Stage
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Perfect Reception
There are some individuals who can make your life exponentially easier if you consistently remind yourself how much power they wield. Waiters. Restaurant hosts. Bartenders...
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Hounds of Love
In his somewhat overlong, overdone comic-poignant The Dog in the Manger, now at The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Spanish Renaissance playwright Lope de Vega...
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Balancing Act
The playwright Edward Albee is quoted as saying that those audience members able to detect the love story in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia...
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Log Cabin Republican
While it would be a stretch to say that it is the main question on the minds of Washingtonians discussing the re-opening of Ford's Theatre,...
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Devil's Reign
Capturing a mood somewhere between Clive Barker's cult-classic Hellraiser and Ken Russell's hilariously creepy Lair of the White Worm, Synetic's no-holds-barred Dante's Divine Comedy is,...
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Chilly Willy
The year was 1990. Madonna, decked out in her finest Marie Antoinette drag, hit the stage of the MTV Awards and made a song that...
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Pruned Orchard
Despite a somewhat charged undercurrent, a plethora of highly-choreographed visuals, and some interesting and solid performances, Washington Shakespeare Company's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
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Memorable Tune
Tommy Tune Jan. 1, 2009, officially marked Tommy Tune's 50th year in show business. And the lanky, improbably tall dancer-choreographer is commemorating the occasion by...
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Comic Relief
When the phrase ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is uttered it is almost assured that most will leap to an image of Audrey Hepburn peering into the...
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Noises On
Sitting in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre audience for Mike Daisey's one-man show, How Theater Failed America, you may find yourself wondering, ''Is Mike Daisey talking...
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Stage: The Best of 2008
I wasn't sure that I'd be able to come up with a list for best shows of 2008. I'm not going to get all dramatic...
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Pretty in Pink
Let's get right to the point. It is as silly and bubblegum as you thought it would be. Those question marks you included the first...
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Musical Therapy
You have to hand it to D.C.'s theater community. They never miss a chance to surprise or, perhaps more accurately, to shock. Arena Stage has...
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Broken Wing
In many ways, the theater is an ideal home for the dramatic treatment of subjects controversial, disturbing and even sickening. Alive, breathing and intimate, the...
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Epic Intimacy
It's been some 20 years since Victor Hugo's novel of students and street hustlers took to the stage in a spectacle about poverty, true love...
