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“Spring Awakening” with Blank Theatre Company

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Spring Awakening – Blank Theatre Company

 

Blank Theatre has opened their inaugural season with the musical “Spring Awakening.” This complex musical, originally performed on Broadway in 2006, is based on the equally, if not more, controversial 1891 play by Frank Wedekind. This reiterates the fact that society has been plagued by convoluted opinions about sex since the dawn of time and will most likely continue until our demise.

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Which Six People?

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Six Degrees of Separation – Red Twist Theatre

Red Twist Theatre is one of my favorites in the city. Every so often it strikes me how lucky I am that next to my local coffee shop is a world-class theater. Tucked in a storefront in Edgewater, the entire theater is about the size of a modest one-bedroom apartment. The result is that the audience and the show occupy the same, small space. The first show I saw there a few years ago was their production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and I spent the play’s three hours as much in George and Martha’s living room as their actual guests.* The same sense of intimacy pervades their new production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s play, based on the almost unbelievable true story about a charismatic young man who charms his way into a wealthy Manhattan couple’s home pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.

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