Stage
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
