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Prison riot Even Shakespeare and John Fletcher knew that the rewrite of a Chaucer poem took some serious guts back in...

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Slammer time In case the new Die Hard flick didn’t cut it and you still need your fix of action with little to no...

ARTS Pick: Mostly Cyrano

Nasal passages: Although Edmond Rostand’s theatrical classic Cyrano de Bergerac needs no other proof of success...

ARTS Pick: Into the Woods

Broadway has a knack for re-telling classic children’s stories, and one of the early big ones was Into the Woods....

Good buzz

Onstage, a fine-featured woman removes her skirt, collapses her bustle, and adjusts the corset nipping her waist. Her...

Comedy writer repurposes a...

“Originally it was the idea of taking an old science fiction premise that wasn’t very good, and using it as a basis...

ARTS Pick: Bent Theater Improv

Bent Theatre goes all the way—with a bit of “Saturday Night Live,” a dash of “Whose Line is It Anyway?,” a touch of...

Noises on

Early February. Three and a half weeks before the opening of Live Arts’ new main stage production, In the Next Room...

ARTS Pick: God’s Ear

The best new plays are always hard to categorize, and Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear is no exception. Staged by UVA’s...

ARTS Pick: Paula Poundstone

Catty lady If you can’t quite place Paula Poundstone, try imagining her with a red brick wall behind her while she...