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  • Pyramidic Victory

    If rumors of Synetic Theater's Euro-Slavic techno scores, not-so-classical dancing, and penchant for interpreting Shakespeare minus the spoken word have repelled rather than attracted you,...

  • Slay Ride

    Depending on where you were when the first flakes began to fall you may find the timing of Folger Theatre's newest production, playwright Anne Washburn's...

  • Siblings and Rivalries

    When watching a play that includes Abraham Lincoln, the question begs to be asked: Is this a play about Lincoln the politician, or Lincoln the...

  • Divine Miss M

    On a visit to the charmingly scrappy MetroStage in Alexandria right now, you might not find God, but you will find the next best thing....

  • Writers' Block

    The advantage to spending some portion of every day scanning blogs and Twitter feeds is that, sometimes, you stumble upon a question you've never previously...

  • The Director's Wife

    When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...

  • Devil May Care

    Like a cozy vintage clothing store manned by educated young thinkers, The American Century Theater offers a second chance for those less-often noticed American plays...

  • Solo Acts

    ''You are teaching me a history I never knew I had.'' These are the words of the character Doug Wright as written by the playwright...

  • A Different World

    A funny, provocative and emotionally compelling study of a family rock and what lies under it, Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly is engaging and entertaining...

  • Sister Speak

    In 2008 Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size stomped, beat and snarled its way across the Studio Theatre's stage. It was prose poem brought to...

  • Golden Girl

    ''It's a very fun, fun show about my quest to get my own sitcom, about getting a gay family on TV,'' says comedian Judy Gold...

  • Monster Mashed

    Grab your torches and sharpen your pitchforks -- a lumbering beast has been brought to life at the Kennedy Center and the sooner he's driven...

  • Screwballing Around

    Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman's The Solid Gold Cadillac is not a musical, despite that undeniable fact some may well leave Studio Theatre's production...

  • Crack-up Cabaret

    ''I was always kind of fascinated by Martha Graham,'' says Dito van Reigersberg about the larger-than-life dance legend. He calls her ''an almost mythical figure,''...

  • A Light Fantastick

    What would make life easier for all involved would be saying that Arena Stage's new production of The Fantasticks is…fantastic. It's a headline writer's dream...