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  • Untamed: Review of 'Taming of the Shrew'

    By on April 12, 2012

    Strip the art from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and you are left, more or less, with a rather bitter, violence-prone woman who, married against...

  • Occupational Art

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''It's a real mix, and a real attempt to bring our local artists together,'' says Quique Aviles. The actor and performer has essentially created a...

  • Paying Homage

    By on April 12, 2012

    Every night just before performing his one-man show, Jorge ''Jay'' Alvarez has a moment of panic. ''Oh my God, do I have this in me...

  • Adventure Theatre celebrates 60 years of cute-themed theater

    By on April 12, 2012

    Last year, the Adventure Theatre won its first-ever Helen Hayes Award for the show If You Give a Pig a Pancake. This summer, the children's...

  • A Woman Alone: 'Strange Interlude'

    By on April 4, 2012

    In the pantheon of social types, there have always been the over-qualified and under-employed. These are the alphas that, never quite launching, end up using...

  • Spiderspoof

    By on April 4, 2012

    ''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company...

  • Scary Carrie? Barely

    By on March 25, 2012

    Once you see it, you can't un-see it. That's the parting message of Carrie. Unfortunately, there isn't much to see or un-see at the Lucille...

  • Eastern Edge: 'Brother Russia'

    By on March 23, 2012

    While 1776 celebrates the Declaration of Independence at Ford's Theatre, revolution is brewing at Signature Theatre, too, in the world premiere of the musical Brother...

  • American Overture: '1776'

    By on March 23, 2012

    Why should the National Archives have all the fun? For the next couple of months, Ford's Theatre has cornered the market on celebrating the Declaration...

  • Hearts Afire

    By on March 21, 2012

    We can all be forgiven a bit of nostalgia for that kinder, gentler time when ''American values'' and all they connote, were more an organic...

  • Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last August, Stephen Sondheim took to the New York Times to attack Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Audra McDonald for being arrogant and disrespectful in...

  • The Vanishing

    By on March 14, 2012

    There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately,...

  • Generating Sparks

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last weekend, Hal Sparks helped Chely Wright launch an LGBT center in Kansas City, Mo. Of course, Fred Phelps and his nearby Westboro Baptist Church...

  • Amsterdamned

    By on March 8, 2012

    Who over 30 hasn't thought at some point that know-it-all twentysomethings -- lounging in their skinny jeans, tweeting about their favorite CW shows -- will...

  • Rocky Concert

    By on March 8, 2012

    Craig Cipollini, and Anthony Preston as Rocky, photographed by Todd Franson, Friday, Feb. 24 If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the...