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12/08/11--03:00: Held-fast classic (chan 1517636)

UM smartly revives You Can't Take It With You by Erika Fredrickson You Can't Take It With You is a classic play and also, easily, a clichéd choice for high school and college drama departments everywhere. The story by playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart of an eccentric household led by a tax-evading grandfather opened in New York in 1936, so it's several decades old.…

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01/19/12--03:00: Tomorrow today (chan 1517636)

Ringing Out is a future story for us by Erika Fredrickson Imagining the post-apocalypse has brought about all sorts of thrilling stories: even scarier zombies than before; nightmarish disease creating unhinged panic; dark, Cormac McCarthy-esque landscapes lurking with the kinds of demons that spring up when civilization unravels. Ringing Out, the new original play by Josh Wagner, is also a post-apocalyptic exploration, but it’s a smarter take with an emphasis on carefully wrought characters.…

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01/26/12--03:00: Gravitational force (chan 1517636)

UM's Doubt deserves more tension by Dave Loos In the opening scene of Doubt, Father Brendan Flynn delivers a sermon with such confidence and zeal that we immediately like himquite the accomplishment given the uneasy undercurrent of the sermon's subject. In the realm of religion, uncertainty and crises of faith can come off as weakness, but Flynn is the kind of reassuring charismatic character that can put his flock at ease.…

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