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There's a new theater trade show in the area, and it's running at New Village Arts
Above average
A Nice Family Gathering is the playgoer’s A Prairie Home Companion
Idle worship
Nazi despotism sold short in well-acted but underdeveloped Bent
Second wind
Dog Act: MOXIE’s right-damn talkytale is shockered as evers it were
Fighting fire
Lamb's Players' superior Joyful Noise is an honest-to-God bioplay
Second coming
Cygnet’s decent Man from Nebraska: There’s no place like home, even if home is Lincoln
High note
American jazz is mostly off the radar, and Side Man thinks it knows why
Numb skulls
For a play that can’t find a point, NVA’s Things We Want isn’t all bad
Sound advice
Matt Scott shines in Ion Theatre’s Speed-the-Plow, but the audience won’t hear of it
Knight off
There's a big difference between theater and film; with Spamalot, Mike Nichols shows he gets it
Missing links
MOXIE’s Drink Me pits three women against 4,000 men; both sides win
Sound stage
Reality TV has nothing on Lamb’s Players’ good Leaving Iowa
There, there
In the end, Triad Productions' Shopping & Fucking can't get enough of itself but still gets a B for effort
Wong idea
Actor's hard work can’t save La Jolla Playhouse’s baseless Herringbone
Staying power
Motown giants drive everything good about Globe’s First Wives Club
