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Theater: Looped
feature Valerie Harper, Mary Tyler Moore’s TV sidekick Rhoda Morgenstern in the 1970s, plays the witty and bon vivant actress, Tallulah Bankhead.
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Theater: Trust
feature In David Schwimmer and Andy Bellin's new play, a 14-year-old teenaged girl is lured into meeting an older man who masquerades online as a 16-year-old.
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Theater: The Addams Family
feature In the musical adaptation of Charles Addams' cartoon clan, the family is led by marquee stars Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.
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Theater: Stage Door
feature Its “remarkably prescient” counterattack on Hollywood makes Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s 1936 play especially ripe for revival.
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Theater: La Cage aux Folles
feature Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge shine as longtime gay couple Georges and Albin in the new Broadway production of La Cage aux Folles.
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Opera: Götterdämmerung
feature Achim Freyer’s production of the final installment of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle “has not been universally loved,” but I’m convinced that, over time, it will be celebrated, said Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times.
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The Lost Boys of Sudan
feature Lonnie Carter's play is about the experiences of three Sudanese teenagers who are relocated to the Midwestern United States after spending time in refugee camps in Kenya.
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Doctor Cerberus
feature Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has written a “sweet and canny portrait of the artist as a young fanboy,” said Charlotte Stoudt in the Los Angeles Times.
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The Circle
feature Somerset Maugham’s 1921 comedy about a pair of love triangles has an “unexpectedly contemporary feel.”
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A Little Night Music
feature Replacements for the lead roles in Stephen Sondheim’s musical have turned this revival into one of the hottest tickets of the season.
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Late: A Cowboy Song
feature Late: A Cowboy Song established Sarah Ruhl as one of America's up and coming playwrights.
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The Scottsboro Boys
feature Composer John Kander and Lyricist Fred Ebb invert the usual conventions of a minstrel show to tell the story of nine African-American men who were falsely convicted of raping white women in Alabama in the 1930s.
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Trust
feature A dot-com millionaire, played by Zach Braff of Scrubs fame, enlists the services of a dominatrix who turns out to be an old high school crush.
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Exhibit of the week: Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
feature In the 1920s Man Ray—born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, the son of a tailor and a seamstress—moved to Paris and reinvented himself through art.
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