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Dust up
Suffice it to say that Leenane is no city of brotherly love.
Gods and monsters
Those who know their Coleridge will recall that: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately roller-dome decree."
High flying
Hershey Felder's Maestro: Leonard Bernstein (presented by ArtsEmerson on the Paramount Mainstage through May 20) begins with black-and-white footage of its subject lecturing vigorously on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Farewell romance
"All's false in love and war" might be a maxim for Troilus and Cressida.
Eat my brain
Forget the elephant in the room. Depression is a big cat in Tigers Be Still, a relentlessly quirky yet endearing screwball tragicomedy by Kim Rosenstock that debuted at New York's Roundabout Underground in 2010 and is getting a sweet Boston premiere by Zeitgeist Stage Company (at the BCA Black Box through May 5).
Raisin brand
There is more than one way to view A Raisin in the Sun .
Tripping
"Oh, for Christ's sake, Papa! Can't you lay off me!" asks the younger James of the elder as "the four haunted Tyrones" are just beginning to scratch the surface of the emotional spelunking that will become Long Day's Journey into Night .
I am a camera
Is war correspondence a calling or a kick?
Swans song
Confucius might have doubted the wisdom of bringing Wild Swans to the stage.
Last supper
"Denmark's a prison," opined Hamlet some 400 years ago.
Suite stuff
Forget the Hotel California; welcome to the Hotel Tennessee.
Parent flap
If Lord of the Flies wanted an upscale-urban bookend, it could do worse than God of Carnage (presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the BU Theatre through February 5).
Scarlet fever
Mark Rothko sees red in Red — and not just when staring hard at his iconic Seagram murals.
In memoriam
Why did news of David Wheeler's death last week come as such a shock?
Moveable feast
Guns go off in Uncle Vanya. And in Apollinaire Theatre Company's production (at Chelsea Theatre Works through January 22), the title character is one of them.
When it came to home teams vs. visitors, audiences were the winners
It's been the visitors versus the home teams this year.
Wasted
The most shocking thing about High (at the Cutler Majestic Theatre through December 11) is not that Kathleen Turner plays a nun.
Death takes a holiday
Instead of sugarplums, New Repertory Theatre is serving up funeral meats.
Fats entertainment
If the current campaign against obesity means we have to hate Fats Waller, well, to hell with it.
Louisiana purchase
Symbolism blows over swampland in The Brother/Sister Plays , a hypnotic trilogy making its area debut courtesy of Company One (at the BCA Plaza through December 3).
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