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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,''...
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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...
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All in the Family
There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...
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Lights! Camera! Fraction!
Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...
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Victorian Plunge
When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...
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Show Time
At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...
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Brute Force
The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men, that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new...
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Classic Fare
Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...
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Perpetual Motion
It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...
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Masterpieces
Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...
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Comedy and Tragedy
The biggest problem with the farce is that it has become so much part of the high school theatrical trunk. It's a potent mix for...
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Creative Transfusion
With their original blend of high-impact dance, crystal-clear storytelling and keen sense of what entertains, it's hard to imagine being disappointed by anything generated by...
