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	<title>Game Boys: Signature Theatre&#39;s Chess does its very best to make you believe that there is nothing sexier than a board game</title>
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Stage: When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of&#44; well&#44; any of those folks on the History Channel identified as being noted authorities on the Cold War&#44; one can make statements like&#44; &#39;&#39;That Cold War was a really funny thing&#46;&#39;&#39; Jeremy Kushnier with the Ensemble &#40;Photo by Scott Suchman&#41; We feared the Russians &#38;ndash&#59; or&#44; more accurately&#44; all communists everywhere &#38;ndash&#59; much like we fear terrorists now&#44; but our Russian spies were sexy bombshells or devilishly clever trained assassins who sported a sense of danger draped about them like a rich black sable&#46; We worried then as we do know about the possibility of nuclear conflict&#44; but&#44; for those whose Cold War memories are largely occupied by President Ronald Reagan&#44; MTV taught us that anything bad could be immediately transformed with the right choreography and&#44; ideally&#44; the arrival of ZZ Top&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>True Love: A familiar face on cable TV&#44; standup comedian Loni Love gives meaning to her surname</title>
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Stage: &#39;&#39;I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone&#44;&#39;&#39; says comedian Loni Love&#46; Love was raised with her brother by a single mother in the projects of Detroit&#46; &#39;&#39;And I can tell you this&#58; As a child&#44; I wouldn&#39;t have cared if it was a man or a woman&#46; I just wanted my mom to not be alone&#46;&#39;&#39; Loni Love Of course&#44; she jokes&#44; &#39;&#39;If it was a woman&#44; I wish she could play basketball&#44; so she could show me how to play&#33;&#39;&#39; Instead of basketball&#44; Love is scoring major points these days as a standup comedian &#45;&#45; one who gives real meaning to her surname&#46; She is gaining prominence for her straight&#45;up comic sensibility and her support for gay rights&#44; including marriage equality&#46; &#39;&#39;I think we all should be treated &#91;equally&#93; and have the same rights&#44;&#39;&#39; says the straight comedian&#44; who is single&#46; &#39;&#39;I don&#39;t see why people should not be allowed &#91;to marry&#93;&#46; Because&#44; you know&#44; love is hard&#46; To find somebody and have chemistry with somebody&#44; and then not be allowed to have a &#91;legal&#93; commitment with that person&#63; I don&#39;t understand that&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Puppet Masters: Some of Michael Liscio Jr&#46; and Brent Michael DiRoma&#39;s best puppet friends may or may not be gay</title>
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Stage: Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company&#39;s Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly photographers and interviewers&#44; along with a few theater publicists&#44; get situated&#46; In a voice that falls somewhere between classic Shakespearean actor and parody of a classic Shakespearean actor he begins to read from the frieze that surrounds the room&#44; &#39;&#39;All the world&#39;s a stage&#38;hellip&#59;&#39;&#39; Nicky and Michael Liscio Jr&#46; &#40;left&#41;&#44; with Rod and Brent Michael DiRoma &#40;Photo by Todd Franson &#41; He&#39;s dropped his voice down from his regular speaking voice&#46; There&#39;s the hint of an accent&#46; Perfect enunciation&#46; One can imagine someone walking into the chaos that surrounds DiRoma and being struck by the focus of this young professional&#46; Castmate Michael Liscio Jr&#46; has a different take&#46; &#39;&#39;If I walked in right now and didn&#39;t know you&#44; I would punch you&#44;&#39;&#39; he laughs&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Funny Noises: Keegan Theatre punches up the summer with a bit of brilliantly executed horseplay in Noises Off</title>
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Stage: If you&#39;re familiar with Washington&#39;s Church Street Theater&#44; tucked away as it is on an unassuming&#44; tree&#45;lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood favorites JR&#46;&#39;s and Annie&#39;s&#44; you know this&#46; The brick&#45;walled theater has played host to many fantastic &#38;ndash&#59; sometimes shockingly so &#38;ndash&#59; productions&#46; Nuts for Noises&#58; Brianna Letourneau&#44; Robert Leembruggen &#40;Photo by Jim Coates&#41; It was&#44; after all&#44; not long ago that The Keegan Theatre&#44; Church Street&#39;s resident company&#44; surprised everyone with its dynamic&#44; Helen Hayes Award&#45;winning production of Rent&#46; In that space they have danced at Lughnasa&#44; tilted at windmills with Don Quixote and even made a go of bringing The Graduate&#39;s swinging &#39;60s vibe to life&#46; But Keegan has now&#44; for God knows what reason&#44; allowed a cast of barely competent&#44; ill&#45;tempered&#44; hammy English actors to lay waste to their onstage home&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Sing Out Loud: Avenue Q is as funny&#44; surprising and shocking as ever&#44; while Passing Strange is a tempest in a too small teapot</title>
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Stage: Despite the time that&#39;s passed since Robert Lopez&#44; Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity&#45;spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe&#45;tappers as &#39;&#39;The Internet is for Porn&#44;&#34; &#39;&#39;Everyone&#39;s a Little Bit Racist&#39;&#39; and that ode to loud sex &#39;&#39;You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want &#40;When You&#39;re Makin&#39; Love&#41;&#44;&#34; Avenue Q is just as funny&#44; surprising and good&#45;naturedly shocking as ever&#46; Avenue Q To the great advantage of the show&#39;s national touring company&#44; the folks at the Shakespeare Theatre Company have moved the production&#39;s pre&#45;gentrification urban neighborhood into the 451&#45;seat Lansburgh Theatre&#46; It&#39;s a great mix of intimate space&#44; traditional grand theater trappings and&#44; well&#44; graphic live puppet sex&#46; If you&#39;ve never taken the subway out to Avenue Q&#44; the premise is not unlike that of a lot of plays and musicals &#45;&#45; except for the fact that most of the characters are puppets&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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