All posts tagged "stage"
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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...
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Keegan takes to Dupont Circle
Actors from the Keegan Theatre will step outside of its Church Street home to perform in Dupont Circle this Saturday, May 5. The purpose of...
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Hayes Honors Gays
The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday, April 23, at the Warner Theatre, opened with ''Hello'' from last year's Broadway sensation The Book of...
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Crown of Shadows at the Round House Theatre
Jason Gray Pratt’s Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysses is having its world premiere at the Round House Theatre. It offers a gripping, modern...
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Ford’s turns back the clocks to 1776
A buoyant musical that fits Ford’s Theatre to a T, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates that forged America’s democracy. Sherman Edwards wrote the music and...
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Holland Taylor stars as Ann Richards at the Kennedy Center
On seeing Holland Taylor’s portrayal of former Texas governor Ann Richards for the first time, Don Temples cried. “It was as if someone I love...
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A Second Chance at Signature
Shirlington’s Signature Theatre offers yet another world premiere musical this season — A Second Chance, with book, music and lyrics by Ted Shen (director of...
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Ford’s Theatre tradition: A Christmas Carol
Ford’s Theatre remounts its music-filled production of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron. Edward Gero returns...
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Birds of a Feather
The Hub Theatre presents the world-premiere production of gay humor writer Marc Acito’s Birds of a Feather, an inspiring story about families and the bird-brained...
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Editor’s Pick: Next to Normal
The 2009 Tony-winning musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal is a tour de force examination of contemporary life....
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Ain’t MIsbehavin’ at the Atlas
The Washington Savoyards presents a production of this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue, a tribute to the music of 1930s Harlem, where Thomas “Fats” Waller and...
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The U.S. premiere of As If It Were Tonight
Mario Marcel directs the U.S. premiere of Gracia Morales’ dramatic comedy As If It Were Tonight, starring Andrea Aranguren and Karen Morales-Chacana, focused on a...
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Amadeus at Round House
Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning Amadeus (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...
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Theater Thursday! Art at Signature!
Three longtime friends debate the purchase by one of a hugely expensive painting in Yasmina Reza’s Art. As the friends become increasingly fractious and, eventually,...
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The Helen Hayes Awards: Honoring the Thespians
The Washington theater community has grown in the past quarter century to the point where it is arguably one of the largest, strongest thriving regional...
