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OFFICE WORKERS GONE WRONG When I say that The Secretaries is a period piece, I’m not just describing the campy comedy’s early 90s fashion or repeated Slim’¢Fast references. Â  Â  Â  In the mill town of Big Bone, Oregon, it seems that Cooney Lumber can’t go more than 29 days without a bloody mishap. Â  Chronicling the initiation of…

HARVEY MILK 101 Dear Harvey is an educational theatre campaign, spearheaded by playwright Patricia Loughrey and composer Thomas Hodges. Â  Loughrey has compiled and arranged primary source materials about Harvey Milk and the lives he changed, and she wants everyone to learn more about his personality and mission. Comprised entirely of interviews with people who knew…

SHINE … (OUR APOLOGIES FOR PUTTING IT THIS WAY) … SHINES If you think about it, burlesques and musicals have a lot in common. Â  They are both flashy, and both depend on good choreography. Â  Characters have to be larger than life. Â  Performers have to expose a lot of themselves. Â  Audiences have high expectations, and an…

A MUSICAL TO WATCH OUT FOR NOTE: This review is based upon an invitation-only event that took place in New York City on June 29 and 30; bigger plans are in the works. CBGBs is dead. Â  The music club rocked the Bowery with acts like Blondie, Talking Heads, and the Patti Smith Group for over…

MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE It may be an act of intellectual suicide to reduce a discourse on Peter Shaffer’s Equus to a discussion of male genitalia, but there really doesn’t seem to be any other excuse for this revival than to provide a venue for teenage girls (and, very possibly, boys), in a highly…

PUPPETS + DRAG QUEEN = THE BEST SHOW IN THE WORLD Basil Twist can be called many things: a theatrical wunderkind, an artist, a genius. But officially, his title is Puppeteer. Well, also co-creator and director of Arias With a Twist, his amazingly beautiful collaboration with the hysterically funny and talented drag queen Joey Arias…

DRAG OUT THE PUPPETS No one does camp like a drag queen, and no one does drag like Joey Arias. This should give you some clue about Arias with a Twist, a spectacle created by puppet master Basil Twist and diva Joey Arias. Rocketing from an alien abduction to Hell to New York, Twist has…

SIZE MATTERS It wasn’t long into the show before our staff reviewer already felt somewhat helpless about writing a review of High Fidelity, the new Broadway musical that is based on the film of the same name that is based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. “I’m not the audience for…

GREYISH GARDENS The second act of Grey Gardens is a near-perfect little chamber musical. The first act is merely gratuitous. With a nudge here and a shove there, the second act could have been expanded into a wonderful evening in the theater complete unto itself. It is the part of the show that we came…