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  • History's Witness

    By on February 11, 2004

    Looking Over the President's Shoulder, a one-man show about the first African-American chief butler at the White House, brims with ironies. From 1931 to 1953,...

  • Winter's Wonders

    By on February 4, 2004

    Baby, it's cold outside. And inside. Especially in Pine City, Minnesota, the fictional town where playwright Craig Wright loves to frame his eccentric, involved stories...

  • Outing the Ex

    By on January 28, 2004

    ''It would be really easy for me to blast the ex-gay ministry hard, '' says Peterson Toscano of his one-man show Doin' Time in the...

  • Golden Age

    By on January 28, 2004

    Why did Shakespeare name his play Henry IV, Part 1 after the King when the entire play revolves around the actions, deeds, and ultimately the...

  • Little Boy Lost

    By on January 21, 2004

    Poor Malcolm. When we first meet the sweet, fresh-faced fifteen-year-old, he is quietly waiting for his father to return. From where, no one knows. All...

  • Canon Fodder

    By on January 14, 2004

    The Broadway musical has sometimes been called the only uniquely American contribution to world theatre. Much of the credit for this development belongs to the...

  • Four Play

    By on January 14, 2004

    Christopher Shinn knows how to paint a story. While some playwrights love to wax poetic and lose their characters in long-winded speeches drenched in flowery...

  • Real World

    By on December 17, 2003

    The less said by the characters in The York Realist, a sixties-set drama about an ultimately unrequited love between two young men, the better for...

  • Glad Tidings

    By on December 10, 2003

    God bless David H. Bell. His 1987 adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has become an annual tradition at Ford's Theatre, and with good...

  • Ménage à Trois

    By on December 3, 2003

    Once upon a time, in a land very, very near, Queen Molly Smith decided to dip her royal toes into the immense pool of American...

  • Utterly Shawful

    By on November 19, 2003

    You know that promising moment when you think you've solved a Rubik's Cube, that annoyingly enigmatic toy straight out of the pocket-protector weird science of...

  • Roman Holiday

    By on November 12, 2003

    It is the best of Sondheim, it is the worst of Sondheim. It is the first Sondheim, it is the quite possibly the last Sondheim....

  • Sweet Dream

    By on November 12, 2003

    If you've silently longed for an ideal production of Shakespeare's classic A Midsummer Night's Dream, wait no more. The Shakespeare Theatre and director Mark Lamos...

  • Laugh-A-Minute

    By on November 12, 2003

    ''I do a lot of stuff about being a gay mom and my relationship and my kids, '' says comedian Judy Gold. ''But, of course,...

  • Star Power

    By on November 5, 2003

    Anyone who is readily familiar with the controversial astronomer Galileo Galilei and his denounced teachings will no doubt find interest in David Hare's compelling translation...