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Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Dead Boys” It’s the end of the world. Two millennials are trapped in the basement of their old high school – the only gay kid in school, and the guy who used to beat him up. Provocative, hilarious, and heartbreaking, […]

Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Alice and the Fabulous Tea Party” Vaudeville, burlesque, panto, farce and fantasy combine to make this a no-holds-barred evening of hilarious theatre. Set in a fabulously overdone and wild garden-themed Victorian salon, Alice (now a grown woman) returns to Wonderland […]

Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month:   “Cardboard Piano” Against the backdrop of Uganda’s civil war, the union of the daughter of an American missionary and a local teenage girl is disrupted by violence. Hansol Jung’s haunting drama confronts the religious and cultural roots of intolerance, […]

Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month:   “Medea” Medea is a wife, a mother, and an immigrant. When her husband abandons his family for a new life, she exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear. First staged at the Theatre of Dionysus in […]

Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month:  “Big Shot” unfolds on the eve of what could be a giant break for two aspiring writers – a face-to-face meeting with one of Hollywood’s heaviest-hitting producers. As the clock ticks – and with only one shot to pitch a […]

Valentine’s Day is coming fast! Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month:   “Dessa Rose” tells the story of a young black woman (a runaway slave) and a young white woman (an abandoned mother) and their journey to acceptance in the antebellum South, as they tell their […]

Happy New Year! Well, 2018 is finally upon us, and here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: OPENING “Bugaboo & The Silent One” Bugaboo is an inmate in the women’s block of Henderson County Jail in West Virginia. After 42 days alone, she is assigned a roommate […]

Here are the new shows opening in our theaters this month: OPENING   “Yohen” In Japanese pottery, the term “yohen” refers to unpredictable changes that take place in the kiln. James and Sumi Washington are an interracial couple struggling to maintain their 37-year marriage after James retires from the US Army. The dramatic change in […]

Here are the new shows opening in our theaters this month: OPENING   “THE FACE, Behind the Face, behind the face” a performing artist confronts the ups and downs and struggles of his life and career and is led to the conclusion that his voice and his music are the keys to his success. The […]