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Axe to Ice re-updates vaudeville
There is a whole lot of shaking going on.
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When good puppets go bad
Broadway smash Avenue Q is not based on Sesame Street in any way shape or form. Nuh-uh. Nope.
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For those of you who only know how to be romantic on February 14th, you may go back to your video game. For the rest of you, there is still time to see World Passions with the Boston Ballet.
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Radio is the Sound Salvation
If Orson Welles were alive today, he could still fool people into thinking a Martian invasion were happening, just like he did when he performed War of the Worlds on the radio in 1938.
[Performing Arts] 
What Horrors Lie Before You
What's being billed on TheaterMania.com as a take on The Gashlycrumb Tinies is actually more a pageant celebrating the dramatic interpretation of death.
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Spoiler alert!
From Playboy cartoons about Superman in the boudoir to classic Belushi skits depicting the Hulk taking a dump, we like to have fun imagining superheroes as real people. Superheroes and their stories, although massively awesome in their own right, are also massively silly. "If you look at comic book stories from the 1950s, the stories were ridiculous," says Greg Maraio, creator of The Superheroine Monologues.
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Welcome to Oberon
Diane Paulus is about to sprinkle fairy dust over Harvard Square. As the American Repertory Theater's new artistic director, Paulus will open her tenure with The Donkey Show, the deliriously modern and sexy adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that she and husband Randy Weiner created in 1998.
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The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company dives into free fluffery
In this downturn economy, laughs come cheap. Patrons of this summer's production of The Comedy of Errors on the Boston Common will be snorting and chortling like the groundlings of Shakespeare's yesteryear, or so the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company hopes.
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On their website, Bad Habit Productions introduces their new show, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by reminding us that "in every dark tragedy lies an even darker comedy." So here is something for your postmodern sensibilities. The play has garnered fame as a work that ingeniously reframes Shakespeare's Hamlet as the absurdist capers of two minor characters.
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Haruki Murakami brought to life
While the Kobe earthquake and Sarin gas attacks were occurring in his native Japan in 1995, writer Haruki Murakami was teaching at Tufts, watching the disasters unfold from a television.
