A real-life supposed alien encounter from the 1950's gets the comedy treatment—complete with puppets.
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An astounding depiction of a "sick" mind.
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Halloween. I don't like it. I've never liked it. Could someone please make it go away?
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Georg Büchner's way-ahead-of-its-time, experimental, unfinished play from the 1830's can make a pretty fine straight drama, too.
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From Tommy & the High Pilots, sweeping little power-pop suites with multiple parts that hold together and never lose their grip.
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This story of life and love on a fictional Greek island is simple and old-fashioned and gets pretty silly, but that's all part of its lighthearted spirit.
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The latest edition of Clay McLeod Chapman's pugilistic monologue series may be the best one yet.
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Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walk out on hate.
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Cymbeline is one of those seldom-produced Shakespeare plays we English majors read in college but rarely get the opportunity to see.
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The Spanish composer Federico Mompou, who died in 1987, is beginning to get his due in the zeitgeist.
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