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		<title>Summer at Nohant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are accustomed to seeing paired down black box productions at the Flashpoint venue, the well-crafted nineteenth century salon will be a pleasant surprise.]]></description>
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		<title>Gdirl from Gdansk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gdirl from Gdansk, the latest play from Ireland's Liam Heylin being given its world premiere here by Keegan Theatre, is an appealing work whose gentle charms gradually enfold the audience.]]></description>
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		<title>Talk Radio</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/16/talk-radio-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roman Gusso gives a bravura, take-no-prisoners performance as the tormented talk show host Barry Champlain in Stroyka Theatre's Talk Radio.]]></description>
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		<title>The Constellation</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/03/the-constellation-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[active cultures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gwydion Suilebhan's The Constellation is an unusual love story between two homeless people, and the love of a young man for the historic ship The U.S.S. Constellation.]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Collection</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/03/permanent-collection-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Gibbons' Permanent Collection is an intelligent and provocative work that will leave the audience thinking long after they have left the theatre.]]></description>
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		<title>Constant State of Panic</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/01/20/constant-state-of-panic-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone frequently amused by alarmist TV news teasers  like “Could your drinking water be polluted?  Details at eleven!”.  So I was intrigued by the concept underlying Constant State of Panic, Madcap Players’ world premiere of  Patrick Gabridge&#8217;s play. The impact of our current climate of fear on a psychologically fragile man and his loving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy Queerest</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/25/mommie-queerest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Gold's solo show Mommie Queerest is a wonderful juxtaposition of the mundane, the unusual, and the occasionally outrageous.]]></description>
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		<title>The Prisoner of Zenda</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/15/the-prisoner-of-zenda-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ambitious young company at 1st Stage has had a run of successful productions, but the law of inevitability may have caught up with them with this production of the classic swashbuckler The Prisoner of Zenda. Sorry to report it is only average as a result of a flawed script and an overly melodramatic style.
Rudolph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/09/teddy-roosevelt-and-the-ghostly-mistletoe-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of Washington's favorite actors inhabit this Tom Isbell Christmas concoction, with songs written by the witty Mark Russell. ]]></description>
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		<title>Annie</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/02/annie-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cynic might say the musical Annie is family theatre cooked up by recipe. Start with a plucky young girl looking for love and family, add orphans, mix in cartoonish villains, stir with a rich businessman, marinate repeatedly with a memorable song, sprinkle in just enough historical humor for the parents, and serve with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camelot</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/27/camelot-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olney Theatre's Camelot is a must-see holiday musical that brings back this living invocation of the great things we once believed we would do, and the honor-drenched lives we once believed we would live.]]></description>
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		<title>Disco Pigs</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/18/disco-pigs-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disco Pigs, straight from its NY triumph, opens the Irish Solas Nua theatre company's sixth season with the Enda Walsh comedy.]]></description>
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		<title>Barrio Grrrl!</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/28/barrio-grrrl-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of Barrio Grrrl!, the charming new children’s musical making its world premiere at the Kennedy Center,  as the little sister to Broadway’s In the Heights, since it comes from the same creative team that wrote the Tony Award® winning musical.  Quiara Alegría Hudes once again sets this story in a lower class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/07/strange-bedfellows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, the Washington Stage Guild doing a successful production of Shaw is as close to a sure bet as the local theatre scene offers.  Happily, the company’s latest production of two one-acts collectively titled Strange Bedfellows continues their winning streak.
The Washington Stage Guild has combined Press Cuttings, a play that imagines a violent battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Picture of Dorian Gray</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/18/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/18/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[round house]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know about The Picture of Dorian Gray, at least in broad outline. After having his portrait painted, a man goes through life without aging, remaining as healthy and vigorous as the day he was painted. His portrait, however, takes on the characteristics not only of the advancing years but of the moral and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Game of Love and Chance</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/15/the-game-of-love-and-chance-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an enjoyable trip to the theatre, The Game of Love and Chance is a delightful option.  1st Stage opens its season with a charming and energetic production of the classic farce.
Silvia (Beth Rothschild) is about to be introduced to Dorante (Jacob Yeh) for a possible arranged marriage.  The refined Silvia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>700 Sundays</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/11/700-sundays-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Billy Crystal perform 700 Sundays at the National Theatre is almost enough to make you quit telling stories of family and growing up.  Crystal’s stories are so memorable, heartwarming, and funny that anyone else’s stories pale by comparison.
Crystal has resurrected his Tony Award® winning one-man show and the Washington area is fortunate to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/01/the-musical-of-musicals-the-musical-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/01/the-musical-of-musicals-the-musical-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[metrostage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Musical theatre lovers will be thrilled to know that The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is back and better than ever.  MetroStage has chosen to revive their hit 2007 production to kick off its 25th season, and Washington audiences get one more chance to experience its pure satirical fun.
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite new plays debuted this season</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/08/20/favorite-new-plays-debuted-this-season/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/08/20/favorite-new-plays-debuted-this-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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-  This is one of a 3 part series in which our writers look back on the 2008-2009 season, leading up to your chance to vote for best plays and performances in this year&#8217;s Audience Choice Awards. -
I enjoy a good production of a play by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, or Tennessee Williams as much as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Blonde</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/08/19/dirty-blonde-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an era of overnight celebrities and reality stars, it is intriguing to revisit the story of a true American icon like Mae West.  Claudia Shear’s Dirty Blonde tells the story of how Mae West created her identity and how it affects a pair of ardent fans.  It’s a revealing, funny, and surprisingly touching story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead City</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/21/dead-city-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A complex middle-aged protagonist, deadened by experiences and compromises, engages in an eventful day of episodic wandering in a major city.  Sheila Callaghan&#8217;s Dead City, a modern riff on James Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;Ulysses&#8221; is a witty piece that succeeds as a satirical adventure and a moving character study.
For you Ulysses fans, the story&#8217;s main character is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Stars</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/18/barack-stars-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/18/barack-stars-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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For a comic, the big question is &#8220;How do you make fun of Barack Obama?&#8221;. Barack Stars, The Second City&#8217;s new revue now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre,  answers that question and more with an hilarious evening of biting wit sure to please anyone with a functioning funny bone.
As serious fans of comedy know, Chicago&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Dreams and Self Control</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/17/sex-dreams-and-self-control/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/17/sex-dreams-and-self-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steven rates it: 
While the publicity for Sex, Dreams and Self Control seems to promote a loud, wild show, what&#8217;s interesting about Kevin Thornton&#8217;s memoir of sexual self-discovery is how poignant and even gentle the show is.  Although Thornton&#8217;s story is frequently graphic and profane, the humor is understated and his original music is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Love, Goodbye Joy, Hello Travis McElroy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/16/goodbye-love-goodbye-joy-hello-travis-mcelroy/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/16/goodbye-love-goodbye-joy-hello-travis-mcelroy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steve rates it: 
Goodbye Love, Goodbye Joy, Hello Travis McElroy is an uneven mix of relationship comedy and Hollywood satire.  The laughs make attending worthwhile, but problems in tone and a sudden and unsatisfying ending may have you longing for a rewrite.
Linda (Megan Dominy), a sweet young woman who works in a dermatologist&#8217;s office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tempest: A Musical</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/14/the-tempest-a-musical/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/14/the-tempest-a-musical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steven rates it: 
The Tempest is another fine performance of a classical work from the accomplished company The Rude Mechanicals.  The incorporation of Celtic music only adds to pleasure of the piece.
Michael Galizia has the powerful stage presence to make an ideal Prospero, magician and centerpiece of this Shakespearean tale.  He gives emotional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Bloomers and Glory Days</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/12/late-bloomers-and-glory-days/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/12/late-bloomers-and-glory-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steve rates it:
A work about a 15-year high school reunion sounds like a writing class assignment from hell.  How can you tackle it without falling into cliché?  Yet the combination of a sensitive script by Allyson Currin and a fine ensemble performance make Late Bloomers and Glory Days an enjoyable dramatic offering.
Fifteen years ago, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fictitious: the Musical</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/12/fictitious-the-musical/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/12/fictitious-the-musical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steve rates it: 
FICTITIOUS The Musical is NOT about Arnold Schwarzenegger (to quote the show&#8217;s disclaimer announcement, &#8220;Yeah, right&#8221;).  It&#8217;s about Hugh Diffindorfer, who emigrates from &#8220;Nonexziistia&#8221; to become the world&#8217;s best bodybuilder, the world&#8217;s top action movie star, and the leader of the free world.  While this idea sounds ideal for a satirical musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargain Basement Game Show</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/11/bargain-basement-game-show/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/11/bargain-basement-game-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steven rated it:
If you have the courage to admit &#8220;I&#8217;m [state your name] and I am a game show addict&#8221; then The Bargain Basement Game Show will be a fun show for you.  It&#8217;s like playing Trivial Pursuit® at a friend&#8217;s house, only with comedic skits and nice prizes (despite the recurring jokes about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Authors Held Hostage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/11/irish-authors-held-hostage/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/11/irish-authors-held-hostage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steven rates it:
In Irish Authors Held Hostage, Irish writers from throughout history have been kidnapped by terrorists and  the outcome is invariably bad for the terrorists but great for the audiences viewing this clever work of inspired silliness.
Irish Authors Held Hostage involves eleven variations on the idea of terrorists taking authors hostage.   The terrorist get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of General Arthur</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/09/the-rise-of-general-arthur/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/09/the-rise-of-general-arthur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>

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Steven rates it: 

The Rise of General Arthur&#8221; might be more appropriatly titled  &#8220;The Coming of Age of Lance- Corporal Pellinore.&#8221;
Author/performer Phillip Low adapts some classic Arthurian literature about the young Pellinore (future knight of King Arthur&#8217;s Round Table) and time-shifts him to the first Iraq War (Desert Storm), where we learn of his departure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainpeople</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/05/brainpeople/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/05/brainpeople/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wealthy woman invites two strangers to her home for an unusual meal. We are in a postapocalyptic world of  sirens, curfews, roadblocks, private security militias, and omninous police sweeps.  The chaos outside is in surreal contrast to the fancy dining room within and its elegant hostess, Mayannah (Regina Aquino).
Mayannah&#8217;s guests were chosen because each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source 10 Minute Plays &#8211; Groups A &amp; B</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/28/source-10-minute-plays-groups-a-b/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/28/source-10-minute-plays-groups-a-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much play can you fit into ten minutes?  More than you think.  Source Festival 2009 opens with three groups of shorts, before expanding to one act and full length plays. 
Reviewed by Steve McKnight
Group A:
THE CRAVING
by David L. Williams and directed by Mitchell Hébert
The Craving, one of two standouts from Group A, features a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seagull on 16th Street</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/25/the-seagull-on-16th-street-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/25/the-seagull-on-16th-street-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes chutzpah to write new dialogue for Chekhov&#8217;s classic The Seagull and to insert Russian Jewish themes that didn&#8217;t exist in the original.  While the setting and basic plot remain the same, Theater J&#8217;s The Seagull on 16th Street adds dramatic conflicts over the extent to which several characters, reimagined as Jewish, will cling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincolnesque</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/10/lincolnesque-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/10/lincolnesque-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A delusional janitor, believing he is Abraham Lincoln, helps write speeches that inspire a political campaign.  In lesser hands, this premise would run sitcom thin.  Yet the talented playwright John Strand takes the story in unexpected directions, creating a pleasing political fantasy that touches the heart and the funny bone.
Leo (Michael Innocenti) is a sympathetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyrano de Bergerac</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/10/cyrano-de-bergerac-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/10/cyrano-de-bergerac-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, the success of Cyrano de Bergerac depends upon the perfomance of the actor playing the French swordsman with the heart of a poet and the prodigious proboscis.  Yet in the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company&#8217;s quality outdoor staging of the classic work, it&#8217;s the rest of the 40 member cast that supplies the panache which makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Golf</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/28/radio-golf-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/28/radio-golf-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can African Americans achieve success in a country where they still are a minority in numbers and wealth?  That&#8217;s the intriguing issue posed by Radio Golf, the last play in August Wilson&#8217;s twentieth century cycle.  Its local premiere receives an outstanding production at Studio Theatre -  superbly acted and consistently entertaining even if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman and Scarecrow</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/12/woman-and-scarecrow-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/12/woman-and-scarecrow-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman on her deathbed faces the regrets of a half-lived life and her imminent departure from a philandering husband and eight children.  Irish playwright Marina Carr tackles this setup in Solas Nua&#8217;s production of Woman and Scarecrow and produces a fierce and funny masterpiece, which also serves as an ideal vehicle for an unforgettable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/22/the-rise-and-fall-of-annie-hall-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/22/the-rise-and-fall-of-annie-hall-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Blume (Josh Lefkowitz) worships at the altar of Woody Allen, eats anti-anxiety drugs (without effect), writes about paranoia and anti-Semitism to an audience of zero, and lives off the largesse of his furniture-selling parents. He is about to blunder into the funniest play I have seen in DC this year, Theater J&#8217;s The Rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Craft Warnings</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/20/small-craft-warnings-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/20/small-craft-warnings-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draw up a chair at Monk&#8217;s Place and have yourself a cold glass of Tennessee Williams. Believe me when I tell you that this is not a bar where you will want everyone to know your name. Small Craft Warnings is a story about lonely losers at a seedy seaside bar; a character study of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call of the Wild</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/15/call-of-the-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/15/call-of-the-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely do two acts differ so much in content and quality as in the new musical Call of the Wild at Olney Theatre Center.  After a difficult and challenging first act, the work is redeemed by a terrific second.
The first act is based on Jack London&#8217;s novel  &#8220;Call of the Wild.&#8221;  His human hero, Weedon [...]]]></description>
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