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		<title>The Gaming Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new prologue written by David Grimm for Susanna Centlivre’s The Gaming Table, Tonya Beckman Ross promises verbal virtuosity and laughs.  It is a promise that is kept in spades by Folger Theatre’s sparkling and witty production of this Restoration era comedy.  (l-r) Katie deBuys, Michael Milligan, Tonya Beckman Ross, and Robbie Gay (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Irish Carol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/09/an-irish-carol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew J. Keenan’s new play, An Irish Carol just opened at Keegan Theatre, has a gritty realism that is unmatched among the holiday fare now playing in the DC area; it&#8217;s as bracing as a shot of Bushmills, but not necessarily pleasing to those seeking something a bit milder.  (l-r) Kevin Adams and Mike Kozemchak (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Dolittle</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/06/dr-dolittle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagination Stage’s new musical production of Dr. Dolittle combines two stories, the traditional Dr. Dolittle tale and the story of its origins in letters written home by Hugh Lofting while away at war.  While the approach may initially puzzle the youngest children, the two stories cleverly blend to support common themes about the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beertown</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/15/beertown-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dog and pony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an experiment in audience participatory theatre, dog &#38; pony dc’s Beertown is an interesting and memorable adventure.  As part of the civic adventure, audience members are encouraged to arrive as early as 7:00 PM and bring desserts for communal sharing.  It is a fun opportunity to mingle with the cast members, all of whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venus in Fur opens on Broadway to strong reviews</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/09/venus-in-fur-opens-on-broadway-to-strong-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Ives&#8217; Venus in Fur, which had an acclaimed and multi-extended run at Studio Theatre earlier this year, opened on Broadway last night to strongly favorable critical response. Most of the reviewers’ attention focuses on the performance of Nina Arianda, who reprises her off-Broadway performance originating the role of aspiring actress Vanda.  Vanda turns the tables on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The How and the Why</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A central question for any two character play is whether the playwright can keep the audience interested.  Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why succeeds through an intelligent blend of personal, political, and intellectual conflicts in an absorbing  new production at 1st Stage. Nora Achrati (left) as Rachel Hardiman Elizabeth Pierotti as Zelda Kahn (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/19/the-amazing-adventures-of-dr-wonderful-and-her-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If family theatre ratings, like Olympic diving, included a degree of difficulty factor, the Kennedy Center premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog!  would earn a very high score.  It’s not easy to tackle the scientific method and solar fusion in a musical for children ages six and up.  Yet, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savage in Limbo</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/15/savage-in-limbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrostage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while all of the stars align to create a magical theatre event like MetroStage’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo.  The script, the cast, the direction, the performances, and the venue are all so perfectly in tune that the production inspires nothing but praise.   (l-r) Michael Kevin Darnall as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Dress for Dinner</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/13/dont-dress-for-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a crowd pleaser to open your theatre’s season, a fine farce like Don’t Dress for Dinner is an excellent choice.  1st Stage launches its new year with an enjoyable production of a famous French classic work from the late Marc Camoletti, best known as the author of the recent successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at last season&#8217;s new works</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/08/15/a-look-at-last-seasons-new-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Choice Awards 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the Audience Choice Awards nominations being announced soon, it is a good time to consider and honor my favorite contemporary plays which debuted in the Washington area during the 2010-2011 season just ended.  While I enjoy fine productions of Shakespeare, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams and the other great playwrights, new works are important for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squirrel, or The Origin of a Species</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/15/squirrel-or-the-origin-of-a-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital fringe 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abbott &#38; Costello.  Martin &#38; Lewis.  Now, add to the list of great comedy teams “Darwin and Squirrel.”  That’s Darwin as in Charles Darwin, the nineteenth century father of evolutionary theory, and Squirrel as in an American grey squirrel.  Squirrel, or The Original of a Species is an original new work from the imaginative pen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destination? Slammer!</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/12/destination-slammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few people have led lives interesting enough to describe in detail to others (as proven by the experience of countless cocktail parties).  Fortunately for Fringegoers, Geraldine Buckley is one of those rare exceptions.  Better yet, she tells her story in an entertaining manner in Destination?  Slammer! Ms. Buckley is an experienced storyteller and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incurable</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/12/incurable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever had toe fungus, Dale’s plight will put your problem in perspective.  His private parts are infested by . . . well, let’s just call it another form of life.  To tell you any more would ruin the fun of the delightful Incurable by Seamus Sullivan. (Photo: Ryan Maxwell) Any man will feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandora: A Tragicomic Greek Romp</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/11/pandora-a-tragicomic-greek-romp/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/11/pandora-a-tragicomic-greek-romp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandora: A Tragicomic Greek Romp features Pandora, the Greek gods&#8217; gift to mankind and Nikodemos, a prolific but not always successful inventor in ancient Greece.  What a shame that he never got around to inventing scissors or an editor’s blue pencil because a funny premise is weakened by the length and repetitiveness of the script. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flyboy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/09/flyboy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The synchronicity of Flyboy, the story of an astronaut competing for the most challenging space mission ever, premiering on the same day as the final Space Shuttle flight takes off seems oddly appropriate.  This intelligent, absorbing drama points out the sacrifices made by our astronauts and their families while raising issues about what might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Killed Captain Kirk?</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/09/who-killed-captain-kirk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Star Trek fans gather at a convention billed as the last public appearance of William Shatner.  When Shatner’s dead body is found (offstage, at his hotel), the story turns into an interactive murder mystery.   That’s the story of Who Killed Captain Kirk?, a mildly diverting comedy from Paco José Madden. As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shall I Compare Thee to a Purple Haze? The Lost Rock Sonnets of William Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/08/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-purple-haze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Fringe experiments sound promising, but don’t live up to their promise.  A case in point: Shall I Compare Thee to a Purple Haze? The Lost Rock Sonnets of William Shakespeare. The premise is that some lost sonnets of Shakespeare have been found which amazingly resemble pop and rock songs of recent years.  It’s a cute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectivoyage:  The Mann Bobb McCauley Experience</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/24/perspectivoyage-the-mann-bobb-mccauley-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Source Festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perspectivoyage apparently derives its name from the voyage taken by the audience in experiencing different perspectives from the underlying events.  This pairing of visual artist Matthew Mann and choreographer Lucy Bowen McCauley with actor Dave Bobb is an interesting idea, but not entirely successful in execution. The events differ with the perspective of two characters  - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collapsing Silence</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/24/collapsing-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What forces could silence a person, a community, or even a civilization? Collapsing Silence is a Source Festival artistic blind date between visual artist David Carlson, composer John Moletress and choreographer Ilana Faye Silverstein. It&#8217;s a successful collabroation that is both visually and conceptually interesting. Ilana Faye Silverstein (Photo: C. Stanley Photography) Collapsing Silence consists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of a Modern Folk Hero</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/21/the-making-of-a-modern-folk-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 source festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most stories about a hero involve super powers, but The Making of a Modern Folk Hero features a would-be champion armed with little more than a ridiculous costume and righteous indignation. As unlikely as that may seem, both the hero and this play at the Source Festival achieve major success. Bradley Smith as Renzo (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source Festival: Lost and Found</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/21/source-festival-lost-and-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 source festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[an evening of 10 minute plays The theme offered to playwrights in this category is finding yourself or a long lost love.  These plays ask what you are seeking, but also what you might be willing to lose in the process. Principles of Dramatic Writing By Steve Moulds Directed by Andrew Hawkins Zoe (Carina Czipoth) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source Festival: Heroes and Villains</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/19/source-festival-heroes-and-villains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[an evening of 10 minute plays The theme offered to playwrights in this category is “The good, bad and ugly” thus, these plays are meant to “explore humanity’s best and worst players.” Executive Order 10450 By Hal Corley Directed by Ryan S. Taylor In this play a son (Eric Humphries) confronts his father (T. Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source Festival: Lovers &amp; Friends</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/14/source-festival-lovers-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Source Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year the Source Festival provided three different themes for the over 500 entries in its 10-Minute Play competition.  The Festival chose to highlight the group of six plays in its “Lovers &#38; Friends” category for the official opening night.  These are plays that “take a closer look at the complexities we all face in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/09/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keegan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s tough being a kid, and the pay is very low. You may have forgotten how it was to bear the sodden weight of your parents’ expectations while coping with the assault of the raging hormones, but book-writer Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn, who composed a witty upbeat score, did not, and neither has Keegan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyrano</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/04/cyrano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cyrano is one of the great male leading roles.  Yet the dominant character in the Folger Theatre production of Edmond Rostand&#8217;s classic tragic swashbuckler is not Cyrano De Bergerac, but the world premiere adaptation itself, translated by Michael Hollinger (Opus, Red Herring) and co-adapted by Hollinger and director Aaron Posner.  This version of Cyrano de Bergerac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clockmaker</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/04/the-clockmaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 14:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hub]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It takes a real master to successfully blend comedy, romance, crime drama, and metaphysical mystery into a single play.  Fortunately, talented Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte is just such a master and his gem of a play, The Clockmaker, receives an equally skillful DC area premiere at The Hub Theatre. Helen Pafumi and Tom Story (Photo: John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glass Menagerie</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/04/06/the-glass-menagerie-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival has closed, but 1st Stage&#8217;s sensitive and skilled rendition of The Glass Menagerie allows us to revel in the talent of the great Tennessee Williams once again. Lucas Beck as Tom and Elizabeth Pierotti as Amanda (Photo courtesy of 1st Stage) The Glass Menagerie was William&#8217;s first great play and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photograph 51</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/31/photograph-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater j]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Theater J’s recently announced 2011-2012 season,“Brilliant Fictions/Shattering Facts”, could also apply to its current production of Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler’s fascinating drama of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s role in the race to decipher the DNA molecule, an accomlishment that made James Watson &#38; Francis Crick household names. Elizabeth Rich (Photo: Stan Barouh) Franklin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Days</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/23/happy-days-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toby's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The musical Happy Days is a well-designed crowd pleaser for fans of the popular sitcom that ended its run over a quarter of a century ago.  If you enjoyed the television show, you will appreciate the chance  to revisit the Cunninghams, Fonzie, and friends in an entertaining production at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perseus Bayou</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/02/09/perseus-bayou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perseus Bayou is making a welcome return to the DC area after an eight year absence.  Now an entirely new generation of children can enjoy the charms of this creative family musical playing at Imagination Stage. The oddly compelling title is the result of adapting the Greek Perseus myth to post-Civil War Cajun country.  To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a Heavyweight</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/01/25/requiem-for-a-heavyweight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heritage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among all of the sports, boxing consistently produces the most gripping stories. Rod Serling’s portrayal of one battered gladiator of the ring, Requiem for a Heavyweight, was originally written for live production on “Playhouse 90” in 1956 and became one of the most acclaimed works of the era.  If you see the superlative production by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shadow of Honor</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/01/19/a-shadow-of-honor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keegan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Coy’s new play A Shadow of Honor strives to explore the impact of the stresses of war both directly on its participants and indirectly on their loved ones.   He portrays two families living a century apart, inhabiting the same home in Nelson County, Virginia.  It is an intriguing idea, but one that only has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mousetrap</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/15/the-mousetrap-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can an Agatha Christie mystery still be interesting if you already know who did it?  Thanks to a talented cast and a polished production from 1st Stage, the answer is a solid “Yes.” Suzanne Richard as Mrs. Boyle (foreground), Karl Bittner as Christopher Wren and John Stange and Jennifer Weinreich as Giles and Mollie Ralston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cirque Dreams Holidaze spectacle comes to the Kennedy Center</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/30/cirque-dreams-holidaze-spectacle-comes-to-the-kennedy-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Goldberg, founder and artistic director of Cirque Productions, takes pride in the fact that reviews of his many Cirque Dreams shows usually mention the word “spectacle.”  He promises the same grandeur when Cirque Dream Holidaze debuts in the DC area with an eight-show run at the Kennedy Center next week. Photo courtesy of Cirque [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seafarer</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/17/the-seafarer-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotidian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Seafarer makes an interesting addition to the traditional holiday fare that theatres are offering.  Quotidian Theatre Company’s latest production is a story of sin and redemption set in an Irish home on Christmas Eve.  Despite a slow start, the play eventually evolves into a compelling story of salvation. John Decker as Sharky and Andy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cavers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/10/cavers-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Fringe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nu sass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gertie Stovall is a middle-aged woman who lives alone in a dilapidated farmhouse that is on the verge of foreclosure.  She’s a spunky free spirit who is beloved in the community despite her propensity to threaten trespassers with a nonfunctional rifle. When she discovers a massive cave under the property, she believes that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Step</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/10/one-small-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few stories can inspire wonder as does the dawn of the Space Age, where in a dozen years we went from launching the first satellite to having men walk on the Moon.  This wonder is faithfully revisited in One Small Step, by the U.K. theatre company Oxford Playhouse which made a too brief stop at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Fringe debuts fallFringe</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/05/capital-fringe-debuts-fallfringe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Capital Fringe Festival’s fallFRINGE (Nov. 4 &#8211; 21) presents the return of ten shows from this summer’s 2010 Capital Fringe Festival.  Over the next three weeks, there will be 54 shows on Wednesdays through Sundays at the Shop at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Avenue NW. If you still have last summer&#39;s Fringe button, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Stuart</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/04/mary-stuart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washington shakespeare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few dramatic works illustrate the twisted and self-serving aspects of politics in as entertaining a fashion as Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart.  Mary Stuart is an inspired choice for a time of elections and governmental transition, and it receives an inspired production from the Washington Shakespeare Company. The story opens with Mary, former Queen of Scotland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/27/holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hard-working corporate lawyer Johnny Case wants to use an eminent business score to “retire early and work late” so he can experience life.  This plan is a surprise to his heiress fiancée, a delight to her rebellious sister, and an anathema to her wealthy banker father.  Such is the plot behind Philip Barry’s Holiday, a [...]]]></description>
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