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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...
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Life Before Wartime
''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...
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Nuts
Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...
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South Rising
Regardless of the geographic realities, there are times when one could be quite sure that the Mason-Dixon Line runs right through the center of our...
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Broadway Bebe
A few years ago, Bebe Neuwirth created an uproarious caricature of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter on Al Franken's Air America radio show. ''I think she...
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Storyteller
The stoop is a culture all its own. It's a city thing, somehow different than the rural or small-town front porch. It's the original social-networking...
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Troubled Pathway
One of the toughest lessons to teach a beginning visual artist is the understanding that every piece they create will not be a finished work...
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God Damned
Alas, where to begin? There are but two ways of looking at director Ethan McSweeny's interpretation of Euripides' Ion: It is either a masterpiece of...
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Garden Party
Let's get this out of the way right off the top. Yes, Miss Pixie's Backroom Palace is the storeroom of the fantastic Miss Pixie's ''furnishings...
