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Perez Hilton Saves the Universe!

May 17, 2010 By 2 Comments

LOL What!?

Perez, honey, like you need any more attention!

It’s so easy these days. Step one: Kick-start a snarky blog dedicated to harassing Hollywood’s brightest, meanest, cutest, dumbest stars and starlets (that would be the very real PerezHilton.com, America’s go-to website for “Celebrity Juice, Not From Concentrate”). [Read more...]

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Mikveh

May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A ritual is a device by which we give ourselves over to a set of predetermined behaviors, thus eliminating any possibility of choice or decision. At its best, it allows us to release our egos, and rest our minds in the cradle of God’s hands. It is always, though, a form of social control. [Read more...]

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The Best of Friends

May 14, 2010 By 1 Comment

Here is a play about – and I hope this is not a spoiler – three people who are the best of friends, mostly taken from the letters they wrote to each other. You see the problem immediately: friendship is ennobling and a great bulwark against the world’s cares, but unless it is tested in some way, it is not the stuff of great drama. [Read more...]

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Violet interviews

May 14, 2010 By 5 Comments

Bringing us to the light:
Caroline Jane Angell on directing Kensington Arts Theatre’s production of Violet
and actresses Autumn Seavey and Allie Bannigan on playing Violet and Younger Violet

There  is something about the Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical Violet that always grabbed me, puts me through an emotional wringer, and makes me wipe away tears when the character of Flick reprises the song “Promise Me Violet” at the end of the show. [Read more...]

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Helen Hayes Awards organizes petition to stop new D.C. tax on theatres

May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you were in a Washington theatre last night, chances are you heard, announced in a curtain speech, that the D. C. Council is proposing to levy a tax on theatre tickets – a move which will undoubtedly be passed on to audiences in the form of higher prices at the box office. [Read more...]

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American Buffalo

May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The great classic plays are a sort of beach which invite us to play in their waves. Thus we see modern-dress Hamlets, and productions of As You Like It with the history of cinema as a backdrop. It is different for great modern plays like David Mamet’s American Buffalo. [Read more...]

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In the Goldfish Bowl

May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Sometimes you have to shine the light of day into the dark crevices of our society to expose problems that we try to hide.  With In the Goldfish Bowl, Venus Theatre focuses that light on four women on Death Row and exposes some of the injustices of the criminal justice system.  [Read more...]

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Paige in Full

May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Performance artist Paige Hernandez finally gets a chance to take center stage and tell her own story, and man, does she Rock!  Often seen around town as a supporting artist who brings excitement and energy to other people’s work, Hernandez, supported by sibling “Nick tha1da”  as attentive Dj , brings touching insights and a refreshing exuberance to her coming of age story, whose title riffs from “paid in full.” [Read more...]

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Around the World in 80 Days

May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

As much as Lou Grant hated spunk, I hate whimsy. It’s a dastardly thing to capture, and most of the time things meant to be whimsical usually make me want to fall on a wee little knife.

That said, Round House Theatre’s Around the World in 80 Days is a capricious charmer, with director Nick Olcott distilling the right amount of Edwardian-era fancy into the production without glopping things up with preciousness. [Read more...]

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Dr. Knock

May 12, 2010 By 1 Comment

Here is one oldie but goodie that is rarely seen. Dr. Knock or The Triumph of Medicine was, in its native France, a smash hit opening late in 1923, when it caused a sensation in a production starring Louis Jouvet. It was revived six times between 1923 and 1933, and seven more times between 1935 and 1949. Jouvet called it his “magic play” [Read more...]

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