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(1) Caroline, or Change (pictured) and Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy by Tony Kushner. America's resident theater genius and leftist left·ism also Left·ism  
n.
1. The ideology of the political left.

2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left.



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 town crier CRIER. An inferior officer of a court, whose duty it is to open and adjourn the court, when ordered by the judges; to make proclamations and obey the directions of the court in anything which concerns the administration of justice.  returns with a brave, unsparing Broadway musical (written with composer Jeanine Tesori) and a few hot-ticket benefit performances of his one-act fantasy featuring Laura Bush, some dead Iraqi children, and an angel.

(2) Well by Lisa Kron Lisa Kron is a Tony Award nominated American actress and playwright. Biography
Lisa Kron (birth name Elizabeth S. Kron) was born May 20,1961 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
, The founding member of Five Lesbian Brothers scores with another one-woman show, this time dedicated to her off-kilter mother.

(3) Laugh Whore by Mario Cantone. One-man show-off Cantone--late of Sex and the City and Assassins--delivers the vim and venom missing from gay-life Broadway.

(4) The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer and The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel. New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 revivals of Kramer's call to arms and Vogel's touching allegory remind us that the AIDS crisis has not abated.

(5) Assassins by Stephen Sondheim. The out bard finally gets a worthy Broadway production of his quirkiest work.

(6) Five Flights by Adam Bock. With the year's best gay male kiss, locker-room antics, and a family fight over an aviary aviary

Structure for keeping captive birds, usually spacious enough for the aviculturist to enter. Aviaries range from small enclosures to large flight cages 100 ft (30 m) or more long and up to 50 ft (15 m) high. Enclosures for birds that fly only little or weakly (e.g.
, it was the most original show of off Broadway's '04 season.

(7) Like a Dog on Linoleum by Leslie Jordan, Will & Grace's funniest recurring queen takes center stage in Los Angeles for a biting, hilarious autobiographical monologue.

(8) James Baldwin: Down From the Mountaintop moun·tain·top  
n.
The summit of a mountain.
 by Calvin Levels. A great actor channels a great writer in a national tour, with readings, anecdotes, and contemporary political commentary.

(9) Hollywood Hell House. An antigay fundamentalist "haunted house" becomes self-parody with an all-star cast.

(10) The Mis-Match Game. This recurring Los Angeles happening reimagines the '70s TV game show Match Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.
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Title Annotation:Best of the year
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 18, 2005
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