But who could resist a Sesame Street for just-grownups in which the most vehement monster is addicted not to cookies but to Internet porn, there's a catchy tune about racism and a funky one about making noise while making love, and the puppets warble with wide mouths and noticeable vibrato? Is there a vacancy above the convenience store? Move me in!
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Playwright Karen Zacarias would seem to have taken long drafts of Tom Stoppard Elixir.
- Speakeasy's The Drowsy Chaperone; Gold Dust Orphans' Peter Pansy
The Drowsy Chaperone is receiving a rousing wake-up call from SpeakEasy Stage Company (at the BCA's Calderwood Pavilion through June 5).
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Fall came early to Boston boards this year, bringing with it "Summertime."
- Lyric Stage's superior Superior Donuts
No one, to my knowledge, has accused Superior Donuts of being superior Tracy Letts.
- 'The Tempermentals' start the revolution
Jon Marans's The Temperamentals (at Lyric Stage through April 28) begins innocently enough: a first date during which a coy couple engages in some flirtatious back-and-forth and plays footsie under a restaurant table.
- Car Talk is no musical
The notion of a musical inspired by Car Talk is bizarre.
- New Rep and W.H.A.T. paint a Pollock
Fortunately, Elvis Costello's dictum that writing about music is like dancing about architecture doesn't apply to playwrights taking on the world of art, which has been the subtext for three provocative Boston-area plays recently.
- Courthouse’s Avenue Q is a monstrous delight
Think twice before you tell anybody to get real. You might create a monster. Or, in the case of Avenue Q , the Sesame Street -on-LSD Broadway musical, a monster hit since 2003.
- Next to Normal is good therapy
Well, why not.
- Chad Deity is a knockout
The old actors' adage "Break a leg" does not seem an apt shout-out to the intrepid cast of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.
- Marie Antoinette rules at ART
Last year, dramatist David Adjmi raised a stir with a site-specific tea party called Elective Affinities , in which four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell held court in an Upper East Side townhouse, spinning a small audience into her web of entitlement.
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