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  • Scary Carrie? Barely

    By on March 25, 2012

    Once you see it, you can't un-see it. That's the parting message of Carrie. Unfortunately, there isn't much to see or un-see at the Lucille...

  • Eastern Edge: 'Brother Russia'

    By on March 23, 2012

    While 1776 celebrates the Declaration of Independence at Ford's Theatre, revolution is brewing at Signature Theatre, too, in the world premiere of the musical Brother...

  • American Overture: '1776'

    By on March 23, 2012

    Why should the National Archives have all the fun? For the next couple of months, Ford's Theatre has cornered the market on celebrating the Declaration...

  • Hearts Afire

    By on March 21, 2012

    We can all be forgiven a bit of nostalgia for that kinder, gentler time when ''American values'' and all they connote, were more an organic...

  • Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last August, Stephen Sondheim took to the New York Times to attack Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Audra McDonald for being arrogant and disrespectful in...

  • The Vanishing

    By on March 14, 2012

    There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately,...

  • Generating Sparks

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last weekend, Hal Sparks helped Chely Wright launch an LGBT center in Kansas City, Mo. Of course, Fred Phelps and his nearby Westboro Baptist Church...

  • Amsterdamned

    By on March 8, 2012

    Who over 30 hasn't thought at some point that know-it-all twentysomethings -- lounging in their skinny jeans, tweeting about their favorite CW shows -- will...

  • Rocky Concert

    By on March 8, 2012

    Craig Cipollini, and Anthony Preston as Rocky, photographed by Todd Franson, Friday, Feb. 24 If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the...

  • Beyond Bare

    By on February 27, 2012

    When Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010, Carl Menninger might have been more disturbed than most. As a gay assistant professor at...

  • Bad Company

    By on February 23, 2012

    In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...

  • Cree-ative Calling

    By on February 21, 2012

    This Friday, Feb. 24, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors after hours for a special treat ''recommended for mature audiences.''...

  • Review: Blood Wedding

    By on February 16, 2012

    Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...

  • Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

    By on February 16, 2012

    In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...

  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

    By on February 16, 2012

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...