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The Roundabout is offering us some very large scale productions this season, and Cyrano de Bergerac at the American Airlines Theatre is certainly one of them. Edmond Rostand wrote it in 1897 and it was inspired by the adventures of the real “Cyrano” who romped around France in the mid seventeenth century during the reigns of Louis XIII and IX. Rostand gave him a story of his own invention, but he populated it with some of the real Cyrano’s relatives and acquaintances. [Read more...]
A taste of Scottish culture and an extraordinary journey can be washed down with an ice-cold beer, courtesy of a traveling troupe of actors who will perform in one of D.C.’s popular bars. [Read more...]
Michael Stebbins had to grow up, but lately he’s been thinking about the boy who never did. Peter Pan’s undying, almost mythic legacy led Stebbins, the Producing Artistic Director at Rep Stage, to read more deeply into the works of J. M. Barrie. It was here that he discovered Mary Rose, a chilling and powerful late play of Barrie’s that took many of the themes of Peter Pan to darker, more haunting places. [Read more...]
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