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Young Bucks
There is nothing rotten – though there are some slightly malodorous bits – in Folger Theatre's state of Denmark. Folger's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet...
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Drive Time
In the moments before an accident, some people relate the experience of having their entire life flash before their eyes. But that has always seemed...
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Tapped Out
Always remove one item before leaving the house. This was the advice of the godmother of the little black dress Coco Chanel. Do the hair....
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Jewish Ham
Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler on the Roof? At first, you may hope he's playing the matriarch Golde in drag. Or better, a drag Yente, the...
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Musical Roots
''You've got to let the story in, let the silliness wash over you until you giggle,'' says Coy Middlebrook, director of Little Shop of Horrors....
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[show] Business
If you don't have anything nice to say, the saying goes, come sit by me. is one of those fun but ill-mannered...
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Lie Hard
After Henry V and Richard II, dishes as rich as pheasant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers the clever 17th century confection, Corneille's The Liar. Under...
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Greek Idol
It is to Terrence McNally's great advantage that three of his plays are being staged simultaneously at the Kennedy Center since anyone who sees only...
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Spacing Out
Jared Davis is doing his part to establish a ''holiday for space.'' Now in its third year, his party Countdown to Yuri's Night celebrates the...
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High Notes
It seems that, for as long as there have been people, there have been individuals trying to map dividing lines. To determine the boundaries between...
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War Room
In keeping with its mission to stage vintage treasures, The American Century Theater brings us Donald Bevan's and Edmund Trzcinski's Stalag 17 in its original...
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Fun with Flora
What does one say about a musical whose leads include a man-eating plant? A musical that causes most people to think not of Broadway (or...
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Prime Real Estate
In the words of Led Zeppelin, ''Upon us all, a little rain must fall.'' And so it does, briefly, at the beginning and end of...
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Light Fantastic
There is nothing small about the musical The Light in the Piazza. The songbook is page after page of grand gestures, ornate flourishes and the...
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Hitchcocked
''I'll never be able to watch a Hitchcock movie again without laughing,'' said one viewer of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in a posting to...
