Barbara Vitello
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'Sweet Charity,' sweet indeedMar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyone knows the "showstopper," the number that so delights an audience, they can't stop applauding. Most musicals count themselves lucky to have one. Drury Lane Thea...
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Awakening to self-acceptanceMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "A Man of No Importance" put a smile on my face. It lasted the better part of Bailiwick Repertory's enthusiastic revival of the chamber musical by the "Ragtime" trio of ...
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Pared down 'Carousel' gets to the heart of the matterMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The scant whimsy that Court Theatre's gracefully unadorned "Carousel" evokes comes in the form of a small, gilded horse suspended above John Culbert's sparse, wood-plank...
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Intimate 'M. Butterfly' succeeds on many levelsMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly" is many things. A masterful deconstruction of Puccini's masterwork, "Madame Butterfly," Hwang's smart, multilayered play is also a cle...
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'Match' doesn't light up stageMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - From the title of the play you expect to see something incendiary. Unfortunately, Stephen Belber's "Match" fails to fully ignite. The problem with the mystery/relationsh...
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'Carter's Way' doesn't hit all the right notesMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Like a composer weaving together multiple melodies to create a symphonic poem, playwright/director Eric Simonson weaves together several themes in "Carter's Way." This ...
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Greasy Joan's modern flair enlivens MoliereMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The mission of Greasy Joan & Co. as expressed in rhyme, involves re-imagining classics for contemporary times. For its first foray into the oeuvre of Moliere, the compa...
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Slow-moving 'Crimes' falters on tight stageMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - On the surface, "Crimes of the Heart" seems like a fairly easy play to pull off. A dark domestic comedy about estranged sisters who return to their rural Mississippi h...
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Acclaimed 'Bountiful' concludes Goodman's salute to Horton FooteMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Trip to Bountiful" makes no grand pronouncements. Yet Horton Foote's bittersweet play, a study in character about an elderly woman returning to her childhood home ...
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'Sweet Charity,' 'Match' opening soonMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Hey, big spender A dance hall gal with a heart of gold and a penchant for picking the wrong guy bumbles through assorted romances in "Sweet Charity." Jim Corti directs D...