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  • Blowing Smoke

    By on October 20, 2004

    Watching Nilo Cruz's illustrious Anna in the Tropics as a born and bred native of the Tampa Bay area is brutal. But to anyone who...

  • Smooth Moves

    By on October 13, 2004

    Drinking a delicious, slushy smoothie is a delightful thing. Marketing it to the masses is a whole other bowl of fruit. And that's just what...

  • Perfect Match

    By on October 13, 2004

    Andrea Martin has never seen Hello, Dolly! ''I guess I'm the only person in the world who has never seen that musical,'' says the actress...

  • Star Wars

    By on October 6, 2004

    ''I am her father, '' booms the familiar sub-bass voice that immediately conjures up sci-fi scenes teeming with Jedi fighters. ''Ethel's her mummy, and I'm...

  • Hello, Gorgeous!

    By on October 6, 2004

    Back when Steven Brinberg was in high school, his father confronted him with something he'd found in the boy's bedroom. ''This tape of Barbra Streisand...

  • Teacher's Pet

    By on September 29, 2004

    Jefferson Mays is going to die. The innocent seventeen year-old has been convicted of murder in 1948 rural Louisiana and now he must pay the...

  • Fantasyland

    By on September 22, 2004

    When Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov sends a letter, he doesn't have to walk it to the nearest mailbox down the street, or even search for a...

  • Wonder Women

    By on September 22, 2004

    David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize-nominated M. Butterfly is, by all reasonable measures, a perfect play. The playwright brilliantly, poetically entwines his story of wants versus...

  • The Big Chill

    By on September 8, 2004

    There are but two exciting moments in Michael Kahn's latest production of Macbeth, a chilly, anemic season opener boasting glittery star power from Kelly McGillis...

  • Parent Trap

    By on September 1, 2004

    When Woolly Mammoth issues the caveat ''For Mature Audiences, '' they're not kidding. Ian Cohen's shockingly outlandish comedy Lenny & Lou is about as ''adult...

  • Ladies Night

    By on August 25, 2004

    In case you didn't know, there's a great little feminist theater group here in our nation's capital that produces great little works of theater in...

  • Pure Bliss

    By on August 11, 2004

    They just don't make good instinct like they used to. Most contemporary (read: young) actors trained in the modern theater demonstrate an annoyingly affected air...

  • Perfect Glass

    By on July 28, 2004

    With its delicate yet powerful staging of Tennessee Williams's sentimental classic, The Glass Menagerie, the Kennedy Center proves that, indeed, the third time's a charm....

  • Time Warp

    By on July 7, 2004

    Whatever happened to Fay Wray? The legendary Queen of Scream gains life eternal through tribute from a very different queen of the night in another...

  • Tour de Forceful

    By on June 30, 2004

    Nathan Lane he is not. But Lewis J. Stadlen does manage a fair impersonation of the loveable smart-ass as down-on-his luck theatre mogul Max Bialystock...