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Birdland
Adam Bock's Five Flights features a gay love story -- but that's just one of several subplots. ''Instead of having it be the central issue,...
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Mummy Dearest
Truth is stranger than fiction. Truth that is stranger than fiction set to music becomes doubly so. Before you venture to see GALA Hispanic Theatre's...
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Evita's Closet
Did you know Eva Peron's corpse was perfectly preserved? Or that her mummy was lost for years? ''I just knew part of her story before...
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Great Company
Those sentient during the excesses of the 1980s may recall The The's memorable big-band pastiche Twilight of a Champion in which a scathing Matt Johnson...
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Feeling Loopy
Generally, when reading a theater review in Metro Weekly, you don't see Many ''I'' statements. ''I liked this.'' ''I didn't like that.'' ''I had trouble...
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Landmark Plays
''We wanted to create a very relaxed atmosphere to celebrate and learn about ourselves and our history,'' says Ganymede Arts' Jeffrey Johnson. His theater's current...
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Boxed In
Part of the issue with Constellation Theatre Company's production of Clive Barker's Crazyface is that it's the production of a play written by Clive Barker....
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Rhoda Returns
''She was so much more outrageous than I would ever think of being,'' says Valerie Harper of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. ''She would make Rhoda...
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Designing Woman
Despite the bohemian trendiness of the '30s when Noel Coward wrote Design for Living, he must have known that most audiences, being typically conventional, would...
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Big Country
Everything about the world-premiere musical Giant at Signature Theatre is as big as the title suggests. The ''Texas-sized'' musical features an ambitiously scaled concept, a...
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Whiz Kid
There are the things we know, and then there are the things we don't know. And then there are the things we think we know...
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Great Escape
Ragtime is one of those musicals. It's big. It's opulent. It's filled with infectious songs that will remain firmly in your head for days after...
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Rock On
Tom Stoppard junkies may scoff, but any discussion of Studio's Rock 'N' Roll must begin with the caveat that the uninitiated may wish to either...
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Drinking Again
Pulling it out yet again (sometimes literally in this case), the Washington Shakespeare Company delivers a superbly in-yer-face production of Tennessee Williams' study in disheveled...
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Hall of Fame
It's amazing what people will post online. Leave aside the conversations people will have, loudly, on their cell phones while walking down the street or...
