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Eastern Edge: 'Brother Russia'
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...
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American Overture: '1776'
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...
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Hearts Afire
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...
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Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
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...
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The Vanishing
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,...
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Generating Sparks
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...
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Amsterdamned
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...
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Rocky Concert
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...
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Beyond Bare
When Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010, Carl Menninger might have been more disturbed than most. As a gay assistant professor at...
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Bad Company
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...
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Cree-ative Calling
This Friday, Feb. 24, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors after hours for a special treat ''recommended for mature audiences.''...
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Review: Blood Wedding
Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...
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Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers
In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...
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Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''
{Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...
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Fundamentally Flawed
For all the suffering that's been heaped upon gays onstage over the years -- from the alcoholic angst of The Boys in the Band to...
