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	<title>Long Story Short: DC Queer Theatre Festival offers short plays for the whole community</title>
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Stage: &#39;&#39;There&#39;s no real local GLBT theater company that&#39;s producing regularly&#44;&#39;&#39; says Matt Ripa&#46; &#39;&#39;When you do see theater companies that are doing plays with gay themes&#44; it&#39;s very specifically gay&#45;white&#45;male themes&#46; We want to be a voice for the rest of our community&#46;&#39;&#39; DC Queer Theatre Festival&#58; Matt Ripa and Alan Balch Ripa is referring to the DC Queer Theatre Festival&#44; which he started last year with Rebecca Gingrich&#45;Jones and Alan Balch at the behest of The DC Center&#46; &#39;&#39;When we did the first year of the festival we weren&#39;t sure if we were going to do more&#44; but we really liked how it turned out&#44;&#39;&#39; says Ripa&#44; noting that last year&#39;s festival raised over &#36;800 for The DC Center&#46; They decided to expand the festival to three days&#44; but focus it on just one program of six 10&#45;minute plays&#46; And instead of staging the plays at The DC Center offices&#44; Ripa and company rented out space at Flashpoint in downtown&#39;s Penn Quarter&#46; Local spoken&#45;word artist and poet Regie Cabico will serve as host for the event&#44; which remains a fundraiser for The DC Center&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Olney&#39;s Edge: The gay&#45;themed play The Submission is a departure for the Maryland theater</title>
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Stage: &#39;&#39;&#91;Some&#93; were a little concerned that this might not be the kind of show you should take your children to&#44;&#39;&#39; says David Elliott&#46; &#39;&#39;Another person argued that this is exactly the kind of show you should take your 16&#45;year&#45;old to&#46;&#39;&#39; Elliott is talking about early crowd reaction to The Submission&#44; now playing at Olney Theatre Center&#46; The exurban Maryland theater company is known for staging high&#45;quality productions&#44; even the occasional provocative play&#46; But Olney is best known for staging surefire fare&#44; principally established musicals such as A Chorus Line and The King and I&#46; Rarely does the company offer an edgy&#44; experimental play like The Submission&#46; The Submission ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Gilgamesh Follies: Constellation&#39;s latest epic is only worth it for the visual stimulation provided by the cast</title>
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Stage: Gilgamesh Right now&#44; there&#39;s a work of art gracing the stage at the Source on 14th Street&#46; And I don&#39;t mean Gilgamesh&#44; the fantastical show created around Yusef Komunyakaa&#39;s flowery prose poetry&#46; Well&#44; not the script or the story of Gilgamesh anyway&#46; Based on an ancient written epic from Mesopotamia&#44; Komunyakaa&#39;s work is too fanciful and over&#45;the&#45;top to fully draw you in or even really understand&#46; You may find yourself asking what&#39;s the point&#63; There&#39;s no clear answer&#44; even with a bit of resolution at show&#39;s end&#46; But the visual spectacle that Constellation Theatre Company has created is&#44; as ever&#44; a sight for sore eyes&#46; Among Constellation&#39;s feats this time out are eye&#45;popping&#44; resplendent costumes by Kendra Rai and imaginative choreography and movement of actors &#45;&#45; who even personify wild creatures and interpret waves in the rough seas &#45;&#45; by choreographer Emma Crane Jaster working with fight director Casey Kaleba and puppet designer Matthew McGee&#46; Tom Teasley&#39;s live percussion&#45;based new age music further enhances the show &#45;&#45; it&#39;s mostly incidental or accentual&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Arid and Overwhelming: This Palm Springs play needs both far less and much more</title>
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Stage: It&#39;s always a little disconcerting when you don&#39;t get what all the fuss is all about&#46; A case in point&#44; Jon Robin Baitz&#39;s Other Desert Cities is an award&#45;winner with a successful Broadway run&#44; and yet beneath its flamboyant premise&#44; flaming one&#45;liners and starkly delineated characters&#44; there is only a tentative foray into its subjects&#58; the bond between parent and adult child and the harsh edge between public and private lives&#46; Of course&#44; the play&#39;s popularity suggests that the flaws are easily ignored in favor of Baitz&#39;s cleverly conceived color&#44; comedy and driven characters&#46; But noisy and energetic shouldn&#39;t be confused with insightful&#44; especially when there are plays such as Tracy Letts&#39;s August&#58; Osage County stalking the same territory&#46; Still&#44; Baitz is not without craft and ideas&#46; His vehicle &#38;ndash&#59; a Christmas Eve reunion between the older&#44; wealthy and deeply status&#45;conscious Wyeth parents and their liberal East Coast adult daughter&#44; Brooke&#44; and West Coast TV producer son&#44; Trip &#38;ndash&#59; is fertile ground for some interesting &#40;and funny&#41; cultural clashes&#46; And its engine &#38;ndash&#59; Brooke&#39;s anxious revelation that she has written a book that may upset her parents &#38;ndash&#59; invites a far trickier and more provocative contest&#46; Other Desert Cities ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>All for One: Synetic&#39;s Musketeers dazzles with storytelling that is not simply entertaining&#44; but transporting</title>
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Stage: Though the urge to wax lyrical is almost overpowering &#40;and follows below&#41;&#44; let&#39;s cut to the chase&#58; Synetic&#39;s The Three Musketeers is a joyously accessible adaptation of Alexandre Dumas&#39;s classic swashbuckler and is simply&#44; absolutely&#44; the most superb fun&#44; whether you are a diehard Synetic fan or chose this as your first foray into the unique world of this one&#45;of&#45;a&#45;kind theater company&#46; With an adaptation &#40;by Ben and Peter Cunis&#41; of the novel delivered in a whirl of wild and wonderful characters&#44; witty and silly dialogue and a plethora of acrobatics and flashing blades&#44; there is visually&#44; spatially and literally never a dull moment&#46; Three Musketeers&#58; Peter Pereyraas as Rochefort and Dallas Tolentinoas as D&#39;Artagnan ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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