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Baked Alaska
Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist? “That’s to be interpreted by the ,” says Gross National Product’s John Simmons, referring to his theater company’s latest comedy...
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Lost Horizon
Being credited as a seminal contemporary American play doesn’t make Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon easy to watch. In fact, the best approach to this...
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Sweet Secrets
With Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returns Studio Theatre audiences to San Pere, La., a housing project that sits somewhere...
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Mad About You
While it's not necessarily the answer you expect, Florence Lacey makes a little bit of madness sound kind of relaxing. At least, that is, when...
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The Best Stage of 2010
From H Street to Columbia Heights to that new vast temple to the drama gods on the waterfront, D.C.'s theater scene is bright and varied...
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Funny Ladies
''You don't hear as many legitimate conversations about foreign policy in Chicago as you do ,'' says Brooke Breit of Chicago's Second City. You...
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Satirical Song
Next June, Doug Peck will get married in his hometown of Chicago. ”It’s not legal yet but we’re doing it anyway,” he says. The...
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Some Enchanted Evenings
Okay. So, Nellie Forbush is no Cee Lo Green. While both deliver tunes that are incredibly infectious and sure to stay with you for a...
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Sicks Appeal
''As the culture is changing,'' says Irwin Keller of the drag a cappella group the Kinsey Sicks, ''we become sort of the daring-but-doable entertainment in...
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Good Cheer
Despite the valiant attempts being made in some corners, the bright bauble of reality television has eclipsed what was once television's most reliable version of...
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Time Warp
When writing his 1995 play Mojo, playwright Jez Butterworth could hardly have suspected that fewer than five years later a certain dentally challenged swinging super...
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Fruitcake Carols
''Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,'' Donna Migliaccio sings in the opening number of A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, she does. By the...
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Bold Confession
The surest way for any theater critic to cover his ass is to say that a certain play or musical ''will mean different things to...
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The Elf Word
''I'm not the happy elf,'' says Michael Rupert. ''I'm the grouchy elf.'' He's talking about his role in Adventure Theatre's The Happy Elf. ''I play...
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Opposites Attract
On the surface, it might seem Signature Theatre's world premiere comedy Walter Cronkite is Dead and Studio Theatre's production of Tracy Lett's Superior Donuts have...
