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  • Sister Speak

    In 2008 Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size stomped, beat and snarled its way across the Studio Theatre's stage. It was prose poem brought to...

  • Golden Girl

    ''It's a very fun, fun show about my quest to get my own sitcom, about getting a gay family on TV,'' says comedian Judy Gold...

  • Monster Mashed

    Grab your torches and sharpen your pitchforks -- a lumbering beast has been brought to life at the Kennedy Center and the sooner he's driven...

  • Screwballing Around

    Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman's The Solid Gold Cadillac is not a musical, despite that undeniable fact some may well leave Studio Theatre's production...

  • Crack-up Cabaret

    ''I was always kind of fascinated by Martha Graham,'' says Dito van Reigersberg about the larger-than-life dance legend. He calls her ''an almost mythical figure,''...

  • A Light Fantastick

    What would make life easier for all involved would be saying that Arena Stage's new production of The Fantasticks is…fantastic. It's a headline writer's dream...

  • All in the Family

    There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...

  • Lights! Camera! Fraction!

    Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...

  • Victorian Plunge

    When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...

  • Show Time

    At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...

  • Brute Force

    The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men, that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new...

  • Perpetual Motion

    It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...

  • Classic Fare

    Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...

  • Masterpieces

    Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...

  • Comedy and Tragedy

    The biggest problem with the farce is that it has become so much part of the high school theatrical trunk. It's a potent mix for...