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April 2008

Monthly forecast
April's planetary themes are fire and earth and a touch of water, which basically amounts to the conditions needed for pottery.
By SYMBOLINE DAI  |  April 01, 2008
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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

Thirteen ways of looking at ink

Reflections on a lifetime of personal connections with tattoos
Reflections on a lifetime of personal connections with tattoos
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  February 20, 2008
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Tritown flashback

The return of Hollis the Mountain Man
Except for its art museum, Fitchburg is generally off the Phoenix radar.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  January 09, 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

October 2007

Monthly forecast
It's October again, and the theme is harvest, harvest, harvest thanks to Venus and Saturn in Virgo.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  October 02, 2007

September 2007

Monthly forecast
Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI  |  September 06, 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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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

February 2007

Monthly forecast
Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI  |  January 31, 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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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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Who do you trust?

The Civilians come to town
If “Investigative Theater” isn’t yet a genre, Obie-winning troupe the Civilians are betting it will be.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  April 18, 2006
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Other voices

Súgán brings Talking to Terrorists to America
Talking to Terrorists is a provocative title for a play.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  March 09, 2006
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Good knight out

Spamalot gallops into Boston
Hark — do you hear clippety-clop, clippety-clop? Is it horses’ hooves? Or the staccato percussive beat of coconut shells?
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  February 28, 2006
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Alcott sings

  Little Women comes close to home
When she was a little girl growing up in Brooklyn, director Susan H. Schulman  loved Little Women.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  January 17, 2006

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