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Can an intimate little musical with no stars and virtually no plot — but lots of charm and laughs — survive on big, spectacle-loving Broadway?
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| Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
Cirque Dreams is suited to the light entertainment requirements of gambling casinos, with its colorful costumes and sets, impressive acts of skill and balance, and lack of story line.
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| Hair
The Public Theater's revival of Hair is so spirited in its heart and mind that experiencing it is like sitting atop a promontory — a mesmerizing high.
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| Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is bringing the Joyce Theater's 2007-08 season to a substantive close with two completely different programs of largely unfamiliar choreographic works.
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| Animals Out of Paper
Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper is that rare piece: a touching set of insights into well-rounded characters devoid of happy endings.
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| Buffalo Gal
In Buffalo Gal, the prolific A.R. Gurney examines the two worlds he knows best — the theatre and the WASP upper crust.
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| Battleworks Dance Company
Judging from the brutal program it performed last week at the Joyce Theater, Battleworks is indeed the perfect name for choreographer Robert Battle's contemporary dance troupe.
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| Summer Shorts 2: Series A
The four short plays in this year's Summer Shorts 2: Series A make a nicely diverse mix, running the gamut from tragedy to black comedy.
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Metro Talent Challenge (Semifinals)
Looking to de-flea the dog days of summer, Metropolitan Room owners Chris and Steve Mazzilli and booker Lennie Watts have concocted a seven-week contest they call Metro Talent Challenge.
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| Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville
An obscure early comedy by avant-garde legend Richard Foreman reveals that before turning his attention to the gnomic metaphysical spectacles that made his reputation, our man dabbled in more-conventional playwriting.
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| Love, Incorporated
The concept of making over the hopeless geek has appeared in oeuvres from Grease to the adolescent romcom She's All That.
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| Summer Shorts and Other Literary Briefs
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's one-act Porcelain and Pink, the effervescent flapper Julie admits that she enjoys literature provided it's "not too ancient or complicated or depressing."
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| All The Rage
The unhappy characters in Keith Reddin's hilarious and tragic All the Rage wander in and out of each others' lives, leaving behind misery and more unhappiness.
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Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb is noteworthy for the efficient way it crams five one-act plays into a brisk, intermissionless 75 minutes. It helps, of course, that they all take place in the same setting: a generic hotel room.
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