By Will Yakowicz
Theater: Sex, drugs and family dysfunction — it’s all fodder for the young playrights of Off The Hook, a teen troupe that presents its sixth annual production on Nov. 20 and 21.
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By Meredith Deliso
Leslie Lyons
Theater: The latest production from The Civilians troupe, which has delved into the Atlantic Yards project and Evangelical Christians, now turns its eye on something really controversial: divorce.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Toni Wilkinson
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension enjoyed “The New Electric Ballroom” at St. Ann’s Warehouse. You will, too — if you like bleak torrents of words.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Jen Maufrais Kelly
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The Gallery Players has done the impossible: presented a musical about two comedians that doesn’t have a single laugh in it.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Theater: From “Sex and the City” to “Soap Opera on the Prairie”?
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By Shannon Geis
Theater: Check out Tanya O’Debra’s one-night-only radio show at Glasslands.
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By Shannon Geis
Theater: It’s current! It’s humorous! It’s educational! It’s “Tally Ho! Or Navigating the Future,” a slapstick comedy with trap doors, giant puppets, and smoke machines. Of course, it’s about the economy, stupid.
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By Robin Riskin
Waiting in the Wings: Lots of upcoming works, including a spoof of our financial system.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Joshua Luria
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension has some very nice things to say about the Gallery Players’ production of “King Lear.”
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By Thurston Dooley III
Dooley Noted: It is not very often that a theatrical production comes along that features puppetry, scenery-chewing acting, greatly truncated Shakespeare and absurd accents — and yet still doesn’t fully satisfy me.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Theater: A Bay Ridge theater troupe gets a new home — with a supporting role played by us!
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By Evan Gardner
Theater: Park Slope’s best local theater company is set to steal the spotlight from Manhattan’s annual summer Shakespeare festival this July with “King Lear.” And that’s just the beginning.
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By Evan Gardner
Jack Vartoogian
Theater: A festival of Islamic art at the Brooklyn Academy of Music includes an Arabic take on “Richard III” and a concert by Youssou N’Dour.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, got a rise out of the partly naked retelling of the Fall of Man.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Marc Hermann
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, takes a shot across the bow of the Heights Players’ “Show Boat.”
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By Mike McLaughlin
Jen Maufrais Kelly
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, loves the Gallery Players’ production of “The Who’s Tommy.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Johnray Fuller
Theater: Our reviewer raves about “The Nosemaker’s Apprentice” at the Brick Theater.
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By Evan Gardner
Nobby Clark
Theater: “The Merchant of Venice,” William Shakespeare’s controversial play about love, loss, revenge and Jews is coming to Brooklyn for a two-week run.
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By Ben Muessig
Theater: Meet Park Slope newest residents: a cutting-edge theater troupe that will call the neighborhood home.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, loves the Heights Players’ “Shakespeare in Hollywood.”
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By Mike McLaughlin
Checkin’ in with: “The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension” sits down with the new face of Park Slope’s legendary off- off-Broadway troupe.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bella Muccari
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin, the butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension, slams “Bus Stop” at the Gallery Players.
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By Emilia Brock
Theater: You may have just lost your job — but the last thing you want to sacrifice is your opera tickets. So, thankfully, the Brooklyn Repertory Opera is offering the newly jobless a $5 ticket to “Orpheus and Eurydice.”
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By Dustin Seplow
Theater: “The Producers” was one of the most-lauded shows in Broadway history. Now, it’ll be the most-expensive community theater production ever in Brooklyn.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Theater: Our critic raves about “The Winter’s Tale” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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By Ben Muessig
Richard Termine
Theater: Our critic raves about the funny take on Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Theater: The night belongs to the freaks and the people who adore them on Friday, Feb. 20, with the return of the Blowhole Theater’s “Winterlude,” a pageant of oddball entertainers and musicians.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Jen Maufrais Kelly
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Our critic raves about “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at the Gallery Players.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Waiting in the Wings: Lots of upcoming works on stage, including a raunchy tribute to Neil Diamond, the Jewish Elvis!
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By Ben Muessig
Theater: Something is rotten in Bay Ridge for an acclaimed Shakespearean theater troupe that is struggling to find home.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Joan Marcus
Theater: Our critic has a problem with the Sam Mendes-directed production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” at BAM.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Theater: The borough’s pre-eminent playwrights, from still-living legend Budd Schulberg (“On the Waterfront”) to comic David Lindsay-Abaire (“Fuddy Meers”), will be featured in their own series, starting next Saturday.
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