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Jolly Holiday
For every Lion King, there is a Little Mermaid. For every Beauty and the Beast, there is a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. There is perhaps...
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Lip Service
Special Agent Galactica is every woman – figuratively. The lip-syncing character whose attire usually entails a pink wig, short dress, heels and subtle makeup, ''channels''...
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Wise Guy
''I'm still working this out.'' If you walk away from Theater J's production of David Ives's play New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza...
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Life's a Cabaret
In a few weeks, Colleen McHugh will perform ''Friend of Dorothy: The Songs of Judy Garland'' at Signature Theatre. ''I mean, that's so stereotypical, but...
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Glamourpusses
If, since hearing about Studio Theatre's decision to mount a new production of Legends! starring James Lecesne and John Epperson (aka Lypsinka) in the leading...
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Diva Duel
''I think the fact that this ridiculous play -- in the best sense of the word -- is being done in this what I would...
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Suffragette City
For those who tend to think of late Victorian/early Edwardian feminism in terms of the insuppressibly cheerful suffragette mother in Mary Poppins, George Bernard Shaw's...
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Tony Fever
In a recent episode of Glee, Kristin Chenoweth cued up a little Burt Bacharach in an effort to once again woo Matthew Morrison's character. She's...
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Lady Like
Enrique Divine, who just celebrated a birthday last week, laughs off questions about his age. ''You never ask that to a woman!'' The character of...
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Slumber Dome
So maybe you know about the dome. Or, maybe you don't know about the dome. Maybe, when looking at advertisements and posters for Arena Stage's...
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Storytellers
In the opening moments of Ricky Ian Gordon's musical Sycamore Trees, now premiering as part of Signature Theatre's ''American Musical Voices Project,'' lead character Andrew's...
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Women in Love
A modern sad-funny tale of a love that fails to launch, Rajiv Joseph’s play Gruesome Playground Injuries ranks as a small but, in its way,...
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Naked Talent
There are two ways that this can go. This review could spend a lot of time framing Ganymede Arts' new production of the musical review...
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Feast and Famine
There is something about Hadar Galron's Mikveh that seems familiar. This would not seem so strange were it not for the fact that Theater J's...
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Explosive Finale
One of the more traditional ways of celebrating an event of particular significance is with a champagne toast -- a fleet of slender flute glasses...
