusetts’s puritanical Blue Laws started to fade in the late 1990s, the kids on Comm Ave rejoiced.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  February 20, 2008

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Beane town

Speakeasy walks The Little Dog Laughed
The dish runs away with the show, not just the spoon, in Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony-nominated 2006 The Little Dog Laughed .
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  January 08, 2008

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Acting teacher

Nilaja Sun’s journey from tough schools to art
Here’s what happens when teaching artist Nilaja Sun takes on a typical 10th-grade class in the South Bronx.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  November 20, 2007

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Razor’s edge

Judy Kaye on reuniting with Sweeney Todd’s Demon Barber
According to the Tony-winning actor, there’s always more to discover about the Demon Barber’s culinary accomplice.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  October 17, 2007

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Arabian nights

Roosen's monologues considers sex beneath the veil
Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues was frank — nay, explicit — in its exploration of women’s sexuality.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  October 09, 2007

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Channeling Hitchcock

The 39 Steps Lead from the Huntington to Broadway
The classic British hero is cool, collected, witty, slightly bored, well-mannered, and possessed of lightning-fast reflexes when needed.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  September 04, 2007

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Would you like Mozart with that?

Don Juan Giovanni and Figaro fuse theater and opera
Tracy Chapman sang about revolution that “sounds like a whisper,” but at the American Repertory Theatre the French Revolution will be broadcast loud and clear.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  August 21, 2007

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Police force

Many little things they did were magic
Along came the Police, packing cold, steely hits with flashes of heat.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  July 25, 2007

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Pass the jelly

John Kuntz toasts Mr. Marmalade
It came about “because I knew a girl who wanted to wear a tutu on stage.”
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  July 10, 2007

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Plus-size love

SpeakEasy embraces Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig
For a playwright and filmmaker known for pinpointing every possible human folly, Neil LaBute is candid about his reputation as a master mocksmith of bad behavior.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  March 06, 2007

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Still queen

Dinah Washington evoked at MRT
Rare is the biographical theater piece that seems to create a new genre of theater.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  February 20, 2007

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Nun sense

Cherry Jones has no doubt about Doubt
Theatergoers who attended American Repertory Theatre in the 1980s saw an exquisitely versatile actor, Cherry Jones.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  January 23, 2007

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Women’s war

9 Parts of Desire  probes the Iraqi female psyche
Most of the world has an outside-in perspective on Iraq, but the Lyric Stage Company is presenting an insider’s view in Iraqi-American writer/performer Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire .
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  October 10, 2006

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High philately

Mauritius enters the weird world of stamps
“When I started working on this play, a lot of people came out of the woodwork and said, ‘I used to collect stamps,’ ” explains writer Theresa Rebeck over the phone from Los Angeles.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  September 27, 2006

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On the record

High Fidelity to hit Boston before Broadway
The days when Boston was the chief tryout town for Broadway-bound musicals are long past.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  September 19, 2006

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Wilson’s legacy

The Huntington tunes in Radio Golf
He is missed. And he is mourned. Although playwright August Wilson, who passed away last October, will no longer be in his customary spot in the Huntington Theatre Company rehearsal hall, his presence pervades the preparation of Radio Golf .
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  August 29, 2006

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Bedeviled disciple

Company One puts Judas on trial
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is an extended serio-comic courtroom saga that the title character spends much of curled up in a fetal position
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  July 20, 2006

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Free fisticuffs

Shrew to be tamed on Boston Common
After last year’s Hamlet , Commonwealth Shakespeare Company artistic director Steven Maler decided he wanted a play “with life and character and vitality to it — an upbeat type of spirit” for this year’s offering of free Shakespeare on Boston Common.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  July 11, 2006

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Bard or beard?

Shakespeare steps on the Publick stage
This season the Publick Theatre will be doing Shakespeare in the park with a twist.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  June 20, 2006

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Drama loading

Preparing for the Boston Theater Marathon
No sooner has the final runner staggered past the Prudential than it’s time to gear up for another long-distance event: the Boston Theater Marathon, which takes place this Sunday, May 21.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  May 16, 2006
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