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The Russell Street Theater 116 NE Russell Blvd, 232-4382 Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm through July 1, $8 Of the four show plays that comprise An Evening with Alan Ball, “Made for a Woman” lasts 15 minutes, “Power Lunch” takes up 40 minutes, “Your Mother’s Butt” is 15 minutes long, and “Bachelor Holliday” lasts 3 minutes. I […]

THERE ARE MANY interesting things to say about the atom-bomb siring Manhattan Project, but Amherst playwriting professor Constance Congdon’s No Mercy doesn’t voice any of them. Her one-act is a sublime thing, though a play without content. Like nonsense verse, the dialogue resembles English, but the text keeps sense at arm’s length. The cast’s pain […]

Lion in the Streets Theater Vertigo The Russell Street Theater 116 NE Russell Blvd, 306-0870 Thurs-Sat at 8 pm, call for ticket prices Actors have two choices. First, they have the more or less traditional option in which the actor honors the playwright’s text. Or, there is the amorphous, free-form type of play that really […]

Actors have two choices. First, they have the more or less traditional option in which the actor honors the playwright’s text. Or, there is the amorphous, free-form type of play that really exists to highlight the skills of the performer. Judith Thompson’s Lion in the Streets is decidedly of the second variety. Not that it […]