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Karen Bozicevich


Next to the fame of Tennessee Williams classics such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Summer and Smoke seems like the obscure brother of the family: the one who stayed home when everyone else went to Hollywood.

A medieval duel

If you have ever passed by the grass near Ruffner Hall and were stunned when you saw a crowd of people in medieval dress sword fighting, you are not alone.

Imagine a world in which pornography is completely illegal and the only way to obtain it is to order it by mail from Scandinavia.

The Myth of Medea

The University's drama department launched its "RecentWorks" series last week with a Helms Theatre production of the modern tragedy By the Bog of Cats, which is based loosely on the Greek myth of Medea and tells the story of Hester Swane, a hardened outcast whose gypsy mother abandoned her as a child.

The Glass Menagerie

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve," Tom Wingfield, played by Alex Grubbs, tells the audience in the very first line of the drama department's production of The Glass Menagerie.

Woodstock was cool, yet film not

Taking Woodstock is an unbelievable film purely because it has achieved the impossible: It has managed to portray the most infamously exciting cultural event of the century as profoundly and extraordinarily boring. The movie poster, with its multicolored, kaleidoscopic design, promises us a psychedelic tour of the musical phantasmagoria that was Woodstock.

She Loves Me!

Everyone, no matter what gender, craves a night of chick-flickery every so often - a night of crashing in front of the TV (or in the seats of the theater, as the case may be) in one's pajamas with a box of tissues and a gallon of ice cream, preparing to escape into the sunny world of romantic musical theater.

First Year Players presents a witty, slightly potty-mouthed comedy

For a musical titled Urinetown, I was delighted to find that First Year Players' fall show was not, in fact, a succession of bathroom jokes told in song, but an offbeat, witty and ironic satire of musical theater itself. The premise is purposefully ridiculous: In the near future, a worldwide drought has caused a catastrophic water shortage, and so private toilets have become outlawed.

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