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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The Hard Weather Boating Party, by Naomi Wallace, suffers from something like the opposite problem. The play knows where it's going; the problem is getting there. Three apparently unrelated men gather in a seedy motel room to plan a murder. Yet the first act is padded out with mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville: Where New Plays Go to Be Born | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

If you’ve been holding out for the day that “Superbad” is remade as a melodrama, your day has finally come. Greg Mottola, who directed the 2007 hit summer comedy about two virgin high school seniors getting drunk and looking to get laid...

Author: By William P. Hennrikus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adventureland | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

His parents were “very supportive” when he got the role, Priour said. “I think we just sort of laughed about it, you know, my mom would say, ‘Well, don’t get too in character.?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

But the role was still daunting. Priour’s character is a part-time “club designer” from New York City, a gay man who glories in his own flamboyance. And Priour isn’t just playing any gay character—he?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Three of the four central characters are being played by straight actors. All four male leads said they put a lot of thought into what it meant to play a gay man in a play about gay identity. For all of them, the goal was to make their character seem...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building Character for 'Angels in America' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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