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Soul Salvation
Who will save your soul? Long before Alaskan waif Jewel yodeled the question to her audiences, George Bernard Shaw's very non-waiflike Major Barbara was issuing...
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Bathing Beaus
Alan Ball is the celebrated writer behind Six Feet Under and American Beauty. But for local gay director Serge Seiden of the Studio Theatre, it...
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Superficial Ball
All That I Will Ever Be starts with possibly the most insipid act to be found in one of the most stereotypically superficial cities in...
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Time Passages
There are those days when you look up from whatever pile of paper has spread like a cup of spilled coffee across your desk only...
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Purging Playwright
As surreal experiences go, Martin Moran has one that's hard to beat. He's the author of The Tricky Part -- first a Lambda Literary Award-winning...
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Funny Business
If ever you've been torn between stand-up or improvisational comedy, comic Jennie McNulty feels your pain. ''It's not a sketch show, not just stand-up --...
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Pure Gold
It's hard to say what Theater J audiences will carry away with them after seeing Judy Gold perform 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (...
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Acts of Bravery
Over at Woolly Mammoth, sisters are doing it for themselves. The risk-taking downtown theater company has literally packed the house with two one-woman shows. Nilaja...
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Young Bucks
In just a few months, Rent will take its final Broadway bows. The rock remix of Puccini's opera drove some to camp out for days...
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Ship of Dreams
In an age when so many writers of plays (and prose, for that matter) doom their characters to nausea-inducing sincerity or overcooked irreverence in the...
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Sound and Fury
There are those in the theater who will tell you that their ultimate goal is to transport the audience. They will say the greatest success...
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Fairly Perfect
Fair? Hardly. This Lady is fabulous. From the first note to the last, My Fair Lady, now in the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a...
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Daredevils
Attending a performance of the Washington Shakespeare Company feels a little like getting admitted to a very hip club. Like the hole-in-the-wall bar that always...
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Christmas Sneer
It's safe to say that I'm the Scrooge in any holiday gathering. (Hey, it's better than being Tiny Tim.) Christmas spirit -- limited. Holiday cheer...
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Holiday Witticism
Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...
