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  • Home on the Range

    By on November 10, 2010

    Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...

  • Oklahoma at Arena Stage

    By on November 9, 2010

    Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma!in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic...

  • Oklahoma at Arena Stage

    By on October 29, 2010

    Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma! in the robust world of territory life filled with a...

  • Arena Stage Homecoming

    By on October 22, 2010

    The President and First Lady help open Arena Stage’s sparkling new Southwest complex with a gala ceremony on Monday, Oct. 25, but first comes a...

  • Light Fantastic

    By on March 17, 2010

    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...

  • Leading Light

    By on March 11, 2010

    Nicholas Rodriguez has toured as the King of the Jews (Jesus, in Jesus Christ Superstar) and appeared on Broadway as the King of the Apes...

  • Past Presence

    By on September 30, 2009

    David Dower wants to make one thing perfectly clear about The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an Epilogue. ''It's a new play,'' says the Arena...

  • Quality Issues

    By on September 23, 2009

    There are some plays that should come with a warning sticker and Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life, is one of them. If you have...

  • Feeling Loopy

    By on June 10, 2009

    Generally, when reading a theater review in Metro Weekly, you don't see Many ''I'' statements. ''I liked this.'' ''I didn't like that.'' ''I had trouble...

  • Rhoda Returns

    By on May 20, 2009

    ''She was so much more outrageous than I would ever think of being,'' says Valerie Harper of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. ''She would make Rhoda...

  • Balancing Act

    By on February 18, 2009

    The playwright Edward Albee is quoted as saying that those audience members able to detect the love story in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia...

  • Musical Therapy

    By on December 23, 2008

    You have to hand it to D.C.'s theater community. They never miss a chance to surprise or, perhaps more accurately, to shock. Arena Stage has...

  • Men Uplifting

    By on September 17, 2008

    Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...

  • Oscar! Oscar!

    By on July 2, 2008

    For native Washingtonian-turned-New Yorker Brad Oscar, The Mystery of Irma Vep is more than just a play, it's a homecoming. ''Ironically, one of my first...

  • Unapologetic

    By on June 18, 2008

    If you watched the Tony Awards this past Sunday you saw Lily Tomlin deliver the set-up for a performance from the Broadway musical Xanadu. Reduced...