All posts by Tom Ramstack:

Tom Ramstack is a career journalist who has covered Washington in all its splendor and agony for more than 20 years as a reporter for The Washington Times and industry newsletters. His credits covering the arts and drama include having been a regular contributor to America Online's City's Best entertainment news site. He also is a published news photographer.

Table 8

Table 8 is the place no one would want to sit in the fictional restaurant dramatized in Haley Brown’s play at the Redrum theater at Fort Fringe. [Read more...]

How to Write a Magic Show

Francis Menotti and Ran’D Shine brought their impressive array of magic tricks and the somewhat less successful comedic plot to The Bedroom at Fort Fringe this weekend. [Read more...]

The Road to Nowhere

John Hefner takes his audience on a coast-to-coast highway adventure bound for … well, nowhere in his one-man performance of  The Road to Nowhere. [Read more...]

Xanadu

Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton John, bombed as a movie in 1980. It even won a Razzie Award as one of the worst films Hollywood produced that year. Its fortunes turned upward when Jeff Lynne, John Farrar and Douglas Carter Beane reconstituted it for Broadway, where it won four top Tony Award musical nominations.

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