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Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park finally debuts its new indoor theater July 29-Aug. 13 with "Venus in Fur."

“The Revolutionists" features four women of revolutionary France, all of them feminists before their time, at City Repertory Theatre.

The Pine Island Playhouse will be performing a collection of David Ives one-act plays over two weekends at the end of February. According to playhouse founde

It begins as a strained interplay between a fretful playwright/director and a high-strung, vulgar actress desperate for an audition. No sooner had they acknowledged their unsuitable chemistry than they found themselves enmeshed in a clever pas de deux that blurs our sense of reality. It’s an intellectual dance that unearths a primal game of sexual submission and domination, echoing what happens in the novel. A compelling point of reference: “Masochism” is a word inspired by the author’s ...

From the blog of Douglas Gladstone at The Times of Israel

Tangled communication lines and altered realities filter through these plays like a virus streaming throughout a pandemic. The Adobe Theater will launch “Postcards from the Oddball Zone,” a trio of comedies at Video on Demand available Saturday, March 13 from 12:01 a.m. to Sunday, March 14 at 11:59 p.m. Tickets are $15 plus fees at adobetheater.org or 898-9222. Matthew Van Wettering “1-800” is a 10-minute one-act play by Joseph Sorrentino directed by James Cady. A phone call to an autom...