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Ryan M. McKelvey's "Beyond Dirt Knees" changes pace. It's an elliptical, poetic, time-hopping drama in 11 short scenes, its main characters a young man employed at a nursery and an elderly writer trying to complete a poem. Despite some awkward staging by director Jeffrey R. Simpson (and several badly flubbed tech cues on this opening-night performance), "Beyond" intrigues through McKelvey's ear for dialogue. Emotionally, the play suggests more than it manages to show, but does so with significant force.
Contrary to popular belief, New Hampshire is not Vermont. Similarly shaped, also scattered with stone churches and red barns, New Hampshire has been less interested in civil unions. In Their Town, a world premiere, playwright Paula Martinac imagines that these two women sue the state and set off a chain reaction of protest. The mayor insists that all this will put Grover's Corners "on the map." But the village has already been charted: It's the setting for Thornton Wilder's Our Town, the most-produced high school play in America. In Martinac's update, the townspeople are cranky, the economy is dry, and the biggest news is a new lamppost. A gay marriage could make the evening news!See the full content of this document
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Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival
Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival
PITTSBURGH Playwrights Theater Co.'s fourth annual showcase of plays on LGBT themes is split into two programs.PROGRAM A. Two dramas complement a pair of outright farces in th...See the full content of this document
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