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A Musical Mystery
Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...
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Giving Birth
It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...
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French Twist
Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...
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Tea Time
Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...
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Shows of Shows
There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...
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Musical Realities
Among tragically themed musicals, Parade marches to the beat of a particularly bleak (and real) drummer: Leo Frank, a Northern Jewish factory manager doomed to...
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Lingering Kiss
Actress Rachel Zampelli decided it was now or never to push for a new production of Stop Kiss. ''I was looking into the mirror, wondering...
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Repertory Wonders
There may be important things missing in two mystery-laden musicals onstage now at Signature Theatre: a sleuth's youthful innocence, a kidnapped girl, a demonic horseman's...
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Habit Forming
To make great art, you simply have to be in the habit of making art, period. The trick is, art needs an audience along the...
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Kiss and Tell
Do you remember your first kiss with a lover? The moment you let your guard down and melt into another person can be a mind-altering,...
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Overly Apparent
Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of The Liar two...
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Funny Business
Gay comedy in D.C. has a new and improved home. ''We're hoping that it catches on like the shows we used to do in the...
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Weaving's World
Hugo Weaving has portrayed a robot bent on world destruction, a neurotic drag queen, an evil computer program and a benevolent elf. Which was his...
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Gays and Dolls
''It's one of the great gay musicals of all time,'' Gordon Greenberg asserts of Guys and Dolls. No, there's nothing gay per se about Frank...
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Soviet Disunion
Love hurts. Work is pointless. Authority is a joke. Life in Uncle Vanya may not be grand, but Chekhov certainly is -- particularly in the...
