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Ben Demers, a Baltimore native, has been a theater enthusiast since a young age. He studied drama and voice at Vassar College, performing in numerous plays, musicals, and operas. By day, he is a legal assistant in a DC law firm, and in his spare time, he enjoys debating the artistic merits of horror movies, tearing up the dance floor, and performing music on guitar and piano. He is thrilled to experience all the dynamic, exciting theater that DC has to offer.

Chicago

October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A web of betrayal, scandal, and murder is brewing deep in the heart of Columbia, MD. In their crowd-pleasing production of Chicago, Toby’s Dinner Theatre puts their own stamp on the sordid story of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, transporting audiences from the cozy performance space into a tale of criminal intrigue as big as the Windy City itself. [Read more...]

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A Moon for the Misbegotten

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama A Moon for the Misbegotten,  two lost souls reach out to each other across a blighted stretch of earth, riding waves of hope and heartbreak in pursuit of a love that was doomed from the very beginning. [Read more...]

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Impossible Theater debuts with Macbeth

August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s a bold move for a new theater company to tackle a well known Shakespearean work in their first outing; it’s another thing entirely to take on a show that is the very definition of bad luck in theater circles. Impossible Theater Company has done just that, overcoming the curse of “The Scottish Play” and making a confident entrance to the DC theater community with their ambitious spin on Shakespeare’s superstition-riddled tragedy, Macbeth. [Read more...]

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When ET Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If aliens came to visit Earth, would we be proud of our world? James Levy’s joyful sci-fi rock opera puts humanity under the microscope as we observe first contact between a fading rock star and a few very groovy extraterrestrials. [Read more...]

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I Love You, (We’re F*cked)

July 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

With a devilish smile and nose for storytelling, Kevin J. Thornton could be the life of any party. In his one man show, I Love You, (We’re F*cked), he brings the audience on an uproarious, bittersweet road trip through his personal tale of love, heartbreak, and endless struggle for personal growth. [Read more...]

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Gallantry: a Soap Opera in One Act

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Faced with the sad decline of the American soap opera, where can a hungry populace turn for their daily fix of melodrama and overblown romance? It’s Opera Alterna to the rescue, offering up a slice of daytime drama with a classical twist in their inspired musical farce, Gallantry: a Soap Opera in One Act. [Read more...]

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A Year of Living Dangerously

July 12, 2011 By 1 Comment

So an Orioles fan, a fireworks salesman, a theater critic, and a “Polar Bear” walk into a theater. Those trying to decipher this curious lineup won’t find a punch line, but rather an absorbing quartet of stories constituting Brent Englar’s A Year of Living Dangerously. [Read more...]

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Apocalypse Story

July 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In a post-apocalyptic America, two men compete over the last woman and that last bag of barbecue Fritos. Zero Hour Theatre’s amusing Apocalypse Story explores the tension that boils over when two Omega Men meet one Omega Woman in a nuclear wasteland. [Read more...]

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The Complete World of Sports (Abridged)

July 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Summertime is a perennial black hole for mainstream sports in the United States, with only baseball, golf, tennis, and the occasional Olympics or World Cup to distract from the doldrums of daily life.  The Reduced Shakespeare Company knows this, and has proposed a novel solution: cram every sport known to man into a The Complete World of Sports (Abridged), a snappy comic romp that lampoons human competition from prehistoric times to the present day. [Read more...]

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Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The United States is at a crossroads. Terrorists lurk around every corner, a shadow government pulls the country’s strings in secret, and the Church has been invaded by sleazy smut peddlers. That is, according to Christopher Durang. [Read more...]

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