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  • Overboard

    By on April 12, 2006

    Like a bottle of premium champagne that's lost all its fizz, Olney Theatre Center's flat and flimsy Anything Goes manages to somehow relay all of...

  • Bliss Free

    By on April 5, 2006

    Is there anything Will Gartshore can't do? After spectacular turns in last year's Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad, the local superhero manages...

  • Broadway Bound

    By on March 29, 2006

    ''A choreographer is always unhappy,'' says Maurice Hines. ''We're always unhappy with our choreography.'' But during a recent dress rehearsal for Hot Feet, the lavish...

  • War Torn

    By on March 29, 2006

    Enterprising dad: Bakula and cast (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) It's hard to get excited about a musical set during the American Civil War, no...

  • It's Showtime!

    By on March 15, 2006

    ''We're presenting four different styles, four different composers, four different eras,'' says Jeff Buhrman, artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. ''It's...

  • Dry Plains Drifter

    By on March 15, 2006

    The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...

  • Play Time

    By on March 8, 2006

    Harry Potter has nothing on Haroun Khalifa. Even though the scholarly little wizard sets off on epic adventures soaring with myth and illusion, Salman Rushdie's...

  • Possessive Behavior

    By on March 1, 2006

    They could be anywhere in the world conjuring up their unique blend of pantomime and dance, music and emotion. Yet Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, that...

  • Webb of Truth

    By on March 1, 2006

    ''It just so happens that my two most recent credits both happened to be gay men,'' says Jeremy Webb of his TV work. ''[Law &...

  • Mamet's Girls

    By on February 22, 2006

    That Kate Eastwood Norris. You can't help but fall for her adorable little chuckle and wry, impish grin. She's a sprite of the stage. And...

  • Special Delivery

    By on February 15, 2006

    Painful memory: the cast of Midwives (Photo by Stan Barouh) At a home in Northeast Kingdom, Vt., in the early 1980s, a ferocious winter storm...

  • Velvet Touch

    By on February 15, 2006

    It's turning out to be a banner year for Will Gartshore. Last week, the actor nabbed two Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor...

  • Cracked

    By on February 8, 2006

    Summer of 2003 changed everything for Lucas Zarwell. The forensic scientist was satisfying his creative side, assembling a one-time variety show with Cherry Red's avant-garde...

  • Nightmare Pursuit

    By on February 8, 2006

    Remember when you were growing up and trying to fall asleep at night as weird and wispy shadows crept across your bedroom walls? With one...

  • Sweet Satisfaction

    By on February 1, 2006

    There is a joy that comes with discovering a piece of theater so brilliant and so gratifying that you leave your seat intoxicated. That's a...