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Boundless

Silent Sky – First Folio Theatre   Slight Sky is a play about faith, thought not the kind you’ll find holy books and buildings. It makes it a fitting piece for First Folio Theater’s cloistered space,...

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Upside Down

Strangest Things! The Musical – Greenhouse Theatre  For the subject of a musical parody one would think that Stranger Things, the sci-fi thriller/80’s love letter would be full to bursting with...

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Magnificent

Into the Beautiful North – 16th Street Theatre    There’s a moment at the top of Into The Beautiful North when Nayeli (Ilse Zacharias) a start-eyed optimist, home-town-girl, karate brown-belt and guide...

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Bad Blood

The Firebirds Take the Field – Rivendell Theatre    It starts in the lobby of Rivendell Theater. A television showing clips from the real-life outbreak of the “Girl Disease” that struck 18 young women...

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Lord of the Mouth

Where Did We Sit On The Bus? – Victory Gardens  Written and performed by Brian Quijada Playful and heartfelt, Where Did We Sit On The Bus? envelops us in the wonderful life of Brian Quijada, an...

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For My 28 Cents

A Little Bit Not Normal – Victory Gardens  By the door into the theater Arlene Malinowski, writer and actress and the owner of tonight’s story has placed a bowl full of chain and a small paper bag....

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If You Build A Better Mousetrap

Ideation – Jackalope Theater   At one point in Aaron Loeb’s sharp, dark comedy Ideation, a character blasts his daughter’s favorite song “How Far I’ll Go” from Disney’s Moana, to cover over some...

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That Hurly Burly Girl

Sylvester at Lifeline The marriage game. Jane Austen wrote of its rules and pitfalls, so did Hardy, and so did Georgette Heyer, whose tale of mismatched persons, fantastic plots, and missteps of...

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The Sweetest Thing

Choir Boy at Raven Theater   At the Charles R. Drew Prep School for boys decorum rains supreme. Headmaster Marrow (Robert D. Hardaway) demands that every student do his best to be true Drew men, and...

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Going Dark

Tangles and Plaques  A new play by Kirsten Riiber and the Neo-Futurists   This is the place where memories live. Where they spark and and glow and shift. This is where memories die, too....

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