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  • Stage Manager

    By on April 28, 2011

    Michael Bobbitt was surprised when he learned the No Rules Theatre Company wanted to honor him with its Distinguished Artist In Their Youth award --...

  • Girl's Night In

    By on April 20, 2011

    Shining like a small but powerful beacon from its quiet corner in Arlington, The American Century Theater continues its extraordinary mission to seek out and...

  • Express Yourself

    By on April 14, 2011

    The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...

  • For Art's Sake

    By on April 14, 2011

    Just as a piece of modern art can at first seem deceptively simple, so the premise of Yasmina Reza's Art, at first blush, appears remarkably...

  • Taking Liberty

    By on April 6, 2011

    It's a small world, after all. No, there are no animated dolls serenading you about global peace and world unity in a trip around Ford's...

  • Lights Up

    By on March 31, 2011

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • Send in the Clowns

    By on March 31, 2011

    For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...

  • Bountiful Journey

    By on March 23, 2011

    There's a key reason to see The Trip to Bountiful currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda and it's not what you might think. Or...

  • Jewish Conflict

    By on March 16, 2011

    You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...

  • Joker's Wilde

    By on March 16, 2011

    For those familiar with Bill Bryson's latest doorstop, At Home, a humorous and highly informative historical account of Anglo-American domestic life, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's...

  • Nothin' Dirty Goin' On

    By on March 16, 2011

    The message popped up on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's (GMCW) Facebook page early on Thursday morning, just about a week before the...

  • Party Games

    By on March 9, 2011

    There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...

  • Close-Out Concert

    By on March 9, 2011

    Jeffrey Johnson recalls Noi Chudnoff shopping at thrift stores for bras and panties -- for him to wear. ''It's so funny,'' he laughs. ''What other...

  • Family Ties

    By on February 23, 2011

    The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company's Juno and the Paycock, Sean...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    By on February 16, 2011

    In On The Razzle, an incompetent tailor creates a too-tight parade uniform for the show's shopkeeper Zangler. ''I suppose it will have to do, at...