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		<title>Naoko Maeshiba, dancing on the edge of theatre</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/24/naoko-maeshiba-dancing-on-the-edge-of-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dancer/Choreographer/Director Naoko Maeshiba, at least to me, was one of Baltimore’s hidden artistic treasures until I had the chance to see  in 2009. Her journey began in Japan, where she was born and trained, before she headed to Hawaii, DC, and, ultimately, Charm City, where she is now in the Department of Theatre Arts at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracie Bennett Sings Judy Garland</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/24/tracie-bennett-sings-judy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Songs from End of the Rainbow and other Garland classics This isn&#8217;t exactly a cast recording of a show&#8217;s score, but it may be of interest in the days before the Tony Awards are announced on June 10. One of the nominees for &#8220;Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Play&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three zombie Sisters at Bell Foundry in Baltimore this weekend</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/18/three-zombie-sisters-at-bell-foundry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ACME theatre, which I’ve done a brief piece on, will be going up with a new version of the Three Sisters this weekend. But don’t expect mustached colonels in late 19th century Russian military attire. The director is Yury Urnov, currently based in Baltimore and now in his third year as our local Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chesapeake Shakespeare expands to Baltimore&#8217;s Inner Harbor</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/17/chesapeake-shakespeare-expands-to-baltimores-inner-harbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chesapeake shakespeare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On May 7th, the Baltimore theatre world received some good news:  the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, currently located in Howard County, announced its purchase of the downtown Mercantile Safe Depost and Trust Building, a classically designed brownstone built in 1885. What was born as a bank, and transfomed as an afterhours spot for Baltimore party people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The impact of funding cuts on DC theaters</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/16/the-impact-of-funding-cuts-on-dc-theaters/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/16/the-impact-of-funding-cuts-on-dc-theaters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Bauman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been an exciting few weeks for us. For the second time in four years, a DC metro company has been honored with the coveted Regional Theater Tony Award, this time going to The Shakespeare Theatre Company, which in my opinion was long overdue. The Kennedy Center’s remarkable production of Follies garnered 8 Tony Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsies &#8211; Original Broadway Cast Recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/15/newsies-original-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Menken is on something of a roller coaster ride. He has just pulled off that exceedingly rare feat of having three musicals with his scores playing on Broadway at the same time and, what is more, all three were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. Still, it was a brief trifecta. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely, I&#8217;m Not</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/14/lonely-im-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>The many faces of Baltimore actor Bruce R. Nelson</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/10/the-many-faces-of-baltimore-actor-bruce-r-nelson/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/10/the-many-faces-of-baltimore-actor-bruce-r-nelson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve watched professional theatre in Baltimore, you’ve probably seen Bruce R. Nelson. But it may have taken you a little while to realize it. When I walked into the Boehmian Café in Baltimore’s Northern Arts district, I thought I’d missed him. But he was there, in the shadows, complete with a graying beard, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie &amp; Clyde &#8211; Original Broadway Cast Recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/08/bonnie-clyde-original-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/08/bonnie-clyde-original-broadway-cast-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In defense of Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn OK &#8211; Now you can be the judge. I think Frank Wildhorn and Don Black wrote a great score for Bonnie &#38; Clyde. Some of the most influential critics don&#8217;t. Listen and make up your own mind. The critics savaged it when the show opened last December and [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/07/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:19:12 +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[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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/03/once/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>Confessions of a one time Helen Hayes judge</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/confessions-of-a-one-time-helen-hayes-judge/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/confessions-of-a-one-time-helen-hayes-judge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Bauman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first moved to Washington, DC to accept a position as the Director of Marketing and Communications at Americans for the Arts, I applied to be a Helen Hayes Judge to help learn about my new home city and to remain connected to the theater world.  I served as a judge for two years—one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leap of Faith</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/leap-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/leap-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:52:28 +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[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>Once, Original Broadway Cast Recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/once-original-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/once-original-broadway-cast-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friends and many of my fellow critics/reviewers tell me that Once is a great show. Obviously, the Tony Award nominators agree, having included it in no less than eleven of the categories including Musical, Book for a Musical, Direction, Orchestrations, Choreography, Leading Actor in a Musical and Leading Actress in a Musical.  Not having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost The Musical</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/ghost-the-musical/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/ghost-the-musical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/end-of-the-rainbow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:08:29 +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[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>Kaddish, based on a Nobel winning novel, makes its world premiere in a tiny Baltimore space</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/kaddish-based-on-a-nobel-winning-novel-makes-its-world-premiere-in-a-tiny-baltimore-space/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/kaddish-based-on-a-nobel-winning-novel-makes-its-world-premiere-in-a-tiny-baltimore-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Director Barbara Lanciers was ready to premiere Kaddish, her version of Imre Kertesz’s novel &#8220;Kaddish for an Unborn Child&#8221; at the Baltimore Theatre Project. It’s a production she’s been waiting almost a decade to bring to the stage. And for herself and actor Jacob Goodman, it’s been a labor of love. There was only one thing missing: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Man, Two Guvnors</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/one-man-two-guvnors/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/one-man-two-guvnors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:44:23 +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[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>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/25/the-best-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:31:32 +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[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>Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert Staging</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/phantom-of-the-opera-25th-anniversary-concert-staging/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/phantom-of-the-opera-25th-anniversary-concert-staging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 25 Anniversary of what is now the longest running musical in Broadway history was celebrated last October with not just a concert, but a full staging of the entire show in London&#8217;s massive Royal Albert Hall with its seating of over 5,000. It was captured on audio and video discs, each or either of [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/peter-and-the-starcatcher/#comments</comments>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>Eve Muson on directing Lynn Nottage&#8217;s Las Meninas</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/18/eve-muson-on-directing-lynn-nottages-las-meninas/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/18/eve-muson-on-directing-lynn-nottages-las-meninas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rep stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How director/professor Eve Muson took a Nottage play from a college production to the professional stage I remember, somewhere at the tail end of the Regional II version of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2010, being led into the Towson University Theatre Center one more time. I’d already seen more plays in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is safe in the theater?</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/what-is-safe-in-the-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/what-is-safe-in-the-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Bauman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A week before I departed Arena Stage, some in the community were up in arms about the announced future seasons in our city’s regional houses spurred in part by Peter Marks’ story in the Washington Post titled “In new seasons, D.C. theater companies will present the extremely tried-and-true.” Soon charges of “playing it safe” were coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People in the Picture &#8211; Original Broadway Cast Recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/the-people-in-the-picture-original-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/the-people-in-the-picture-original-broadway-cast-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before the Tony race starts up in earnest for this year, lets take a look at one show from last year&#8217;s race that nearly got away. The People In The Picture was a klezmer-infused musical of the struggle of Jews in a Yiddish theater troupe to survive in Warsaw during the holocaust. It only ran for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regrets</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/16/regrets/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/16/regrets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:33:32 +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[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>Out Of My Dreams &#8211; Oscar Hammerstein II</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/10/out-of-my-dreams-oscar-hammerstein-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/10/out-of-my-dreams-oscar-hammerstein-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The search for a full understanding of the life and works of Oscar Hammerstein II might well begin with this twelve-song disc, but it certainly won&#8217;t end here. Indeed, the disk will serve only to whet an appetite, not satisfy it. Described as a &#8220;companion&#8221; to the PBS documentary of the same title, &#8220;Out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Juilliard and back again: Kelli Wright reinvents herself</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/09/to-juilliard-and-back-again-kelli-wright-reinvents-herself/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/09/to-juilliard-and-back-again-kelli-wright-reinvents-herself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I met Kelli Wright outside the Strand Theatre the day before the premier of Blood-bound and Tongue-tied. She had the lead role, Jocasta, a woman with a literal Oedipus Complex. But she had a more immediate problem. She had just locked herself out of her car. With the locksmith on the way, we sat down [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/06/evita-is-back-on-broadway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:22:32 +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[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>The business behind the show. Meet Chad Bauman, newest columnist for DCTS</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/05/the-business-behind-the-show-meet-chad-bauman-newest-columnist-for-dcts/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/05/the-business-behind-the-show-meet-chad-bauman-newest-columnist-for-dcts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UpClose]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that Chad Bauman, the Smithsonian Associate’s Director of Marketing and Membership, will be the latest addition to our writing staff . Readers will know him best as Arena Stage’s Director of Communication during its period of greatest expansion. His column &#8220;Consider This&#8221; will begin on Wednesday, April 17th.   Chad Bauman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (music from)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-music-from/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-music-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The surprise of the original cast album &#8220;Music from Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark&#8221; is that it is better than its show, which, as everyone even marginally aware of musical theater knows, is reported to be the most expensive Broadway musical ever. I do wish I could carry that line of reasoning along to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4,000 Miles</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/4000-miles/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/4000-miles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:40:50 +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[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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/29/now-here-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:40:46 +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[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>Cleopatra: The Ballet from Les Miserables composer</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/27/cleopatra-the-ballet-from-les-miserables-composer/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/27/cleopatra-the-ballet-from-les-miserables-composer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Had this two-disc set been listed as the music of an unknown John Smith or Bob Jones, I wouldn&#8217;t have asked for a copy to review for the readers of Theater Shelf. Ballet scores aren&#8217;t usually thought of as theater pieces but rather as classical music compositions which support storytelling through dance and design. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Iliad</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/an-illiad/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/an-illiad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:20:48 +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[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>A noted Hungarian theatre critic examines the nature of criticism</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/a-noted-hungarian-theatre-critic-examines-the-nature-of-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/a-noted-hungarian-theatre-critic-examines-the-nature-of-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Hungarian theatre artists are under siege, a leading critic speaks out A week ago, Andrea Tompa, President of the Hungarian Theatre Critics Association, came to Baltimore’s Center Stage to speak about the political pressures being placed on artists and writers in contemporary Hungary. Titled &#8216;The Dismantling of Hungarian Theatre&#8217;, this was the first event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Yonkers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/lost-in-yonkers-3/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/23/lost-in-yonkers-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/20/the-lady-from-dubuque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:36:14 +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[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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