All posts tagged "arena stage"
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Leading Light
Nicholas Rodriguez has toured as the King of the Jews (Jesus, in Jesus Christ Superstar) and appeared on Broadway as the King of the Apes...
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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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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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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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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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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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Men Uplifting
Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...
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Oscar! Oscar!
For native Washingtonian-turned-New Yorker Brad Oscar, The Mystery of Irma Vep is more than just a play, it's a homecoming. ''Ironically, one of my first...
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Unapologetic
If you watched the Tony Awards this past Sunday you saw Lily Tomlin deliver the set-up for a performance from the Broadway musical Xanadu. Reduced...
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Miller Time
Anyone lucky enough to see Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge consecutively (and thanks to Arena's Arthur Miller Festival,...
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Sound and Fury
There are those in the theater who will tell you that their ultimate goal is to transport the audience. They will say the greatest success...
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Scrooging Around
If you are searching for the essential holiday theater ticket for the Aunt Bee in your life, look no further than Arena's premiere of Christmas...
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Musical Goldmine
The wonder of this musical theater version of Gloria Naylor's novel, The Women of Brewster Place, is all the honey where you would expect vinegar....
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Tough Lessons
When Ernest J. Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 it found fast fame. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, awarded a National...
