Pike/Pine

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Green Whales

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Not Everything Kinky is Unhealthy

Usually when I go to see a show with a small cast, in the back room of a café, I do not expect to see such an amazingly polished script or cast, as Forward Flux Productions presented in the “auditorium” of the Kaladi Brothers Coffee Shop/Gay City bookstore in lower Capitol Hill last Friday night. Green Whales, by Lia Romeo, defied all my expectations , being a truly amazing script with superb dialogue, a coherent plot, a quirky premise and one of the quickest most engaging pieces of exposition I have ever seen. The excellent direction by Wesley Frugé, added to the delight.

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Of Mice and Men

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“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Expressed one of the major themes in the outstanding stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which previewed on June 19th at the Eclectic Theatre.

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The Lisbon Traviata

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Coupla Gay Guys Sitting Around Playing Opera Trivial Pursuit

Or so it seemed in the First Act of The Liston Traviata by Terence McNally, produced by Theatre 22, at Richard Hugo House, as the first annual installment of their June “Pride Series”. Although this play discusses profound relationship and personal issues against a backdrop of gay life, at a pivotal historical time and place, its message is universal.

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Checkoff in the Sun

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Not quite Chekhov

Checkoff in the Sun, a “World Premier” which is really a sophisticated name for an original script opened this weekend at the Eclectic Theatre, in Capitol Hill. As its name implies, there is a connection between it and Chekhov the Russian playwright. Like many of Chekov’s plays, a group of interconnected relatives and friends are gathered in an isolated country house for a few days and spend the time discussing life’s disappointments.

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Flame in the Mirror

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Five Star Production in the Hood

Perhaps the best show I have reviewed this whole season, Flame in the Mirror, opened this weekend, at Eclectic Theatre Company in the Pike/Pine corridor, written by a Capitol Hill homeboy, playwright, John Ruoff.

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