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It’s like a gift within a gift that just keeps on giving, the matryoshka doll of the theater if you will. [title of show], or [tos] for short, is a musical about two average Joes writing a musical.

Like it or not, there’s only one month left until school. But before you get ready to hit the books, enjoy cheap summer theater during the height the festival season.

In a society where even a Pixar confection about cute robots carries intense subtext about the dangers of our consumer culture, where can a person turn for some good, old fashioned, shallow fun?

It is commonly said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or that beauty is only skin deep. But how much truth do these common clichés really hold in our undeniably superficial society?

In the past two years, New York City has become acquainted with the hypnotic language of the Irish playwright, Conor McPherson. His plays Shining City and The Seafarer have both achieved critical success on Broadway and the latest production of his work stands as a testament to the mesmerizing power of storytelling.

With an exceedingly talented and committed cast, Saved is born again—this time in musical form on the main stage of off-Broadway company Playwrights Horizons. Based on the popular indie flick staring Jena Malone and Mandy Moore, the basic story stays fairly true to form, focusing on the plights of senior-year students at an evangelical Christian high school.

Many confuse Maine for a northern region of Massachusetts. But in Chad Beckim’s new, semi-autobiographic drama, The Main(e) Play, he gives the state an important role as the point of conflict in addition to the setting within the story.