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2000 Stories by Max Sparber

• The Year in Theater

  published December 13, 2000

  The best and worst of 150 nights spent in a dark room, plus: dramatic hypotheses, and thespians speak out. More >>

• Lost in America

  published December 6, 2000

  The Margolis Brown Company's tragicomic search for the self takes them to the distant shores of suburbia. More >>

• Give My Regrets to Broadway

  published November 29, 2000

  Forbidden Broadway tries to blacken the Great White Way; Absurd Person Singular follows love's spiral toward sadism. More >>

• Estrangers in the Night

  published November 22, 2000

  Pavilion sends a former couple to their high school reunion; The Big Hoover breaches the dam of failed romances. More >>

• The Mission

  published November 15, 2000

  Gremlin Theatre stays true to The London Cuckolds; Mixed Blood arranges lives in Cut Flowers. More >>

• The Adventures of Kira Obolensky

  published November 8, 2000

  The author of the Adventures of Herculina may have stumbled upon her career, but the results are anything but awkward. More >>

• Punch Drunk

  published November 8, 2000

  Galumph turns politicians into puppets; Minnesota Musical Theater turns brain surgery into a song-and-dance routine. More >>

• Found in Translation

  published November 1, 2000

  Tom Stoppard scripts a love song to classical literature; Gwendolyn Schwinke revisits Sodom. More >>

• The Moral of the Story

  published October 25, 2000

  Stop Kiss preaches against intolerance; Dark of the Moon preaches against preachers. More >>

• To Split the Ears of the Groundlings

  published October 25, 2000

  Customary suits of solemn black: Periférico de Objetos' Hamletmachine More >>

• White Lines

  published October 18, 2000

  Playwright Djola Branner blows the roof off dramatic conventions with The House that Crack Built. More >>

• Ocean of Words

  published October 18, 2000

  Penumbra's new court drama unleashes a flood of accusations; the Guthrie's Anouilh adaptation recasts an imperfect romance. More >>

• The Dreamer Wakes

  published October 11, 2000

  Hidden Theatre prances through painful memories and regrets; the Ordway sings to fraternal forgiveness. More >>

• Send in the Clowns

  published September 27, 2000

  The Great Americ'n Play satirizes huge corporations and hand puppets; The Insatiate Countess gives a nymphomaniac a second chance. More >>

• Disembodied Voice

  published September 20, 2000

  Samuel Beckett's Happy Days returns to the Jungle Theater. More >>

• The Impossible Dream

  published September 13, 2000

  Don Quixote de la Minny places Cervantes's dreamer in the North Country; A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking lives up to... More >>

• As Seen on No TV

  published September 6, 2000

  Idiot Box channel their twitchy comedy into a live stage show. More >>

• Rhymes with Witch

  published August 30, 2000

  Laila Robins turns the Guthrie's Hedda Gabler into a character study of social sadism. More >>

• Babes in Arms

  published August 23, 2000

  Leslye Orr describes the tyranny of tots; Cirque du Soleil cavorts under the big top. More >>

• Everything Is Permitted

  published August 16, 2000

  Where to go to make an electronic drum out of your pickup truck--and other secrets of alternative art venues. More >>

• Three's Company

  published August 16, 2000

  Randy spouse-swappers fill The Crowded Bed; a hemophiliac learns to love in Shivaree. More >>

• Staging a Revolution

  published August 9, 2000

  Bedlam Theater finds a friend in controlled chaos; the Praxis Group mounts an eight-hour Hamletmachine. More >>

• Show of Force

  published July 26, 2000

  In the campaign to bolster troop morale, the military deploys a tactical weapon: The songs of Saturday Night Fever. More >>

• Time Warp

  published July 19, 2000

  The Guthrie stages a giddy Twelfth Night in the Roaring 1600s; Theater and Performance Co. creates a spectacle of surprise. More >>

• Theater of Cruelty

  published July 12, 2000

  True West brutalizes its actors; Impossible Marriage lightly lashes its audience More >>