Stage
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Jewish Conflict
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...
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Joker's Wilde
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...
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Nothin' Dirty Goin' On
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...
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Party Games
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...
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Close-Out Concert
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...
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Family Ties
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...
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Razzle Dazzle
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...
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Oedipal Rush
Flowing with the rhythm and energy of well-tuned invective, Luis Alfaro's Oedipus el Rey brings an urban vibe to Sophocles' ancient and tragic tale of...
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Spoofing Hollywood
This weekend and next, Clay Comer plays a gay porn star at the DC Arts Center. '' is 6-foot-5, a young, incredibly beautiful, incredibly...
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Modern Approach
Luis Alfaro got turned on to the theater when he was 15 as part of community service -- literally. ''I actually got arrested for shoplifting...
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Solid Goldman
Julie Goldman got turned on to standup comedy by one of her teachers at temple. ''Oh my god,'' she recalls thinking, ''I can write my...
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Deconstructions
It's not often that a top Washington tourist destination aims to reach the stone-washed masses and the discerning, over-educated locals, but Ford's Theatre strives undaunted....
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Fractured Fairy Tale
Of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, the illustrious Dr. Johnson wrote: “To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names...
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Lesbian Laughs
In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...
