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		<title>Slinging Misfortune’s Arrows as Night Flies By</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/14/slinging-misfortunes-arrows-as-night-flies-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 06:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Fennelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Theater Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fly by Night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giuseppe Verdi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A riddle: why are some contemporary rock musicals like drinking diet soda? Answer: They both leave a taste that is flat and not refreshing; both are “sweetened” with unhealthy gimmicks. Such is the case of the much hyped, insignificant, little rock musical playing currently at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre, aptly titled Fly By Night. Is &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/14/slinging-misfortunes-arrows-as-night-flies-by/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5409&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petal-Plucking Princess Wars Please at Fun House Theatre</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/10/petal-plucking-princess-wars-please-at-fun-house-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 03:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daffodil Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Mamet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun House Theatre and Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Youth theatre with a raw edge? Find it by the compost heap-full at Fun House Theatre and Film in Plano. Performing through May12th, this Sunday, Jeff Swearingen’s cadre of talented, dedicated mademoiselles present Daffodil Girls, his comic parody adaptation of David Mamet’s celebrated drama Glengarry Glen Ross and come out Olympic champs. Swearingen turns &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/10/petal-plucking-princess-wars-please-at-fun-house-theatre/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5405&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar &amp; spice &amp; not very nice? Fun House Theatre&#8217;s Daffodil Girls</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/06/sugar-spice-not-very-nice-fun-house-theatres-daffodil-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 17:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good times roll again at Fun House Theatre in Plano, starting this Tuesday May 7. Daffodil Girls will work its nefarious charms and prick up the neck hairs on an unsuspecting audience. Find it a down and dirty, accurately voiced parody of David Mamet’s 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross as the female members of Jeff Swearingen’s &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/05/06/sugar-spice-not-very-nice-fun-house-theatres-daffodil-girls/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5394&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glory Affirmed: &#8220;Glory Denied&#8221; at Fort Worth Opera</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/25/glory-affirmed-glory-denied-at-fort-worth-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dean Anthony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penetrating, sharp as razor wire wrapped around a bamboo prison compound. Resonant, brimming over with grief, suffering and bitterness &#8212; yet transcendent, profoundly humanizing in its poetic homage to a forgotten American hero&#8230;. Composer Tom Cipullo’s one-act opera Glory Denied, playing through May 11 as part of Fort Worth Opera’s 2013 Festival, captures the somber &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/25/glory-affirmed-glory-denied-at-fort-worth-opera/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5382&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Passing Grace: Angels Fall @ Contemporary Theatre of Dallas</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/21/a-passing-grace-angels-fall-contemporary-theatre-of-dallas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angels Fall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rene Moreno]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Expressing exuberance when quoted in a 1982 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article as his new play Angels Fall worked its way towards Broadway, playwright Lanford Wilson exclaimed,  “The writing is as good as anything I’ve ever done. I don’t think I’ve ever had a show that audiences liked so much, except maybe Talley’s Folly.” Even as nominated &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/21/a-passing-grace-angels-fall-contemporary-theatre-of-dallas/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5374&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bonifield named NTX Writer for &#8220;NewCrit Critics&#8221; on HowlRound.com</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/20/bonifield-named-ntx-writer-for-newcrit-critics-on-howlround-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Bonifield]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Polly Carl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Criticism, Vitriol, and Announcing Our NewCrit Critics on HowlRound.com Polly Carl April 20, 2013 A couple of months ago we announced that we would add criticism to the HowlRound site. The idea met with both great enthusiasm and deep skepticism. We expected this. When we originally discussed this idea with a large group of advisors, &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/20/bonifield-named-ntx-writer-for-newcrit-critics-on-howlround-com/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5371&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spice Up the Night with Nina Katrina at Sammons Cabaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dave Zoller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bucklin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to spice up your Sammons Cabaret Night with international flavor? Add Nina Katrina; tune up her accompanists, and feel Kurth Hall sizzle. This Thursday, April 18, is your chance to experience the unique styling and world-class repertoire of this Dallas-based international songbird. You don’t want to miss her. The eldest child born into a &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/15/spice-up-the-night-with-nina-katrina-at-sammons-cabaret/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5364&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Earnest Cooperation: Oscar Wilde in Oklahoma City</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/10/the-importance-of-earnest-cooperation-oscar-wilde-in-oklahoma-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debra Hicks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey R. Sherwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if Stephen Colbert wrote and directed a full satire episode of “Downton Abbey”. That’s what Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” feels like in Oklahoma City University’s accommodating thrust Burg Theatre space. A standout, signature co-production by Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (City REP), Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and OCU’s Theatre Department, it &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/10/the-importance-of-earnest-cooperation-oscar-wilde-in-oklahoma-city/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5349&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">D. Lance Marsh&#039;s cast poses on the Burg Theatre set of &#34;The Importance of Being Earnest&#34; at OCU</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Those naughty muffin-loving boys: Hunter Paul as Algernon(l), Andi Dema as Jack (r)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lauren Thompson as Cecily (l), Renee Lawrence as Gwendolyn (r)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Andi Dema as Jack courts Renee Lawrence as Gwendolyn</media:title>
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		<title>Light Illuminating Dark: A.L.Rowse and Shakespeare’s Dark Lady</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/05/light-illuminating-dark-a-l-rowse-and-shakespeares-dark-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A.L.Rowse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew B. Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodleian Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Vahle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Lady]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playwright William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Twenty-four of them address his passionate love for an un-named person known as &#8220;the dark lady”, someone he described as ‘a woman color&#8217;d ill&#8217; with black eyes and dark, coarse hair. Speculation about her identity has raged across the centuries, with several historical women often debated as candidates. One &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/05/light-illuminating-dark-a-l-rowse-and-shakespeares-dark-lady/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5337&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Controversial &#34;Dark Lady&#34; scholar A.L.Rowse with his cat Peter</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrew B. Harris during research at Oxford</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A page from Simon Forman&#039;s casebooks</media:title>
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		<title>Neither Virgin Nor Whore: WIT at Theatre Arlington</title>
		<link>http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/04/neither-virgin-nor-whore-wit-at-theatre-arlington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Bonifield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Lavallee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Scott Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krista Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Edson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theatre arlington]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need more plays like “W;t”, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer prize for Drama by Margaret Edson, about a professor of literature facing her impending death through the lens of her life’s embrace. Vivian is neither virgin nor whore. The only pedestal she stands on is one of her own making. She isn’t any version &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://criticalrant.com/2013/04/04/neither-virgin-nor-whore-wit-at-theatre-arlington/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalrant.com&#038;blog=4879131&#038;post=5331&#038;subd=sjamaanka&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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