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21. Film

    Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    By Melissa Anderson

    Published: April 29, 2009

    Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, another backward...

22. Stage

    Actors pull off the best trick of all in The Floating Light Bulb: giving vibrancy to a so-so script

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 29, 2009

    Woody Allen's 1981 play, The Floating Light Bulb, begins and ends with a magic trick. "The Floating Light Bulb" was the signature piece of great early-20th-century illusionist...

23. Stagecap

    Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol

    By Chris Jensen

    Published: April 29, 2009

    As with just about any collection of short theater pieces, Thrillpeddlers' new sex-and-violence extravaganza is very much hit-and-miss — but at least this evening of...

24. Stagecap

    Faux Real

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: April 29, 2009

    If you needed more signs that San Francisco bends gender rules other places don't even know exist yet, one of the hardest-working drag queens currently working the stage at...

25. Encore

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    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton and Chris Jensen

    Published: April 29, 2009

    American Hwangap. Magic Theatre's artistic director, Loretta Greco, is very keen to compare American Hwangap and its Korean-American playwright, Lloyd Suh, to Sam Shepard and...