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  • 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...

  • Tricky Dicks

    By on August 13, 2003

    Puppetry of the Penis marks the latest evolution in appendage exploitation -- and the male member will never be the same. The show is simple,...

  • Queen of Arts

    By on August 13, 2003

    Once upon a time (roughly two or three times a season), a very peculiar thing here in the real-world ''Wonderland '' happens: a theatre company...

  • Urban Legends

    By on July 30, 2003

    In the mid-eighties, photographer Jim Goldberg began work on what would eventually become Raised by Wolves, an insightful photo exposé capturing the lives of homeless...

  • Libations and Libidos

    By on July 23, 2003

    At first glance, D.H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams may not seem like two probable writers to present in rep: one serves up cold drinks, the...

  • High Five

    By on July 16, 2003

    Last February, Ann Farmer of Women's Enews reported that, ''Of approximately 2,000 Off-Broadway and regional theater productions scheduled for the 2001-02 season, 16 percent are...

  • Summer Froth

    By on July 9, 2003

    In the soupy heat that defines Washington summer, one can cool off to the vanilla music of David Shire and chocolate lyrics of Richard Maltby,...

  • Sell-A-Thon

    By on July 9, 2003

    ''Over the season, we acquire a tremendous amount of costumes and hundreds of props, '' says Joy Zinoman, Artistic Director of the Studio Theatre. ''And...

  • Triple Bard

    By on July 2, 2003

    Shenandoah Shakespeare puts the art back in theatre with a rep of three equally-mesmerizing productions      Nestled in the heart of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley lies...

  • Endurance Test

    By on June 25, 2003

    We call them ''suits. '' You know, the businessmen with the cellular telephones attached permanently to their inner ear, briefcase in hand, rattling off policy...

  • Ebb's Tide

    By on June 18, 2003

    ''I thought they made spectacle of themselves, frankly. I thought it was dumb. '' Fred Ebb -- one half of the famed Broadway musical team...

  • Singular Senstion

    By on June 4, 2003

    Tunesmith: Smith as Kleban Chances are you've never heard of Ed Kleban. But after seeing A Class Act, chances are extraordinarily good that you'll never...

  • Cho Time

    By on May 28, 2003

    She's the one that we want: Cho. Margaret Cho can't be stopped. At 34 years old, she's spent half a life hopping from stage to...