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Shakespeare’s R & J

Adapter Joe Calarco dares to have a group of prep school boys, so filled with emotional and sexual tensions, that they use acting out Romeo & Juliet in a sheltered space on campus as a release of their bottled-up tensions.

One of the elements that makes Shakespeare’s R & J so enjoyable is the amazing articulate, fully invested acting by this talented cast

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Hunger

In this interesting drama, we learn much, mostly from flashbacks, of how this group of scientists traveled the world in pre-World War II days in search of both hardy and exotic plants as part of their attempt to produce hybrid wheat, corn, as well as fruits and vegetables, for the purpose of increasing food crop yields. This noble purpose had political as well as social consequences for the Communists Party’s survival in Russia.

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South Pacific non-Equity Tour

It is important that classics like South Pacific be presented in their entirety with all the songs, all the underscoring and all reprises so as to let the next generation experience all the splendor of the original production. This show does that effectively. Granted contemporary theatre aficionados may question many of the story elements and persona of key characters but they will have no quibble with Rodgers and Hammerstein marvelous songs.

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The Foreigner

Besides the hilarious exchanges between Betty and Charlie, we see how all the characters openly speak in front of Charles since they believe he doesn’t understand their words. The folks grow to love and trust Charlie mostly due to Shue’s clever characterization and Rod Armentrout’s tour de force performance. He invents a pig-Latin language , gloriously pretends he doesn’t understand anything and he ‘learns’ their language in a series of funny imitative scenes.

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