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• They’re Having a Good Time:
• Schmoozing with Jackie Richardson and Janice Lorraine
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• By Joel Markowitz

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• Hedda Gabler
• By Henrik Ibsen
• Adapted by Andrew Upton
• Directed by Christopher Henley
• Produced by Washington Shakespeare Company
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

“Love is a way to sweeten obligation,” says Hedda Gabler (Heather Haney), the anti-Valentine. In Washington Shakespeare Company’s fiercely ambitious production of Ibsen’s 19^th-century classic, love and obligation are at war and the winner is death. (more…)

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• by Karen Zacarias
• Directed by Nick Olcott
• Produced by Round House Theater
• Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

There really were book clubs before Oprah’s.  Really.  The ties that bind through reading and sharing run deep, and, as can be seen in the debuting Book Club Play currently playing at Round House Theatre,woe to the creature who upsets the delicate dynamics. (more…)

• Photograph 51              
• by Anna Ziegler                                                          
• Directed by Mary Resing
• Produced by Active Cultures Theatre  
• Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

DNA.  The combination of those three letters conjures up tales of science, double helixes, and countless CSI episodes.  The intriguing story of Photograph 51 is its exploration of how relationships may have played a role in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA. Now, of course, that infamous double helix is so well-known, even a caveman, well, never mind.  Suffice it to say that understanding the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was tantamount to unlocking the secret of life.  (more…)

• LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
• By Eugene O’Neill
• Directed by Kathi Gollwitzer
• Produced by Firebelly Productions
• Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy

In this soul-stirring Firebelly production of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning, autobiographical play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the ghosts of the past ebb and flow like the tides. Sounds of the sea draw us into a parlor of faded elegance that serves as a sitting room cluttered with books and dominated by a round, claw-foot Victorian table to suggest it is 1912.

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• Swimming in the Shallows
• By Adam Bock
• Directed by Scott Fortier
• Produced by Catalyst Theater Company
• Reviewed by Steven McKnight

Describing Swimming in the Shallows as a quirky little comedy with surreal touches would be accurate, but that description alone would fail to convey what a smart and entertaining production awaits you at Catalyst Theater Company.  (more…)

• Frida Kahlo, the Passion
• By Ricardo Halac
• Directed by Mario Marcel
• Produced by Teatro de La Luna
• Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy

Reproductions of some of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s most famous paintings dangle from the ceiling in the lobby of the Gunston Arts Center. Her self-portraits are memorable-the  unplucked eyebrows that meet in a unibrow over piercing eyes of frozen fire.  (more…)

• Disney High School Musical on Tour!
• Book by David Simpatico (based on the Disney Channel movie by Peter Barsocchini)
• Directed by Jeff Calhoun
• Choreographed by Lisa Stevens
• Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions at the National Theatre
• Reviewed by Gary McMillan

Ah, high school … illicit drug use … teenage pregnancy … functional illiteracy, and a culture of brutish violence running the gamut from bullying to mass murder.

Not on your life! at East High in Disney’s High School Musical, (more…)

• Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
• Performed by LA Theatre Works at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
• by Tim Treanor

Feb 8 — Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers performed last night in the University of Maryland’s Kay Theatre, was a history play with history sitting in the room.

The Geoffrey Cowan-Leroy Aarons collaboration took us to places which, for most of us, existed only in our speculating imaginations: (more…)

The creator and star of 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother speaks with Joel Markowitz

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