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    Articles by Kevin Phinney
    Don't date him! He's evil! Hsieh (left) as Ming, with Cushman as Robert.
    Opening Nights: A Language of Their Own
    By Kevin Phinney • April 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Gay romance gone bad.

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    Muirhead as one of the overbearing prospective mothers-in-law.
    Opening Nights: It Shoulda Been You
    By Kevin Phinney • April 17, 2012 12:00 am

    Dowdy dialogue straight out of the playwright’s primer.

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    Ankrim and Karbacz meet cute.
    Opening Nights: First Date
    By Kevin Phinney • April 3, 2012 12:00 am

    This world-premiere musical never seems anything but authentic.

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    Matthews and Nahm amid the mess.
    Opening Nights: Stuck
    By Kevin Phinney • March 27, 2012 12:00 am

    A bathroom as a metaphor for baggage.

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    Daisey before the fall.
    The Foxconn Con
    By Kevin Phinney • March 21, 2012 12:00 am

    After giving a rave to Mike Daisey’s Apple take-down last year, a critic reconsiders his opinion.

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    Just like old times? Rowe (left) and Pratt share Seattle memories.
    Opening Nights: Emerald City
    By Kevin Phinney • March 20, 2012 12:00 am

    Learning Seattle’s codes.

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    Taylor (in foreground), before Eliza's makeover.
    Opening Nights: Pygmalion
    By Kevin Phinney • February 28, 2012 12:00 am

    Seattle Shakes gets everything right.

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    Garrison's heroine plays back an unreliable history.
    Opening Nights: I Am My Own Wife
    By Kevin Phinney • February 14, 2012 12:00 am

    Contradictions and shadowy truths in Nick Garrison’s flawless performance.

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    Jen Nelson and Todd Hull are among the large Cocktails cast.
    Stage: Four Sheets to the Wind
    By Kevin Phinney • February 7, 2012 12:00 am

    Get tipsy before seeing Cocktails at the Centre of the Earth.

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    Phone buddies Sumpter, el-Gasseir, Nako, and Andriessen.
    Opening Nights: The Callers
    By Kevin Phinney • January 24, 2012 12:00 am

    A musical take on phone-sex work.

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    From left: Noah Luce, Barry Cogswell, Jeremy Behrens amid the Mormon murk.
    Opening Nights: The Mormon Bird Play
    By Kevin Phinney • November 8, 2011 12:00 am

    In which grown men play pubescent girls.

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    CB (Goldstein) questions the appeal of skanky Marcie (Hill).
    Stage: An Unwelcome Update on the Peanuts Gang
    By Kevin Phinney • October 18, 2011 12:00 am

    The Peanuts gang cast off their innocence, and charm, as teenage waste-cases.

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    Pisoni takes us inside the ring.
    Opening Nights: Humor Abuse
    By Kevin Phinney • October 11, 2011 12:00 am

    The story of a life in the circus, with more showmanship than show.

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    Fabulous farm boy Smith-Stewart.
    Opening Nights: MilkMilk Lemonade
    By Kevin Phinney • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

    A surreal tale of two Southern boys, one blatant, one latent.

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    Foubert and Platz as stranded travelers.
    Opening Nights: September Skies
    By Kevin Phinney • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

    A fateful hook-up on 9/11 eve.

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    The playwright (Yim, left) and his disapproving dad (Henry Vu).
    Opening Nights: Yellow Face
    By Kevin Phinney • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    A semi-autobiographical, semi-farcical look at theater and race.

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    No sand in their pants: From left, Gonzales, Iglehart, Keenan-Bolger, Jacobs, and O'Neill.
    Rubbing for Dollars
    By Kevin Phinney • July 26, 2011 12:00 am

    Disney’s new Aladdin adaptation doesn’t need Broadway to be profitable.

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    Scott Shoemaker, in the first of his two Cloud roles.
    Opening Nights: Cloud Nine
    By Kevin Phinney • July 19, 2011 12:00 am

    Caryl Churchill’s gender-bending–well, everything-bending–is entrancing and utterly daft.

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    Cast members Aaron Allhouse (left) and Nathan Pringle embrace the silly.
    Opening Nights: Arrh! . . . A Dinosaur...
    By Kevin Phinney • July 12, 2011 12:00 am

    Kids will love it, though–or perhaps because–it’s nonsense.

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    The Gene Pool's worried mothers (Meckler, left, and Carey), with their dad-curious son (Johnson).
    Opening Nights: The Gene Pool
    By Kevin Phinney • June 14, 2011 12:00 am

    Well-intentioned caricatures instead of characters make this a shallow pool indeed.

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