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- Theater Review: ‘The Light in the Piazza’ (
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- Theater Review: Berkeley has ‘Trouble in Mind’ (
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- ‘Dreamgirls’ rocks the Curran (
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- Theater Review: ‘Menopause The Musical’ (
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- Theater Review: Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (San Francisco) (
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- SF Debut: Rapid Descent Performance (
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- Theater Review: Magic of Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ irrepressible (
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- San Francisco Mime Troupe delivers (
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- Step right up… to ‘Barnum’ (
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- Carmina Burana: Revisited (
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- Theater Review: ‘Rent’ at City Lights, San Jose (
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- Balloons drop on SF Symphony’s Season Finale (
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- You’re in good company at Urinetown (
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- SFArtsEd Players win fans (
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- Theater Review: ‘Auctioning the Ainsleys’ (
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- Mother Approves: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with the SF Symphony (
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- Lizards Invade the Dragon! (
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- Review: Final Fantasy with the San Francisco Symphony (
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- Review: Ed Asner’s solo performance in FDR (
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- Foresight wins, virtually and actually (
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- Theater Review: Vanities at Northside (
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- Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (review) (
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- Theater Review: ‘The Fantasticks’ at SF Playhouse (
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- Theater Review: Glee does Berkeley at ‘Speech & Debate’ (
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- Theater Review: The Marvelous Wonderettes (
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- Dinner Theater: Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco (
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- Prune Hamentashen may blow, but JEWTOPIA rules! (
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- Theater Review: ‘The Tosca Project’ (
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- Theater Review: ‘Opus’ at TheatreWorks earns standing ovation (
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- More Tuna, PLEASE! (
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- Theater Review: ‘Second Weekend in September’ at City Lights (
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- ‘Guys and Dolls’ a magical outdoor theater experience at Mountain Play (
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- Bus Barn ends their season on a high note (
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- Fahrenheit 451: Burning books in Palo Alto (
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- Theater Review: ‘In the Wake’ at Berkeley Rep (
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- Theater Review: ‘Giant Bones’ intrigues, challenges San Francisco audience (
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- Theater Review: ‘Sonia Flew’ an emotional powerhouse (
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- Theater Review: ‘In the Heights’ an inspired celebration (
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- Theater Review: ‘Peter Pan’ gets the Avatar treatment in San Francisco (
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- Theater Review: ‘Gypsy’ at Hillbarn (
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- Theater Review: ‘Round and Round the Garden’ over-intellectualizes bawdy (
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- Theater Review: ‘Slasher’ at SF Playhouse, not off the hook (
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- Fantastically funny, ‘Anton in Show Business’ opens in Palo Alto (
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- Theater Review: Big hats, big laughs at ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ (
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- Theater Review: ‘RENT’ by Palo Alto Players receives standing ovation (
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- 10th anniversary ‘Teatro ZinZanni’ a memorable evening of sexy cirque, cabaret (
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- Theater Review: ‘An Accident’ at Magic Theatre, San Francisco (
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- Theater Review: ‘Dirty Blonde’ Mae West at The Stage (
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- Review: ‘Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show’ (
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- Theater Review: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Girlfriend’ musical shines (
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- Theater Review: TheatreWorks’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ elegant, touching (
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- Theater Review: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley (
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- Theater Review: ‘Circus Finelli’ is David Lynch approved entertainment – Nein! (
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- Theater Review: ‘Vigil’ at A.C.T. with Olympia Dukakis (
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- A mad, mad, mad world: Kushner’s ‘The Illusion’ at The Pear (
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- Theater Review: ‘Frank Langella’s Cyrano’ at City Lights Theater (
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- Theater Review: ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ brings the Harlem Renaissance to San Jose (
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- Theater Review: ‘Legally Blonde’ at Broadway San Jose (
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- Theater Review: ‘Den of Thieves’ a sure thing, donuts to dollars (
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- Theater Review: ‘Sunsets and Margaritas’ at TheatreWorks (
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- Theater Review: ‘Burn This’ premieres at Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto (
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- Theater Review: ‘Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West’ is wondrously inventive (
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- RealD 3D at Cinequest: Now I’m a believer
- Film Review: ‘The Ferrari Dino Girl’
- Theatre Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ World Premiere throws many curve balls for the senses (
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- Film Review: ‘Peepers’ a bare butt buffet of laughs
- Film Review: ‘Applause (Applaus)’
- Film Review: ‘Life in One Day (Het leven uit een dag)’
- Film Review: ‘Kill the Habit’
- Film Review: ‘The Bone Man’ an Austrian Fargo with German cars and a twist
- Theater Review: ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ at The Stage is substantive and ambitious (
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- Film Review: ‘FrICTION’ a clever “fourth wall” film
- Film Review: ‘Cooking History’ the ultimate Food Network and The History Channel mash-up
- Film Review: ‘Raspberry Magic’
- Film Review: ‘The Tijuana Project’
- Theater Review: Alfaro unleashes the full poignancy of ‘Oedipus el Rey’ at Magic’s World Premiere (
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- Film Review: ‘Passenger Side’
- Film Review: ‘Paulista (Quanto Dura o Amor?)’
- Film Review: ‘Little Fish, Strange Pond’ with Mathew Modine
- Theater review: ‘Animals Out of Paper’ unfolds beautifully at SF Playhouse (
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- Theater review: Irish storytelling in ‘The Weir’ haunts, mesmerizes (
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- Theater Review: ‘The First Grade’ a most con·ge·nial play (
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- Theater review: Making sense of loss in ‘Rabbit Hole’ (
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- Shel Silverstein Lights up the Dragon Theatre (
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- ‘Daddy Long Legs’ warms the heart (
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- Theater review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ premieres at City Lights Theater in San Jose (
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- Theater review: ‘Bermuda Avenue Triangle’ the funniest ménage à trois you’ll ever see (
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- Theater review: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Coming Home’ is touching, sobering and wonderful (
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- Theater review: ‘Phèdre’ classy and unflinching, Seana McKenna shines (
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- Theater review: Puppets gone wild at ‘Avenue Q’ @broadwaysanjose (
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- Theater review: ‘Speed-the-Plow’ brimming with intense, smart dialog at The Pear Theatre (
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- ‘It Might Get Loud’ … and you’ll love it (film review) (
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- Cinequest film review: Library politics meets goth in dark comedy ‘Shelf Life’ (
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- Broadway San Jose: ‘Riverdance’ throws a party of dance, song and music, Irish-style (
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- Theater review: ‘Cinderella’ enchants, casts magical spell of non-stop laugher for entire family (
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- Theater review: ‘Yes Sweet Can’ inspires with artistic circus act in San Francisco (
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- Theater review: A bee-hive rockin’ Christmas in Berkeley (
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- Cinequest film: ‘Batad’ a heart-warming story of honor, loyalty and tradition (
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- Theater review: ‘Aurelia’s Oratorio’ at Berkeley Rep dazzles with quirky charm (
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- Theater review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at ACT is a smash hit! (
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- Theater review: ‘A Civil War Christmas’ a classy, historic celebration (
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- Theater review: ‘Another Night Before Christmas’ at City Lights Theatre, San Jose (
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- Theater review: You’ll shoot your eye out with laughter at ‘A Christmas Story’ #ACStory (
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- Theater review: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Berkeley Playhouse, first class family entertainment (
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- Theater review: ‘The Seafarer’ at San Jose Stage Company (
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- Theater review: ‘She Stoops to Comedy’ West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse (
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- Theater review: Side Man, singing the Blues at the Dragon Theatre (
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- Theater review: ‘FAT PIG’ a captivating take on self-image in America (
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- San Francisco Opera: Verdi’s ‘Otello’ intoxicates with jealousy and glorious arias (
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- ‘Mrs. Whitney’ delights with humor while devulging love’s desperation (
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- Theater review: ‘November’ a turkey (
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- Theater review: ‘The Bald Soprano’ an acid trip in the Tenderloin, how curious! (
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- Theater review: ‘Spring Awakening’ delivers Broadway hit to San Jose in style (
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- ‘Steel Magnolias’ celebrates the trust and friendship of women and the importance of great hair (
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- Theater review: ‘The Creature’ an unbelievably good story (
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- Theater review: ‘Tiny Kushner’ a cerebral five course meal served by a master chef (
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- Cinequest film: ‘Fandom’ a twisted journey (
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- Theater review: ‘Groundswell’ a frothing thriller set to full boil (
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- Theater review: ‘Goldfish’ West Coast premiere at Magic Theatre (
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- Theater review: ‘The Chosen’ an ideological evening (
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- Theater review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre (
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- Theater review: ‘First Day of School’ brings laughs (
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- Theater review: ‘The Pillowman’ a horrifically good time (
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- Theater review: ‘American Idiot’ an energetic journey with confused purpose (
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- ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’: Wickedly hilarious and provocatively profound (
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- Theater review: ‘Brief Encounter’ a masterful composition of classic cinema and theater (
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- Theater review: ‘Awake and Sing!’ pulls no punches (
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- ‘As You Like It’: New season, new artistic director and new look at a Shakespeare classic (
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- Theater review: ‘The Memory of Water’ in Palo Alto (
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- Cinequest short: ‘Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot’ (
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- Theater review: ‘Yellow Face’ an entertaining look at race in America (
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- Review: ‘Falling’ does well with limited Indie budget (
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- Amargosa: Strength of creative spirit amidst the desert (
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- Theater review: ‘Tommy’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre in Half Moon Bay (
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- In Review: ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ cunningly wins you over (
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- Theater review: SF Playhouse ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ captures emotion, oppression, spirit (
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- Theater review: ‘Peter Pan’ musical is Berkeley’s sun, moon and stars (
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- ‘Tinyard Hill’ Premiere: Summer love, grand aspirations in small town Georgia (
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- Theater Review: ‘Tommy’, an energetic evening with the pinball wizard (
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- The Second City at SJ Rep showcases best of improv and sketch comedy (
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- Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’, a rollercoaster of satire (
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- Theater Review: Stamp of approval for ‘Mauritius’ (
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- Theater review: Edward Albee’s ‘At Home at the Zoo’ at A.C.T. San Francisco (
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- Review: ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ hits all the right road kill (
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- ‘Stop Kiss’ at City Lights Theater: A touching play about a meaningful kiss (
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- ‘Boleros for the Disenchanted’: A heart-wrenching romance about love and longing (
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- Film review: ‘The Last Lullaby’ delivers — Director Jeffrey Goodman one to watch (
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- ‘Spelling Bee’ musical: A tasty alphabet soup of zingers and tittups (
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- ‘Always… Patsy Cline’: A toe-tapping, good time at the Grand Ole San Jose Stage Company (
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- ‘War Music’ at ACT: A play full of dissonance, a symphony it is not (
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- ‘Afghanistan 1970-1975, Images from an Era of Peace’ at the San Jose Rep (
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- ‘The Kite Runner’ World Premiere: A thousand splendid standing ovations (
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- In Review: Wicked (The Musical – Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire) (
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