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• Unhinged Productions Mounts a Festival of New Plays, Drama-rama-thon

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Wed, February 1, 2012

  ​ Joe Angel Babb, the artistic director of Unhinged Productions, doesn't mind if the group's latest project doesn't make any money. In fact, he pretty much expects Drama-rama-thon, a festival More >

• Tenderina from FrenetiCore: Plenty of Confusion, Not Enough Striptease

  By Mandy Oaklander | Wed, December 7, 2011

  ​When I heard that Tenderina, a new production by FrenetiCore, was a play, a dance performance, a film work, a poem and a striptease, I was skeptical. This sounded like a show with an identity c More >

• Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

  By D.L. Groover | Mon, October 17, 2011

  ​The setup: Playwright Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Psycho Beach Party; Die, Mommy, Die) didn't invent camp, but his early drag classics most assuredly enriched and, dare I More >

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  Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, October 13, 2011

  The title to the campy comedy Vampire Lesbians of Sodom gives you a big hint as to the plot of the story, admits director Joe Angel Babb, but there’s more to it than that. In the play, vampires, who are beautiful, suave and alluring, have become ... More >

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna in the Tropics, Damaged Divas of the Decades, Ether Dome, Farragut North, Republic Day, Woof

  By D.L. Groover, Jim J. Tommaney | Thu, September 22, 2011

  Anna in the Tropics While the cigar rollers toil in a small factory in '20s Tampa, Florida, a new "lector" reads to them to pass the time and alleviate boredom. He chooses Tolstoy's classic tale of adulterous passions Anna Karenina, and their live... More >

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  allison.mg1388

  | Sun, December 11, 2011

  Event Review: Tenderina | Fri, December 02, 2011

  There are some misleading points in this description of the show. Tenderina is the surreal story of a stripper who becomes a ballerina, not the other way around. And, more than that, it is about her journey to self-revelation. A multi-media collaboration based on a script by poet and playwright Loueva Smith and directed by Cliff Mabry, with original film and music by Robert Thoth and dance choreography by Rebecca French, “Tenderina” is a thought-provoking and humorous show that you can’t bring the kids to! Featuring Allison Gregory Jones as Tenderina, a.k.a. ‘The Girl Matador’; Allen Bauman as the psychedelic angel and voodoo musician, Kirk; Benito Vasquez as Tim, the accuser at a surreal trial where Tenderina is defended by the one-eyed storyteller Lee, played by Loueva Smith. Tenderina pivots into a journey of self-discovery and faces many unresolved questions as she learns what it means to be a dancer.

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