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  • 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...

  • Crazy Kilt

    By on October 29, 2003

    You have to give credit to playwright Jonathan Wilson for creating one of the most comically inventive Go-Go dancing scenes written for an exotic entertainer....

  • Power Packed

    By on October 22, 2003

    Sixteen years ago, when Michel Marc Bouchard's Lilies or the Revival of the Romantic Drama premiered in Montreal it was considered explosive. Today, against the...

  • American Classics

    By on October 15, 2003

    Ford's Theatre is inarguably one of the country's most revered spaces to present live theatre, its walls steeped in American history and political drama. And...

  • Happiness

    By on October 8, 2003

    I have only one complaint about You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as staged by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., and here it...

  • Powerless Flower

    By on September 24, 2003

    You've got to at least admire Ken Ludwig for doggedly attempting to revitalize the classic farce genre. His early efforts, Lend Me A Tenor and...

  • Missing the Boat

    By on September 24, 2003

    Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've come to expect too much from a Tom Stoppard play by way of cerebral titillation and a love affair...

  • Three's Company

    By on September 17, 2003

    From the moment that a bouncing young man knocks on the front door of a rural Canadian farmhouse and steps into the lives of two...

  • Brothers, Sisters and Worms

    By on September 10, 2003

    It's safe to assume that Suzan-Lori Parks is obsessed with Abraham Lincoln. Not only did she examine his assassination in various colors in 1993's The...

  • Screwballed

    By on September 3, 2003

    James Barbour starred on Broadway opposite Toni Braxton in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. But let's not hold that against him. This man of great...

  • Words Worth

    By on September 3, 2003

    Plays, novels and other works of art about the comic tendency of language to be misunderstood, misused and misdirected are, as they say, a dime...

  • One More Dance

    By on August 20, 2003

    ''I love all things Russian -- I'm a Russophile, '' grins playwright Norman Allen. ''I read War and Peace every year. I also love ballet...