Stage
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Set to Stun
Christopher Henley photographed by Julian Vankim on Friday, Sept. 10 Going to a Washington Shakespeare Company performance at the Clark Street Playhouse was always something...
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Imposter, Muse and a False Note
When Patricia Highsmith created Tom Ripley, she created an evil that was terrifying because it was so deliciously attractive. Smart. Disturbingly sexual. Enticingly dangerous. Writer...
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High Notes
Falsettos is about a gay man – a father – who divorces his wife but vows to keep the family together. In 1992, during the...
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Anti-Climax
Over-hyped, overlong and ultimately under-sexed, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play leaves much to be desired. Trying for the ever bigger...
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Revolutions
We all have that negative thing that lurks in the back of our head with surprising ferocity. Maybe it was a moment of humiliation so...
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True Love
''I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone,'' says comedian Loni Love. Love was raised with her brother by...
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Game Boys
When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...
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Funny Noises
If you're familiar with Washington's Church Street Theater, tucked away as it is on an unassuming, tree-lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood...
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Puppet Masters
Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...
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Sing Out Loud
Despite the time that's passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...
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Jolly Holiday
For every Lion King, there is a Little Mermaid. For every Beauty and the Beast, there is a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. There is perhaps...
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Lip Service
Special Agent Galactica is every woman – figuratively. The lip-syncing character whose attire usually entails a pink wig, short dress, heels and subtle makeup, ''channels''...
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Wise Guy
''I'm still working this out.'' If you walk away from Theater J's production of David Ives's play New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza...
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Life's a Cabaret
In a few weeks, Colleen McHugh will perform ''Friend of Dorothy: The Songs of Judy Garland'' at Signature Theatre. ''I mean, that's so stereotypical, but...
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Glamourpusses
If, since hearing about Studio Theatre's decision to mount a new production of Legends! starring James Lecesne and John Epperson (aka Lypsinka) in the leading...
