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Em Whitmore (left) as Ava and Megan Anderson (right) as Elanor in Different Words for Happiness at Everyman Theatre 📷 Teresa Castracane

Different Words for Happiness at Everyman Theatre

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Theatricity— the happiness you experience when the electrical nature of live theatre simultaneously tickles your funny bone and gives a hard yank on your heartstrings. The word is mine, the notion gently borrowed from and inspired by the master wordsmith— playwright and Everyman resident company member— Katie Kleiger, author of Different Words for Happiness, presently making its world premiere as the second play of the 2026/2027 season. A properly evocative, emotional roller coaster,

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Review: The Menaechmi Twins at CCBC Academic Theatres

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Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Countymen! The day of coming together for brutal group stabbings has most recently passed! But the day of coming together for group giggling, or more aptly, group laughter-induced-explosions is upon us! A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my praise unspeakable— for there be so much of it, I risk stealing the thunder right out from Prologa herself when she starts the same indescribable task of priming the audience for the uproariously delightful screamingly scandalous good time they are about to have when they attend the limited-engagement production of The Menaechmi Twins now appearing in the colosseum— well,

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