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Berlin calling, Home fires, Hello, Columbus, More 
- Berlin calling
If you ask someone whether they've seen Cabaret , odds are the answer will be yes. Ask Curt Columbus, and the answer is likely to be: Which one? Sitting in the upstairs theater of Trinity Repertory Company, where their production runs through October 11, the artistic director rattled off a chronology as lengthy as a convoluted German sentence.
- Home fires
There’s not a samovar in sight, and American playwright Richard Nelson has sharpened and pared down the script.
- Hello, Columbus
Last year was quite the highpoint for Curt Columbus.
- Love stories
“Maybe straight America — or American musical theater — is not ready for it yet. But the music rocks.”
- Fightin' words
The trouble with Greek tragedies is that they tend to be Greek to us.
- Learning curves
From Mr. Chips to Miss Jean Brodie, charismatic teachers have been the stuff of drama.
- Ghost story
Audiences just wanna have fun. Sometimes.
- Culture crunch
"Since the market crash," says Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, "we've watched our ticket sales, which had been doing well, hit a wall. Almost like a cartoon animal — splat. Then we started pushing the discount ticket sales and things started to move again."
- ’Tis the season
Pity the poor working stiffs at most regional theaters at this time of year, asked to prod the company’s tired old cash cow into life.
- Dying breeds
Chekhov insisted that his final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard , was a comedy and fumed at Stanislavsky’s having his characters suffer through their fraying existences at the pace of a Robert Wilson opus.
- Bird brain
The plays of Anton Chekhov don’t take well to dance.
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