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Wild Children of the Arts

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I have a special place in my heart for independent artists, and I’m proud to count myself as one of them. Individual artists enjoy an expansive creative freedom. We’re the wild flowers [...]
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Clowning Around

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After years of devoting their lives to the art form known as clown, Dick Monday and Tiffany Riley still cringe but politely smile when they’re asked “what do you do for a living, though?” ─ as if they must be stuck in a 9-to-5 claims adjuster position in order to support their addiction to red noses and gag props. And while it’s true that many actors [...]
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Review: La Traviata

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It’s rarely a good sign when your ghost appears before your death. So it goes for opera’s most beloved courtesan, Violetta Valery, the heroine/fallen woman of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” brilliantly re-imagined by [...]
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Review: Voyage

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If almost anyone — even a good friend — came up and asked you to sit still while they read aloud nine hours worth of imagined conversations between 19th century Russian intellectuals, nobody would [...]
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Review: The Toxic Avenger

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Musical theater has, as of late, taken some strange turns. Movies beget musicals that beget musical movies, but none, thus far, have been as surprising as “The Toxic Avenger,” based on the cult classic film [...]
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A Timely Chekhov

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THERE ARE 32 KNOWN ENGLISH translations of Anton Chekhov’s 1895 play “The Seagull,” and when deciding to add the title to the Alley Theatre’s 2011– 12 season, Gregory Boyd and his team read every one of them. After all [...]
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