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Law and Stagecraft
Ken Ludwig considers practicing law the equivalent of waiting tables. ''Most actors,'' he says, ''would not want to be identified as, 'Oh, wait a second,...
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Fiddling with History
What would Julie do? Danny Scheie asks himself that periodically, referring to Julie Andrews. ''She's a good barometer. She always behaves really, really well.'' So...
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A Giddy Thing
Wince you might at the idea of Much Ado About Nothing rendered as a 1930s screwball comedy set in Cuba, but save the potential wrinkles....
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Breaking Out
The first thing you notice about Lauren Weedman is her face. It's one of those that instantly conveys personality -- you look, spot the quirks,...
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Bonfire Night
He must be tickled: Just as Bill Cain's latest play, Equivocation, opens here in Washington, another Mr. Cain, this one a presidential hopeful, is ''attempting...
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Jersey Score
Am I in the right theater? That's what you might wonder as Jersey Boys opens when an African-American performer launches into a hip-hop number. In...
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Broadway Carols
''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...
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Bucking Tradition
Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
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Bloody Business
Can you handle the tooth? Seriously -- as in an Asian restaurant worker's rotted black tooth that's yanked out in the kitchen and finds its...
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Acting Out
'There were no men not wearing dresses in show business,'' says Jason Stuart, referring to Hollywood 20 years ago when he first contemplated coming...
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Going Green
We all know that the Moor of Venice is supposed to be a hothead, but is he supposed to be this flat-out hot, too? In...
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Blasphemy in Idaho
Whatever the purveyors of the nation's entertainment may believe, or not, there is something about the recent tide of religious fundamentalism that has them running...
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War and Witchcraft
As Arms and The Man opens, Amy Quiggins flutters across the stage playing Raina Petkoff as if she were Barbie come to life. She's giddy...
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The People Sing
''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...
