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Walking Wounded
You can't be blamed for balking at the idea of seeing Ruined, a play that confronts head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during...
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Stage Manager
Michael Bobbitt was surprised when he learned the No Rules Theatre Company wanted to honor him with its Distinguished Artist In Their Youth award --...
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Girl's Night In
Shining like a small but powerful beacon from its quiet corner in Arlington, The American Century Theater continues its extraordinary mission to seek out and...
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Express Yourself
The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...
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For Art's Sake
Just as a piece of modern art can at first seem deceptively simple, so the premise of Yasmina Reza's Art, at first blush, appears remarkably...
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Taking Liberty
It's a small world, after all. No, there are no animated dolls serenading you about global peace and world unity in a trip around Ford's...
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Lights Up
The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...
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Send in the Clowns
For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...
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Bountiful Journey
There's a key reason to see The Trip to Bountiful currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda and it's not what you might think. Or...
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Jewish Conflict
You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...
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Joker's Wilde
For those familiar with Bill Bryson's latest doorstop, At Home, a humorous and highly informative historical account of Anglo-American domestic life, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's...
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Nothin' Dirty Goin' On
The message popped up on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's (GMCW) Facebook page early on Thursday morning, just about a week before the...
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Party Games
There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...
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Close-Out Concert
Jeffrey Johnson recalls Noi Chudnoff shopping at thrift stores for bras and panties -- for him to wear. ''It's so funny,'' he laughs. ''What other...
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Family Ties
The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company's Juno and the Paycock, Sean...
