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The Past in Two Parts
I searched in vain to find a saving grace in Olney Theatre's new production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Initially, I...
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Wilde at Heart
A late-Victorian romp filled with Oscar Wilde's relentless wit and merciless jabs at high society, the Shakespeare Theater Company's The Importance of Being Earnest may...
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Jazzed
Freda Payne has absolutely no trouble channeling the big voice of Ella Fitzgerald, and it's actually quite remarkable. Payne, who had a pop hit in...
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Sounds of Silence
He's not gay, but members of the LGBT community will identify straightaway with the character Billy in Studio Theatre's arresting production of Nina Raine's Tribes....
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Coming Up Roses
Last year it was Dreamgirls. The year before, Hairspray. And now Signature Theatre has staged another holiday season treat, what you might call the mother...
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Shiny Apple
As one of the country's top theater towns, Washington is awash with superb actors. But what makes many of them extraordinary is their seeming dedication...
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Fabulous Forums
''For us there can be no happiness,'' Hero says, direly, to the woman he loves, Philia, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...
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Sketchy Season
''D.C.'s so wound-up and uptight,'' Mark Chalfant says. ''Improv classes are really doing a world of good for the people who find us.'' And people...
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Hear Them Roar
''And that's the time I bought the gun.'' Rita Lyons drops that hysterical bombshell in the midst of recounting a sordid family story in Nicky...
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Conditional Success
The creators of the new musical If/Then have given D.C. theatergoers many reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. The most obvious three: a grand return...
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Southern Man
In an extraordinary combination, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate is funny, unflinchingly honest, and awful in the best possible way. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Tracy Lett's...
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Magic To Do
Of all the adjectives you could use to describe Beaches, the maudlin movie from 1988 starring Bette Midler as C.C. Bloom, it's doubtful ''inspiring'' would...
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Edie's Follies
Relatively few people ever got the chance to see Edie Beale perform cabaret. ''She was getting calls from all over the world, and she just...
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Acceptance Speech
''Have we really come very far in terms of acceptance?'' Actor Michael Stebbins says that's a question provoked by the play I Am My Own...
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It's a Thin Line
It is hard to see Yael Farber's play Mies Julie without reflecting on J.M. Coetzee's extraordinary novel Disgrace. Both set in post-apartheid South Africa, each...
