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Lie Hard
After Henry V and Richard II, dishes as rich as pheasant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers the clever 17th century confection, Corneille's The Liar. Under...
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Greek Idol
It is to Terrence McNally's great advantage that three of his plays are being staged simultaneously at the Kennedy Center since anyone who sees only...
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Spacing Out
Jared Davis is doing his part to establish a ''holiday for space.'' Now in its third year, his party Countdown to Yuri's Night celebrates the...
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High Notes
It seems that, for as long as there have been people, there have been individuals trying to map dividing lines. To determine the boundaries between...
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War Room
In keeping with its mission to stage vintage treasures, The American Century Theater brings us Donald Bevan's and Edmund Trzcinski's Stalag 17 in its original...
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Fun with Flora
What does one say about a musical whose leads include a man-eating plant? A musical that causes most people to think not of Broadway (or...
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Prime Real Estate
In the words of Led Zeppelin, ''Upon us all, a little rain must fall.'' And so it does, briefly, at the beginning and end of...
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Light Fantastic
There is nothing small about the musical The Light in the Piazza. The songbook is page after page of grand gestures, ornate flourishes and the...
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Hitchcocked
''I'll never be able to watch a Hitchcock movie again without laughing,'' said one viewer of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in a posting to...
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Crowning Achivement
There are a litany of reasons to see both Richard II and Henry V, currently in rep at the Shakespeare Theatre. Among them, the joy...
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Nirvana
Here are the top five reasons to make your way to the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan to check out Landless Theatre Co.'s production...
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Latino Flair
There is an undeniable excitement that comes from talking to playwright Nilo Cruz. It's not a kind of idol worship. Not the realization that one...
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Bloodshed, Bigotry and Beauty
Signature Theatre's Sweeney Todd is a nightmare drawn by Edward Gorey and colored by a shipwrecked orchestra. A lonely fairy tale featuring a peculiar assortment...
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Money Pit
Although there will, without doubt, be many advantages to the Washington Shakespeare Company's move next season to the high-profile theatrical spaces of Rosslyn's Art Space...
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Pyramidic Victory
If rumors of Synetic Theater's Euro-Slavic techno scores, not-so-classical dancing, and penchant for interpreting Shakespeare minus the spoken word have repelled rather than attracted you,...
