All posts tagged "stage"
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Review: “Laugh” at Studio Theatre
“I just want to laugh,” playwright Beth Henley has been quoted as saying. That may well be, but her latest work, Laugh, fails to incite...
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Stage: Spring Arts Preview 2015
It may feel as though the theater season is winding down, but there are still plenty of great shows to come from all the major...
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Editor’s Pick: Bessie’s Blues at MetroStage
Twenty years ago, Studio Theatre won six Helen Hayes Awards with its production of Bessie’s Blues by Thomas W. Jones II. If you missed its first...
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Editor’s Pick: The Metromanics at The Shakespeare Theatre
A new adaptation of Alexis Piron’s classic 1738 French farce
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The Richmond Triangle Players thrive in a rapidly changing capital
A gay theater company thrives in the rapidly changing capital
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Editor’s Pick: The Turn of the Screw
As the first installment in its five-year Bold New Works for Intimate Stages Initiative, Virginia’s Creative Cauldron commissioned The Turn of the Screw, a musical...
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Fiddle Me This
Fiddler on the Roof's Sheldon Harnick on his musical's lasting appeal
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Editor’s Picks: 5 events and performances not to miss
Editor's Picks
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Danny Kaye springs to life at American Century Theater
The American Century Theater wraps up its 19th season with Brian Childers reprising his role as legendary stage and screen showman Danny Kaye, which earned him...
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Stage: Plays, Musicals and Live Theater
The theatre season may be half over, but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty left to see on D.C. stages, starting with the Kennedy Center,...
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Beaches — from book to movie to musical at Signature
Yes, it’s true: Signature Theatre presents a world premiere musical adapted from the 1985 novel Beaches, best remembered as the 1988 weepy film starring Bette...
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Stage: Live Theater and Musicals in D.C.
It never ceases to amaze how remarkably rich, involving and varied the theater scene in Washington is. But it's always been that way -- only...
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Theatre Alliance “Hums” along
The Theater Alliance presents the world premiere of Nicholas Wardigo’s Hum, an allegory of Orwellian proportions following a couple’s journey to discover what life is...
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Judith Ivey and Carolyn Hax at Monday’s Theater J Benefit
Tony-Award-winning actress Judith Ivey (Steaming, Hurlyburly) plays Ann Landers in Theater J’s one-night-only benefit performance of The Lady With All the Answers, a solo show...
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Faction of Fools scrambles Hamlet
Faction of Fools Theatre Company, the 2012 Helen Hayes Award winner for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, focuses on the Italian commedia dell’Arte theater style of...
