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Unbridled Passion Reaches Epic Heights in ART’s ‘Bloody Poetry’

The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre’s latest play delves into the personal lives of romantic poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.

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Both Riveting and Relevant, ‘Pipeline’ Takes Over Actors’ Warehouse Stage

The downtown theater presents another powerful play that addresses issues of class and race in the American education system.

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No Subject Too Sacred in Hipp’s New Play That Rocks a Family’s Faith

Shuffle off to Buffalo for some belly laughs in “Miracle on South Division Street,” the heartwarming comedy opening this week at the Hippodrome Theatre. 

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Actors’ Warehouse Brings Notable ‘Hidden Figure’ Front and Center

“The Colored Door at the Train Depot” shines a light on the first African American to command whites in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during WW2.

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‘In Splendid Error’ About Two Men, Two Philosophies, One Noble Cause

The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre celebrates Black History Month with a thought-provoking play examining the relationship between abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Brown.

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‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Opens Some New Doors — and Old Wounds

The Hippodrome’s first play of 2019 examines the institution of marriage through the eyes of a woman who revisits the family she once abandoned.

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Hipp Adds Ha-Ha-Ha to Ho-Ho-Ho!

Not even Rudolph and Frosty — especially Frosty — are safe in Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), a laugh-out-loud spoof opening this…

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Acrosstown Takes Stroll ‘Into the Woods’

Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical about a mashup of fairy tales and efforts to reverse a witch’s curse arrives at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.

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AW Production ‘Boy’ Addresses Gender Identity

The Actors’ Warehouse presents Anna Ziegler’s disturbing one-act drama about a boy who is raised as a girl because of a physical deformity only to…

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A Hipp House of Horror: ‘Let the Right One In’

The Hippodrome Theatre presents a stylized version of the coming-of-age story from Sweden involving a bullied boy and his mysterious next-door neighbor who packs a…

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