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  • Frustrating and Timid

    By on December 11, 2002

    Scena Theatre introduces Washington audiences to the controversial 1996 British play Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill, and the company comes frustratingly close to an...

  • Grounded Lyricism

    By on December 11, 2002

    Edward Sanchez's new play Icarus strives to be a lyrical, surreal meditation on dreams and beauty, fueled by the tale of a physically disabled young...

  • Garden Grub

    By on December 4, 2002

    Olney Theatre Center reminds us of what a lovely and sublime Broadway musical The Secret Garden is. If only the company's production could adequately match...

  • Willy-nilly

    By on December 4, 2002

    In the flesh: NBS! cast (Photo by Christopher O. Banks ) There's nothing particularly novel about nudity these days, right? You get a hunkering for...

  • Epic Experience

    By on December 4, 2002

    I love Les Misérables. Even after seeing two touring productions in the '90s and the Broadway production in 2000, the prospect of seeing Boublil and...

  • Toilet Humor

    By on December 4, 2002

    Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: LaForce, Murray and Painter (Photo by Ian Armstrong ) There's a lot to be said for taking a taboo subject...

  • Blah Humbug

    By on November 20, 2002

    Signature Theatre playwright Norman Allen has taken Dickens's A Christmas Carol, updated it to 1911 New York City, illustrated it with ragtime-era songs, and re-christened...

  • Home Run

    By on November 20, 2002

    The Studio Theatre Secondstage has emerged for its new season in outstanding form with Bat Boy The Musical, the ultra-quirky off-Broadway hit inspired by the...

  • Bottom Less

    By on November 20, 2002

    Rainey Days: Fabrique (Photo by Scott Suchman) By design, playwright August Wilson's work is never going to move at anything even resembling breakneck speed. His...

  • Perfect Shape

    By on November 13, 2002

    Love hurts: Twyford and Barrow (Photo by Carol Pratt)      I think I've now seen the best stage production of 2002.      Of course, it'll...

  • Old Hat

    By on November 6, 2002

    Office politics: Church and Clarke (Photo by Kathleen Akerley) Politics and religion are riddled with hypocrisy, and moral conservatives who rail against sexual content in...

  • Very Bad Man

    By on October 30, 2002

    Dream on: Mitchell as Cervantes/Quixote (Photo by Joan Marcus)      It's just wrong.      There's no better way to sum up the revival of Man...

  • Power Pop

    By on October 30, 2002

         The buzz from New York on the cabaret act Kiki & Herb over the last couple of years has been so scintillating, so delicious,...

  • French Connection

    By on October 9, 2002

    High Society: Cofield, Williamson, Redmond and Emerson (Photo by Scott Suchman)      Control and confidence are the hallmarks of Arena Stage's new production of The...

  • Northern Exposure

    By on October 2, 2002

    Fighting back: Robinette, Lodge and Forrest (Photo by Stan Barouh)      It's easy to see why Round House Theatre has returned to the George F....