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The best of 2008's theater productions
First, a tribute to a few of the year's newer theater ventures.
By BY MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 23, 2008

Two virtuoso actors play four hilarious characters
Vaudevillian intimacies are rampant in Charles Ludlam’s Obie-winning two-men-as-everyone comedy, The Mystery of Irma Vep .
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 23, 2008

Moral flexibility

Investigating the darkness with Tom Jones
As a professional morality consultant stands naked and busted in a young woman’s closet, we in the audience receive a rather acute observation about virtue.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 08, 2007

Courageous convicts

My Three Angels at the Theater at Monmouth
On this hot Christmas Eve in the penal colony of French Guiana, the good Ducotel family’s lot could certainly use some improvement.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 11, 2007

Woman power

Supporting cast outshines the stars
The Cypress setting of Shakespeare’s Othello , classically directed by Sally Wood for the Theater at Monmouth, is a system of frequently rearranged wooden docks and walkways.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 09, 2006

Spirits + sprites

Humanity deserted, reborn at Monmouth
The near-uninhabited spirit island of Shakespeare’s The Tempest , at the Theater at Monmouth, is evoked with a set swathed in white.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 12, 2006