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Tim Treanor DCTS Senior Reviewer Since 2005, Tim has written almost 400 reviews and numerous news articles, features and interviews for DCTS. He has been a member of the American Theater Critics Association since 2009 and sits on its New Plays committee. He is also a fellow of the National Critics Institute, run by the O'Neill Theater Center. His interactive murder mystery, Murder in Elsinore, enjoyed a brief run in 2003. By day he is a trial lawyer for the Federal government. He lives with his dear bride, Lorraine, in a log house in the woods of Southern Maryland.

Xanadu

May 21, 2012 By 1 Comment

“It was a brave man,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “who first et an oyster.”

Douglas Carter Beane is a brave man, and for much the same reason. He took Xanadu, a 1980’s flop-o movie musical – the one which ended the brief movie-star career of Australian songbird Olivia Newton-John—and audaciously turned it into a play. A hit play. A big, freaking, Broadway-style hit play, that ran for a year and a half. [Read more...]

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The Bacchae

May 16, 2012 By 2 Comments

What would a religion which celebrated lust, music, dancing, and the drinking of wine be like? Hah! Need I even ask! The party would last until we were asked to leave the Eurozone, I suppose. Still – it would be hard to go. [Read more...]

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Studio announces its 2012-2013 megaseason

May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The return of Joy Zinoman directing a production of the Broadway hit 4,000 Miles will highlight a monster 12-production 2012-2013 season for Studio Theatre, the company announced this weekend. [Read more...]

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With its 20th season, Rep Stage time travels back to the 20th century

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Howard County’s Rep Stage will celebrate its 20th year by exploring the 20th century, manipulating time through a four-play season which takes us from somber ghost story to high-octane farce. [Read more...]

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Supremes give Hero zero

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Messina High Bench Knocks Out Alimony Award, but Returns Dowry; Declares Subpoena “Much Ado About Nothing”

The Supreme Court of Messina rarely hears a domestic relations case, but when it does, anything can happen. [Read more...]

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Shakespeare Theatre to receive the Regional Theatre Tony Award

May 1, 2012 By 1 Comment

Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, got some extra sparklers when The Tony Awards selected it to receive the 2012 Regional Theatre Award. [Read more...]

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The Big Meal

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Big Meal is the big deal: the moments in life that really matter – birth, love, and death – chopped up into digestible bits and soaked in a vinegar-ish marinade for eighty minutes or so. It is also the big feel, in that its only subject is what we feel in our hearts as we go through these things, and the big for real, in that it is about characters who are relentlessly ordinary, and have no special tools or challenges, except the ones most of us have. [Read more...]

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The 39 Steps

April 30, 2012 By 1 Comment

I am going to give you a summary of this astounding tour de farce, now playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab of the Olney Center for the Arts, and then recommend that you forget it immediately. [Read more...]

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Everyman’s next season includes the opening of their new downtown theatre

April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has announced a 2012-2013 season which will close down its 1727 North Charles Street venue with the memory of war, and then inaugurate its tenure at its new downtown Inner Harbor location on 315 West Fayette Street with a series of domestic dramas and comedies, full of strategy and explosiveness. [Read more...]

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Forum Theatre’s Ninth Season of fresh shows

April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Forum Theatre’s 2012-2013 season will consist of four plays so fresh that none of them were performed before 2010 and the world premiere which will open the season – Kara Lee Corthron’s Holly Down In Heaven – is only the second-newest piece. Natsu Onoda Power (Astro Boy and the god of comics) will close the season with a play which hasn’t even been written yet. [Read more...]

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