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  • Superficial Ball

    By on February 20, 2008

    All That I Will Ever Be starts with possibly the most insipid act to be found in one of the most stereotypically superficial cities in...

  • Time Passages

    By on February 6, 2008

    There are those days when you look up from whatever pile of paper has spread like a cup of spilled coffee across your desk only...

  • Acts of Bravery

    By on January 30, 2008

    Over at Woolly Mammoth, sisters are doing it for themselves. The risk-taking downtown theater company has literally packed the house with two one-woman shows. Nilaja...

  • Pure Gold

    By on January 30, 2008

    It's hard to say what Theater J audiences will carry away with them after seeing Judy Gold perform 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (...

  • Funny Business

    By on January 30, 2008

    If ever you've been torn between stand-up or improvisational comedy, comic Jennie McNulty feels your pain. ''It's not a sketch show, not just stand-up --...

  • Purging Playwright

    By on January 30, 2008

    As surreal experiences go, Martin Moran has one that's hard to beat. He's the author of The Tricky Part -- first a Lambda Literary Award-winning...

  • Ship of Dreams

    By on January 23, 2008

    In an age when so many writers of plays (and prose, for that matter) doom their characters to nausea-inducing sincerity or overcooked irreverence in the...

  • Young Bucks

    By on January 23, 2008

    In just a few months, Rent will take its final Broadway bows. The rock remix of Puccini's opera drove some to camp out for days...

  • Sound and Fury

    By on January 9, 2008

    There are those in the theater who will tell you that their ultimate goal is to transport the audience. They will say the greatest success...

  • Fairly Perfect

    By on January 2, 2008

    Fair? Hardly. This Lady is fabulous. From the first note to the last, My Fair Lady, now in the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a...

  • Daredevils

    By on December 19, 2007

    Attending a performance of the Washington Shakespeare Company feels a little like getting admitted to a very hip club. Like the hole-in-the-wall bar that always...

  • Christmas Sneer

    By on December 12, 2007

    It's safe to say that I'm the Scrooge in any holiday gathering. (Hey, it's better than being Tiny Tim.) Christmas spirit -- limited. Holiday cheer...

  • Holiday Witticism

    By on December 5, 2007

    Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...

  • Buried Treasure

    By on December 5, 2007

    Somewhere along the journey the Hispaniola lost its way. And, unfortunately, the storied ship from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is not the only thing...

  • Scrooging Around

    By on November 28, 2007

    If you are searching for the essential holiday theater ticket for the Aunt Bee in your life, look no further than Arena's premiere of Christmas...