Stage
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Homeless
''We're in a bit of flux trying to figure out how best to accomplish everything that we'd planned,'' says WSC Avant Bard's Christopher Henley. That...
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War Torn
War is a drug on which human society appears to be hopelessly addicted. That, at least, is the sad essence of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson...
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Kate Wingfield's Best and Worst Stage of 2012
{Strange Interlude: Francesca Faridany (Photo by Scott Suchman)} A good night at the theater is kind of like plane travel for brains. A really great...
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Doug Rule's Best and Worst Stage of 2012
{Brel: Natascia Diaz, Sam Ludwig, Bobby Smith, Bayla Whitten (Photo by Christopher Banks)} Theater is generally intended to be a mentally transporting experience, but of...
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Sharing Stories
Amy Saidman got turned off of becoming a standup comic. ''Other comedians are cold and aloof and unfriendly,'' Saidman says, ''telling homophobic jokes to 20...
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Musical Trips
No doubt, you've heard the hype. Last month The Washington Post reported that Signature Theatre decided to stage Dreamgirls, purely and simply, as a showcase...
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Back to the Bard
''Elizabethan London and contemporary Washington, D.C., probably have more in common than any two other cities,'' says Ethan McSweeny. It's because of that link that...
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Fairy Dust
Enchantingly atmospheric and often funny, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rich with love's intangibles: wistfulness, a touch of cynicism, and its...
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Awkward 'Aliens'
A theatergoer just might get lost daydreaming during The Aliens, plotting an escape out of the Studio Theatre's intimate, second-floor Milton Theatre. That is, of...
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My Fair Musical
Funny, joyful and generally festive, Arena Stage's My Fair Lady is a pleaser. Grey heads will bob nostalgically, children will delight, and lovers of the...
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North Pole Longing
{GMCW: Born This Way (Photo by Ward Morrison)} ''Mrs. Claus is going to be very classy, with maybe just a hint of Karen Walker,'' says...
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Folksy Feeling
If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should...
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Lingering Accents
''I think it's a universal story that's quite specific to this moment in time in America,'' says Arena Stage's artistic director Molly Smith, who directed...
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Cox Appeal
For the record, Deborah Cox does not think she's a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body. ''I've never looked at myself like that,''...
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Bombs Away
All My Sons opens with a terrible thunderstorm – made more ominous by incorporating the sounds of fighter jets and bombs bursting in air. It's...
