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		<title>Flora&#8217;s first opening night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 11th marked the 47th anniversary of the opening of a Broadway musical by a new songwriting partnership, brought together by a Broadway agent working on his first big show, and introducing an unknown 19 year old as its star. And as if on cue, that musical is getting ready to be reborn when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely, I&#8217;m Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Stage Theatre has brought New York a charming light soufflé of a play to remind us that spring is here and that balmy spring weather is just around the corner. Olivia Thirlby and Topher Grace (Photo: Joan Marcus) It&#8217;s called Lonely, I&#8217;m Not, and they&#8217;ve offered Topher Grace, free of a seven year run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Work If You Can Get It</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/07/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They might have called this show A LITTLE BITTA THIS, A LITTLE BITTA THAT. I don&#8217;t know the way in which it was formed, but there is a vague connection to Oh, Kay! a hit from 1926 when everybody was very young and George Gershwin a little bit in love with Kay Swift who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/03/once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village is known for its eclectic taste. Recently it housed the one &#8211; man play An Iliad by Dennis O&#8217;Hare.In the fall of 2010  I witnessed a very bizarre take on Lillian Hellman&#8217;s The Little Foxes there, and  recently a musical based on the low budget Irish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leap of Faith</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/leap-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This poor show was treated badly by most of the New York critics, and the Tony committee favored it with only one nomination &#8212; but that was for Best Musical! Now how can you be considered a contender for  &#8221;best&#8221;when none of the creators of the show are mentioned?  Raul Esparza (Photo: Joan Marcus) I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost The Musical</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/ghost-the-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1990, the screenplay of &#8220;Ghost&#8221; earned an Oscar for its author, Bruce Joel Rubin. The film was a crowd pleaser, and that made it instantly eligible for the &#8220;let&#8217;s make a musical of it&#8221; crowd.  So Mr. Rubin joined up with Dave Stewart, a British musician, producer, author and entrepreneur, and together they&#8217;ve come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Rainbow</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/end-of-the-rainbow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We owe the Brits a great debt for gifting  us with the bombshell called Tracie Bennett. The slim actress/singer, who would appear from her photo to be a contemporarily coiffed blonde, has immersed herself into the psyche and spirit of Judy Garland in the play called End of the Rainbow which exposes us, in grim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Man, Two Guvnors</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/one-man-two-guvnors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Bean, prolific British playwright, has landed with a bang with this, his first export to American shores. A great success for two seasons at the National Theatre in London, a transfer to the West End, where it is now booked through the summer with a second cast, which means we get the first cast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Columnist</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/26/the-columnist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was certainly alive during the reign of Joseph Alsop as a syndicated political columnist, but the truth is he and his writings never attracted me, so I approached David Auburn&#8217;s play The Columnist with little background information and no particular interest.  Auburn is the author of the prize winning and hugely successful Proof, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Man</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/25/the-best-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interior of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway is decorated to the nines with bunting, campaign photos; hoopla music is playing over the speakers; the management wants you to know  from the get go that you will be attending the July 1960 Presidential convention in Philadelphia, and will be having a look at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Streetcar Named Desire</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/a-streetcar-named-desire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some controversy about the slowly growing trend of presenting plays with characters originally conceived as white being played by actors of color. The recent all black cast on Broadway of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  comes to mind and reminds us that critic John Lahr with a blog comment last December called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter and the Starcatcher</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/peter-and-the-starcatcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Disney-Hyperion published a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson with this title, and it climbed to the NewYork Times best seller list. Disney Theatrical Productions president Thomas Schumacher discovered it while it was still in galleys, and its development has been guided by that organization ever since. When its stage version was still an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clybourne Park</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/20/clybourne-park-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Norris, the author of Clybourne Park, must be Chicago&#8217;s best known secret, for it is in the Windy City that the Steppenwolf Theatre has premiered six of his previous plays, beginning in 2000. Clybourne Park was the first to reach here in 2010 with an Off Broadway run, and after spending a thrilling evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regrets</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/16/regrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Charman, playwright, is on the rise. His first play, A Night at the Dogs, which opened at the Soho Theatre in London, won the prestigious Verity Bargate Award for new writers. Richard Eyre directed his The Observer and he&#8217;s been produced at the National Theatre in London. He&#8217;s won awards in Britain, he&#8217;s currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evita is back on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/06/evita-is-back-on-broadway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber is returning with a vengeance. His Phantom of the Opera sizzles along in its 25th profitable year at the Majestic, his revived Jesus Christ Superstar set up shop at the Neil Simon on March 16, and the London transported revival of  Evita just opened at the Marquis, all on Broadway. Once upon a time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4,000 Miles</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/4000-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let the title of Amy Herzog&#8217;s play 4000 Miles put you off. My first impression after hearing it was  that it was probably another play about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan.  But no, happily it refers to the bicycle journey young Leo (Gabriel Ebert) has made in order to visit his grandmother Vera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This time they&#8217;ve got a title of show &#8211; Now. Here.This.</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/29/now-here-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a New York time before mine, there was something called &#8220;The Round Table&#8221; and it consisted of scalawags and wits who bonded between 1919 and 1929;  a group of bright wags who met daily for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel for nutritional sustenance and the sharing of commentary on the day.  (l-r) Hunter Bell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Iliad</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/an-illiad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it, on entering the New York Theatre Workshop to see Dennis O&#8217;Hare&#8217;s adaptation of Homer&#8217;s Iliad, I was unprepared.  All I remembered of my long ago quick read of a summary of the original was that it was an epic poem about the Trojan War. I had trouble remembering whether it was Athena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Yonkers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/lost-in-yonkers-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about the work of the Actors Company Theatre (TACT) before, and here I am again to report to you on Neil Simon&#8217;s Lost In Yonkers which is the company&#8217;s spring entry at the Beckett Theatre on 42nd Street&#8217;s Theatre Row.  This past autumn, they mounted A.R. Gurney&#8217;s Children and now they&#8217;ve found this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lady from Dubuque</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/20/the-lady-from-dubuque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Albee has a lot of explaining to do. In the lobby of the newly opened Pershing Square Signature Center way out west on 42nd Street, there is a wall devoted to photos and quotes from the life of this prize winning playwright.  They indicate his state of mind as his play The Lady From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rutherford and Son</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/13/rutherford-and-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Bank, the Producing Artistic Director of the tiny Mint Theatre in New York, has been offering us little remembered gems from the past for many seasons now. And he serves a dual purpose in doing so.  Not only does he mount these once popular hits with impeccable taste and style, he also gives us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie The Musical</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/12/carrie-the-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even the lower standards set for success in today&#8217;s musical theatre are hardly met by the currently reconceived revival of the musical Carrie.  It&#8217;s always a pleasure to welcome back to the New York stage the golden throated Marin Mazzie, and in the character of &#8220;Margaret White&#8221;, the demon mother from hell, she has found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ponies &amp; Rainbows, the Life of James Kirkwood</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/08/ponies-rainbows-the-life-of-james-kirkwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=33204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stepping out of my field just this once  in order to make you aware of Sean Egan&#8217;s new biography of playwright James Kirkwood. You may not recognize his name, but you know his works: co-author of A Chorus Line, U.T.B.U, Legends! and PS Your Cat Is Dead!, an adaptation of his novel of the same title. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/05/tribes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nina Raines&#8217; Tribes began life at the Royal Court in London, where it had rave reviews and numerous honors, including an Olivier Award nomination for Best Play. No wonder then that an American consortium of producers led by Jean Doumanian banded together to bring  it to us, and with the help of the founders of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seminar</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/06/seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/30/how-to-succeed-in-business-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31499</guid>
		<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>Stick Fly</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/17/stick-fly-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reviewing Stick Fly a couple of weeks after it opened on Broadway because when it was announced, I didn&#8217;t have much interest in seeing it. The title eluded me, I&#8217;d not heard of any in the cast, I didn&#8217;t know the author (Lydia R. Diamond) though she&#8217;s had exposure in a variety of regional [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31468</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/23/close-up-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31307</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31153</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=31149</guid>
		<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>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=30775</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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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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