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A Streetcar Named Desire by Ten Thousand Things Theater

“I don’t want realism,” Blanche DuBois cries in A Streetcar Named Desire (Ten Thousand Things Theater, various venues, through May 26), “I want magic!” The great Tennessee Williams serves up juicy dollops of both in this play.  Streetcar celebrates eroticism,…

Doubt, A Parable at Ten Thousand Things Theater

Does anyone doubt Father Flynn’s innocence? John Patrick Shanley‘s masterful Doubt, A Parable (Ten Thousand Things Theater, through March 6) is often portrayed as a mystery.  Did Flynn, as Sister Aloysius so stridently claims, really commit “an indiscretion” with the…

Life’s A Dream by Ten Thousand Things Theater

At first it’s off-putting, the lack of any stage lighting at a Ten Thousand Things play.  Blinking fluorescents, the glare of the late morning sun, the institutional playing space (conference rooms, cafeterias).  But soon you find yourself leaning forward, eager…