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Mammon from Heaven?

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O my Gad! Josh Gad is the lyin' king of Uganda -- or at least his character, the mendacious missionary Cunningham, is, in a musical that musses up the silver-hair of Broadway for fun and prophet. As the prevaricating preacher of Mormon missionary positions in Africa, the cunning yet incapable Mormon elder has rewritten the religion's text to sex so...

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Someone's in the 'Kitchen' With Shira

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Michael Elkin

So, what are they serving up in "Bubby's Kitchen"? Pots full of smarts, says Shira Ginsburg. "A lot of it," she says proudly of her family, "other people's wisdom." Someone's in the "Kitchen" with Shira -- her bubby and five other family female members -- in this six-pack of a party that is so laden with happiness and tears, Golda...

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Alice in Wildhorn-Land

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Michael Elkin

Alice doesn't live here anymore. She's escrowed her abode in the rabbit's hole for a tonier time in Mad-hattan, earning bows in the bowels of the Marriott Marquis Theatre on Broadway, attending tea parties that would have Michele Bachmann breaking open the scones and cream. It's actually all smoke and mirrors and looking glasses peering back at Lewis Carroll's classic...

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Theater for What Ails You?

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Michael Elkin

Wishing "L'chaim" to Anna Deavere Smith is not so much a toast to good health as test of talent. Indeed, raising a glass in hope helps raise the bar of how high she is willing to go to expose the health-care experience that is in extremis in this country. If all the world's a stage, all the health-care industry should...

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'Eyes' Wide Open

Israeli veteran, Iraqi serviceman bond in Bristol to serve up play on wages of war

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Michael Elkin

Don't ask, don't tell -- don't regret. That is what Jeff Key does in "The Eyes of Babylon," a visionary one-man show of a thousand emotions in which the former Marine lance sergeant ultimately questions the U.S. government's war policy in Iraq. Shipped stateside to recover from a hernia acquired during duty earlier this millennium, he found a hole in...