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  • Home Run

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

         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

    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

    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....

  • Porn Again

    Anti-climax: Jim Slade      When a play has the title Making Porn, and top billing goes to gay porn stars Chris Steele and Jim Slade,...

  • Three Cheers

    There's a gem of a new musical to be found at Alexandria's MetroStage right now -- Three Sistahs, featuring the positively crackerjack trio of Crysta...

  • Pleasant Parade

    Romantic virgin: Cohn (Photo by Scott Suchman)      Cabaret meets Pacific Overtures in Privates on Parade, the 25th anniversary season opener for The Studio Theatre....

  • Anemic Anthems

    Is the story of Washington, D.C. -- the quirks, flaws and distinctions that transcend the standard image projected day in and day out by the...

  • Fantastic Farce

    Nuclear Family: Reese, Harris, Frith and McGinn (Photo by Carol Pratt )      Even if you've seen productions of What the Butler Saw, the final...

  • Sacred Ground

    Two on the Twelfth: Sutton and Twyford (Photo by Stan Barouh ) Has enough time passed since the horror of September 11 that the terrorists'...

  • Good Eats

    Lord I was born a wrestling man: Tweel and Fry. (Photo by Ian Armstrong)      Generally speaking, processed meat is not a subject for close...