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  • Unapologetic

    By on June 18, 2008

    If you watched the Tony Awards this past Sunday you saw Lily Tomlin deliver the set-up for a performance from the Broadway musical Xanadu. Reduced...

  • Good Medicine

    By on June 18, 2008

    I will always hold Rene Auberjonois dear for his hysterical two-second impersonation of Lloyd Bridges in the priceless '80s horror flick Eyes of Laura Mars....

  • Perfectly Clear

    By on June 11, 2008

    If you have ever glanced in the window of one of those stately old D.C. pastry shops, the kind where the display of multi-tier cakes...

  • Rib Tickler

    By on June 11, 2008

    Sir Peter Lustforth. Dame Stickle. Molly Tawdry. Lady Vanity Lustforth. And, of course, Dick Dashwood. If you're looking for a clue as to what kind...

  • Latin Infused

    By on June 11, 2008

    Before Dan Guerrero even wrote a one-man show detailing his experiences as a gay Latino in show business, he promptly trademarked the show's title. ''My...

  • International Flair

    By on June 4, 2008

    If you are in the mood for a cozy evening of subtle, intelligent, and thoroughly amusing theater, then Anne Washburn's The Internationalist is just the...

  • Legendary Visitors

    By on June 4, 2008

    There are some who will lay everything about the final production in Signature Theatre's Kander and Ebb Celebration -- good or bad -- at the...

  • School's Out

    By on May 21, 2008

    All one can really say about the Folger production of The School for Scandal is that it should have been good. A British director such...

  • Slain David

    By on May 21, 2008

    The title of Theater J's world premiere musical, David in Shadow and Light, refers to the process by which motion pictures work. As described in...

  • Toga Party

    By on May 14, 2008

    If you fall into that demographic of individuals who love reading The Onion and seeing the works of William Shakespeare (we'll not mention your Public...

  • Musical Bears

    By on April 30, 2008

    While many New Yorkers spent late 2001 trying to make sense of the new post-9/11 world, Freddy Freeman spent the time making his world bigger....

  • Awards Worthy

    By on April 30, 2008

    While some 2,000 members of D.C.'s theater community filled their plates and glasses at the 24th Annual Helen Hayes Awards' post-show Ovations Gala, Monday, April...

  • Buzz Kill

    By on April 9, 2008

    For many, memories of high school include at least one late night spent staring at a blank piece of paper (or computer screen) trying to...

  • Miller Time

    By on April 9, 2008

    Anyone lucky enough to see Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge consecutively (and thanks to Arena's Arthur Miller Festival,...

  • Paradise Found

    By on April 9, 2008

    There's a point where you want to say, ''Enough already!'' For the past several weeks Washington audiences have been running around the metro area seeing...