I once made the mistake of taking two young children to a Christmas play where all they enjoyed was an expensive nap. What a shame that the charming new Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe now playing at the Kennedy Center was not an available alternative. [Read more...]
Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I once made the mistake of taking two young children to a Christmas play where all they enjoyed was an expensive nap. What a shame that the charming new Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe now playing at the Kennedy Center was not an available alternative. [Read more...]
Hamlet, Bye Bye Birdie and Girl Crazy
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
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What do you get when you take a 1953 classic, update it with snazzy new seats, carpeting and accessories, but keep the chassis? In Studio Theatre’s fitfully entertaining retrofit of Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman’s The Solid Gold Cadillac, what you get is a chance to spend a couple of entertaining hours in the company of a dozen D.C. classics, [Read more...]
White Christmas
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Like Sarah Lee, nobody doesn’t love White Christmas. And so if David Ives and Paul Blake have constructed a pallid book which is little more than a sagging tree to be hung with Irving Berlin’s ornaments, [Read more...]
