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New Traditions
As a self-described Scrooge, I always applied that label to myself without actually knowing the full story of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol: A...
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Rough Ride
Studio Theatre's The Long Christmas Ride Home is, most certainly, long. What begins as a visually-arresting narrative becomes disjointed as the wonderful bond created with...
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Unfinished Restoration
If it were a musical, maybe I would love it. But as it stands, Michael Kahn's premiere of the recently adapted The Beaux' Stratagem is...
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Holiday Trip
Ah, the holidays, a time when all the old theatrical chestnuts come out. There's The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol. And don't forget this other...
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Gift Horse
The experience of seeing the Washington Shakespeare Company's production of Equus really begins when you arrive at the Clark Street Playhouse. While technically in Crystal...
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Halfway There
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perennial favorite, containing everything needed for a fun night of theater: a broad range of characters, an...
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Criminal Intent
In 1924, Nathan ''Babe'' Leopold Jr. and Richard ''Dickie'' Loeb were sentenced to life plus 99 years for the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. The...
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Shining Blue
Adapting a Toni Morrison novel to any other medium is at the very least a Herculean task. Most notably, Oprah Winfrey tried turning the author's...
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The Naked Now
''I am good at being naked.'' In the nonstop cascade of language that makes up Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, this single line forms...
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Anger Management
Given the explosion of courtroom dramas on television over the past decade, it might seem unnecessary to go to the Kennedy Center to watch another...
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Oh, Henry
It's good, but it's not great. We're not talking, of course, about the timeless music from Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe or the original George...
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Force of Nature
Arena Stage's new production of Cabaret is a force of nature -- a thunderstorm that starts as the rumble of gin-fueled laughter and ends with...
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Destiny's Child
From the first glimpse of the diminutive Owen Meany, a boy with oversized ears and screaming blond hair, we know he's more than a little...
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Fish Tale
The end of childhood is a rite of passage to be delayed and then mourned. It's the moment when we no longer view the world...
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Dear Mr. President
In early 2004, President Bush was steadfastly employing his bully pulpit to promote a constitutional amendment prohibiting the possibility of same-sex couples from marrying. It...
