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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Crowning Achivement

    There are a litany of reasons to see both Richard II and Henry V, currently in rep at the Shakespeare Theatre. Among them, the joy...

  • Nirvana

    Here are the top five reasons to make your way to the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan to check out Landless Theatre Co.'s production...

  • Latino Flair

    There is an undeniable excitement that comes from talking to playwright Nilo Cruz. It's not a kind of idol worship. Not the realization that one...

  • Bloodshed, Bigotry and Beauty

    Signature Theatre's Sweeney Todd is a nightmare drawn by Edward Gorey and colored by a shipwrecked orchestra. A lonely fairy tale featuring a peculiar assortment...

  • Money Pit

    Although there will, without doubt, be many advantages to the Washington Shakespeare Company's move next season to the high-profile theatrical spaces of Rosslyn's Art Space...