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Heavy Metal
Although Michael Kahn has an exceptional talent for injecting antique plays with contemporary flair, his take on Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist makes one long...
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Songbirds
Washington, D.C., is a city built on two unstable foundations. The first (and most commented on during the summer swelter) is a swamp, though serious...
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Past Presence
David Dower wants to make one thing perfectly clear about The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an Epilogue. ''It's a new play,'' says the Arena...
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Quality Issues
There are some plays that should come with a warning sticker and Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life, is one of them. If you have...
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Portraiture
Round House Theatre's world premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Picture of Dorian Gray is stylish, sexy and unspeakably cool. Unfortunately, it stumbles thanks to the...
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More than a Cabaret
A musical revue featuring songs from the creators of Chicago and Cabaret? Including standards such as ''New York, New York,'' ''Ring Them Bells'' and ''All...
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Camp Out
For pure niche, low-budget, high-impact entertainment, it would be hard to beat the Washington Shakespeare Company's Camille (A Tearjerker): A Travesty on La Dame aux...
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Zero to Hero
On Oct. 14, 1955, the actor and comedian Zero Mostel was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He was asked if he was...
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Poppy Champlin Confidential
What’s on your nightstand?I got a book, water, my phone, my sucky-suck things for in the middle of the night because I have acid reflux....
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Qomedy Tonight!
Poppy Champlin was frustrated. As a lesbian stand-up comic she was landing the right kinds of gigs -- Dinah Shore Classic, Rosie O'Donnell's cruises --...
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Golden Girl
Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...
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Signature Moment
Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...
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Fairy Dust
“The story is, like all Gilbert and Sullivan, very silly,” says Jill Strachan, executive director of the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, of Iolanthe. “Some...
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Purring Along
James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead was one of the first plays to address gay themes. But it was originally a flop on Broadway,...
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Profanity and Puzzlement
We’re all adults here, yes? We can handle a little swearing? A little vulgarity? A conversation that might veer into controversial areas like abortion, adultery...
