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Gay Altar
''He's described in the script as having a deep and abiding love for Cher and all things show tunes.'' Patrick M. Doneghy is talking about...
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Retro Run
With so many playwrights cramming a circus's worth of plot and issues into their pages, it can seem they are writing for an audience with...
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Spanish, Class
GALA Hispanic Theatre is launching its 35th anniversary season with a production that will not only make you want to be certain the company has...
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Well Done
If ever a jukebox hit was made for a Shakespearian play, it is Diana Ross' ''I'm gonna make you love me,'' as applied to All's...
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Moon Shine
Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...
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Set to Stun
Christopher Henley photographed by Julian Vankim on Friday, Sept. 10 Going to a Washington Shakespeare Company performance at the Clark Street Playhouse was always something...
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Imposter, Muse and a False Note
When Patricia Highsmith created Tom Ripley, she created an evil that was terrifying because it was so deliciously attractive. Smart. Disturbingly sexual. Enticingly dangerous. Writer...
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High Notes
Falsettos is about a gay man – a father – who divorces his wife but vows to keep the family together. In 1992, during the...
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Anti-Climax
Over-hyped, overlong and ultimately under-sexed, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play leaves much to be desired. Trying for the ever bigger...
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Revolutions
We all have that negative thing that lurks in the back of our head with surprising ferocity. Maybe it was a moment of humiliation so...
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True Love
''I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone,'' says comedian Loni Love. Love was raised with her brother by...
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Game Boys
When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...
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Funny Noises
If you're familiar with Washington's Church Street Theater, tucked away as it is on an unassuming, tree-lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood...
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Puppet Masters
Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...
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Sing Out Loud
Despite the time that's passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...
