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		<title>Seminar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theresa Rebeck is a playwright who combines the politically active mind of the late Lillian Hellman and the brittle wit of the late Jean Kerr, two formidable playwrights who greatly enriched Broadway seasons from the 1930s through the 1960s.  Rebeck has  learned her craft, her plays are well constructed, and they offer rich roles for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (revisited)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/30/how-to-succeed-in-business-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught a matinee of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this week, and as I watched young Nick Jonas prancing about as J. Pierrepont Finch in the current Broadway revival of  the Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows master work, I suddenly had a revelation about the recent and current  Broadway scene. Nick Jonas as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wit</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/27/wit-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Edson is that rare bird, a playwright whose first play, Wit, earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  That alone makes her unique, but she becomes more so when we realize that she has never had another play produced and is &#8220;committed to teaching, now&#8221;, but unlike the heroine of her play, who as teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porgy and Bess</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/23/porgy-and-bess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle has begun. I&#8217;ve been reading followup columns from the critics of the New York Times and other prominent commentators admitting that some of their nitpicking reviews of the current revival of Porgy and Bess are not consistent with the reaction they have been receiving from their readers.  I am not a student of opera, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Mecca</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/18/the-road-to-mecca-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athol Fugard, South African playwright, had been writing plays for 20 years when The Road to Mecca was first mounted in 1988. Clearly a personal diatribe against the platitudes inherent in so much of organized religion, he should have known by the time he wrote this play that a debate between two opponents a play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidentally, Like a Martyr</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/31/accidentally-like-a-martyr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually take you along with me when I go trouping off/off Broadway, but I&#8217;m making an exception because last evening I stumbled on a special treat and as it will run through January 7th, you might just catch it if you plan to be in New York during this next week. From left: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Up Space</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/23/close-up-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hyde Pierce clearly likes to keep working, for which we are grateful. Ever since his long run as Frasier&#8217;s brother Niles on the sitcom &#8220;Frasier,&#8221;  he has returned to his stage roots by appearing seasonally, showing us the range of his talents. For though the basic Pierce shines through in each of his characterizations, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lysistrata Jones</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/19/lysistrata-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in what now seems like the &#8220;not so good old days,&#8221; each Broadway season seemed to offer at least one fun filled show about athletes (all male then)  and the ladies in their lives.  The package included  melodic scores, topical lyrics and ebullient dancing. The genre slipped away in the post-WWII evolution of musicals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinglish</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/15/chinglish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we have a comedy, a first, dealing with meeting the needs of the USA and China when doing business together. In Chinglish,  David Henry Hwang&#8217;s play, a smalltime American business man is visiting a small company in Guiyang,China in an attempt to get a contract for his sign company to produce signs in English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman &#8211; Back on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/12/hugh-jackman-back-on-broadway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several Hugh Jackmans.  The most familiar perhaps is the X Man &#8220;Wolverine,&#8221; but that hairy ape has little to do with at least four other Jackmans on display in this event.  There is the beautifully produced baritone, the one who can sing the leads in Kiss Me, Kate, Show Boat, Oklahoma! or just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Watch</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/12/neighborhood-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 75 plays under his belt, it would appear that Alan Ayckbourn can find two hours worth of entertainment and enlightenment in  any of his own actual or imagined experiences as he lives out his life in Scarborough, England.  It is in that seaside town that he has a theatrical home in the Stephen Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of the Prophet</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/05/sons-of-the-prophet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to offer you a focused picture of Stephen Karam&#8217;s Sons of the Prophet at the Roundabout&#8217;s Laura Pels Theatre. It manages  to tell a dark story with humor and insight, and even at 100 uninterrupted minutes, it never fails to engage and intrigue, but ultimately it is more interesting than moving.Set in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie and Clyde</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/02/bonnie-and-clyde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took 25 producers and/or production companies to offer Frank Wildhorn a seventh crack at Broadway after his six previous attempts didn&#8217;t quite work out. His first, Jekyll and Hyde, did manage a very good run ten years ago , and Victor,Victoria to which he contributed three songs, also had a decent run with Julie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Angels</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/23/city-of-angels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut is to be commended for unearthing City of Angels, a 1989 hit Broadway musical that is rarely done. It&#8217;s a very different sort of musical, with a jazzy score by Cy Coleman who has said: &#8220;I wanted to present real jazz as opposed to pastiche or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing on Ceremony, the Gay Marriage Plays</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/17/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/17/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The closet is, at last, wide open. No more need for gay characters to parade around pretending to be women, which was the game played up through the mid-twentieth century.  When even a hint of the love that dare not speak its name was offered onstage (The Captive, The Green Bay Tree) whispers were heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venus in Fur</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/14/venus-in-fur-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ives&#8217; contribution to our Broadway season, courtesy of the Manhattan Theatre Club is, as the King of Siam used to say, &#8220;a puzzlement.&#8221;  Starting as a hilarious backstage comedy involving a playwright/director and an aspiring actress who, though late for her audition, is desperate to be allowed to read, and through all sorts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/01/children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1974, A.R.Gurney&#8217;s Children was produced by Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was Gurney&#8217;s first full length play and it arrived on our shores following a successful London run at the Mermaid Theatre which starred Constance Cummings. Here, its four person cast included Nancy Marchand, Swoozie Kurtz, Holland Taylor and Dennis Howard; under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relatively Speaking</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/21/relatively-speaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relatively Speaking is the collective title for three one act plays by three who usually turn their talents toward the screen.  Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen are three stagestruck screenwriters who drop in on us in theatre every now and then and bring their acerbit wit along with them. In the order in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lyons</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/20/the-lyons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The various Manhattan not-for-profit theatres have done us all a great service by offering a home to a dozen talented playwrights. Theatres like Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, the Vineyard, Atlantic Theatre Company, 2nd Stage, Playwrights&#8217; Horizons and others have presented dozens of plays by the likes of Terrence McNally, John Robin Baitz, Tom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Shoulda Been You</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/17/it-shoulda-been-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nowhere near June yet love and marriage seem to be in the theatrical air as Hallowe&#8217;en approaches. On October 14th. the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey opened a new musical comedy called It Shoulda Been You with all the attendant hoopla of a Hollywood preem. Klieg lights searched the sky, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man and Boy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/10/man-and-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Langella&#8217;s performance is spell-weaving In late 1963, Terrence Rattigan&#8217;s play Man and Boy opened on Broadway with a cast headed by film star Charles Boyer, where it limped along for 54 performances.  It followed the London run, which was also brief.  By 1963 Mr. Rattigan was assigned to the shelf by the &#8220;in&#8221; crowd, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsies</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/28/newsies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Disney Company has clearly put a good deal of Lion King money into this attempt to reinvent a movie of theirs from 1992: Newsies. The film lost almost $12,000,000 so one might wonder why.  Now that the musical has opened the season at the Paper Mill Playhouse in MilburnNJ, with an enlarged score by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Submission</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/28/the-submission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say thanks to whomever you say thanks to, for we have a new playwright among us. His name? Jeff Talbott, and he is the recipient of the first ever Arthur Laurents-Tom Hatcher Award, which honored him with $50,000 plus $100,000 for production costs for his prize winning play The Submission. Manhattan Class Company (MCC) is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporal Powers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/20/temporal-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Bank runs a pretty tight ship over there at the Mint Theater Company, one of our off-Broadway treasures. In the most unpretentious of black box theatres on the third floor of a 43rd Street office building, he has given us productions of long forgotten or little known works by playwrights who were, in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder at The Regency</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/20/michael-feinstein-and-linda-eder-at-the-regency/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/20/michael-feinstein-and-linda-eder-at-the-regency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually cover the Cabaret world, but as Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder have both graced Broadway stages on their career trajectories, I thought you might like to know how they&#8217;re doing when they are up there just inches away from you, on their own without benefit of plot, full orchestra or an audience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follies</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/13/follies-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sondheim&#8217;s Follies is back on Broadway, and in this time of earthquakes, hurricanes and political chaos, that&#8217;s a good thing. Set in 1971, for two and a half hours it permits us escape into the complicated psychological landscape of four very average folks, two of whom graced the stage as chorus girls in an imagined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War Horse</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/08/03/war-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This import from the National Theatre in London, at the Beaumont Theatre in LincolnCenter, is more an experience than a play, and as such it&#8217;s a hum-dinger.  As a play it is less than that, for stripped of its trappings, which are tremendous, it&#8217;s more or less &#8220;Lassie Come Home&#8221; minus dog, plus horse.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever So Humble</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/19/ever-so-humble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekend motor trip through Western New York state and Connecticut brought me to Ithaca where a new comedy by  Tim Pinckney was having a world premiere at the newly refurbished Hangar Theatre, a highly regarded regional theatre, now under the artistic direction of Peter Flynn.  (l-r) Karl Gregory, Erica Steinhagen, Eric T. Miller (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master Class</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/19/master-class-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Tyne Daly as “Maria Callas” is the primary reason to see this smashing revival of Terrence McNally’s play Master Class at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre on Broadway. But I think McNally’s play has been unfairly dismissed as a star vehicle without much power of its own and, in this, I disagree. It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Takes a Holiday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/15/death-takes-a-holiday/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/15/death-takes-a-holiday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Casella’s play, as re-written for the American stage by Walter Ferris for the Shuberts of Broadway, produced in 1929, is rarely if ever revived.  It is set in 1921 in the palazzo of the Duke and Duchess Lamberti and nothing could seem more removed from the New York of the 21st Century. One wonders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Illusion</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/01/the-illusion/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/01/the-illusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) continues to make me question that I was valedictorian at PS 139 once in the long ago. I usually leave theatres in which his plays are playing feeling intellectually inferior, for I have not been moved to laughter or tears at any of his subsequent works. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/18/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/18/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It pains me to say it, but the new Spidey musical, which finally came to rest at the Foxwood Theatre on 42nd Street after a very tough start, should more aptly be called Spider-Man: Turn off the Noise. Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano (Photo: Jacob Cohl) You know how I oppose over-amplified Broadway musicals, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People in the Picture</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/14/the-people-in-the-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Roundabout is offering Donna Murphy to its audiences for a run in a new musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. Ms. Dart is a best selling author, and her novel &#8220;Beaches&#8221; supplied a great role for Bette Midler when it was filmed some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Motherf**ker with the Hat</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/09/the-motherfker-with-the-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/09/the-motherfker-with-the-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long long time ago (December 5, 1941) a small thriller called Angel Street opened on Broadway, and it had one thing in common with The Motherf**ker With The Hat, in that both plays’ plots are moved forward by the discovery of a hat left on a table by someone who’d been in the room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Journey</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/08/a-little-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A perfect example of the well-made boulevard comedy of the early twentieth century has been resurrected by Jonathan Bank and his lovely company of players at the Mint Theatre on the third floor of an office building on West 43rd Street. Under the direction of Jackson Gay, a company of fourteen dedicated actors (playing fifteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/25/jerusalem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 13:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no argument with the general consensus among the critics I’ve read about Jerusalem, the well intended and occasionally powerful play by Jez Butterworth, which has crossed the Atlantic after a very successful run in London’s West End. I have no argument, but I cannot agree. I’ve now read five reviews from respected colleagues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Normal Heart</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/24/the-normal-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Mantello as Ned and John Benjamin Hickey as Felix (Photo: Joan Marcus) The theatre continues to dispense its magic in mysterious ways. Before visiting the current Broadway revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, I’d thought of it as an old warhorse of a tract against the inertia on the part of government when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picked</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/20/picked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 11:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an intriguing title, no?  Short and sweet, if a little hard to distinguish among This, Doubt, Proof, Contact et al, and equally difficult to probe for meaning.  But early on in the first scene we learn that who has been “picked” is an unlikely struggling young actor who’s been, along with his actress girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/19/born-yesterday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 11:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s always with fear and trepidation that I approach a revival of a classic Broadway hit of the 1940s or 1950s because some of them were head and shoulders above the crowd in their own time, and some were blessed with star turns that became iconic. For those of us who were around then, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sister Act</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/16/sister-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the transitional phase that the Broadway musical is currently enjoying, or suffering, depending on your personal viewpoint. It’s not always easy to realize you are in the midst of a turnaround or changeover; often it’s not until years later that you look back and realize, “Oh, I see. [...]]]></description>
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