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		<title>Phantom Revisited, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Temperamentals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Seff revisits Phantom of the Opera and The Temperamentals and reviews the new Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys]]></description>
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		<title>Next to Normal, Happy Now?, Present Laughter</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/05/next-to-normal-happy-now-present-laughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lorraine treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early spring of 2008 I caught the first New York production of  Next to Normal, off Broadway at Second Stage. I reviewed it favorably in this column.  Now, eight months into its run in a revised form, back on Broadway, I visited it again recently.
(l-r) Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, center, and J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis, Yank!, and Ages of the Moon</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/01/memphis-yank-and-ages-of-the-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a charter member of the “It’s too loud!” and the “Where are the melodies?” clubs of musical theatre lovers, I kept delaying my visit to Memphis, thinking it wouldn’t do much for me except perhaps remind me of the Golden Age of good sound and gorgeous tunes, and how much I miss all that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Night Music, Fanny, Mr. and Mrs. Fitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadway vet Richard Seff reviews A Little Night Music, Encore's Fanny, ad Mr. and Mrs. Fitch]]></description>
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		<title>Two triumphs: Time Stands Still and This</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/01/two-triumphs-time-stands-still-and-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadway vet Richard Seff declares Margolies' Time Stands Still "richly rewarding . a winner" and Gibson's This "a finely wrought play and production."]]></description>
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		<title>Starry Messenger, So Help Me God, Race and Ragtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lorraine treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Seff has the last word on Starry Messenger, So Help Me God!, Race and Ragtime.]]></description>
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		<title>Hamlet, Bye Bye Birdie and Girl Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Seff caught Hamlet at the end of the run, found much to like in the Encores' Girl Crazy and compares the original Birdie to the musical now running on Broadway.]]></description>
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		<title>Travels in Alabama and Claude Rains</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/07/travels-in-alabama-and-claude-rains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Seff leaves his Broadway beat to perform at a tribute to Claude Rains in Alabama.]]></description>
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		<title>Ruhl&#8217;s In the Next Room and Love Child</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/23/ruhls-in-the-next-room-and-love-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadway's Richard Seff take a look at the new Sara Ruhl play, and finds much to like in the 2 actor, 22 character Love Child.]]></description>
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		<title>Nightingale and Finian&#8217;s Rainbow</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/18/nightingale-and-finians-rainbow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Seff reviews Nightingale, Lynn Redgrave's monologue on her grandmother, and the astonishing, tuneful revival of Finian's Rainbow]]></description>
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		<title>The Understudy, Emperor Jones, and Brighton Beach Memoirs</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/11/the-understudy-emperor-jones-and-brighton-beach-memoirs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief reviews by Broadway's Richard Seff for the new Theresa Rebeck Understudy, O'Neill's classic and Simon's unfortunate one week Brighton Beach.]]></description>
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		<title>Superior Donuts, After Miss Julie and return to the Irvington Theater</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/29/superior-donuts-after-miss-julie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superior Donuts would seem to be playwright Tracy Letts’ Ah, Wilderness!  After showing us the seamy side of the human condition in Bug, Killer Joe and  August: Osage County, he’s dug back into the happy (or, as in O’Neill’s case, fictional) side of his past life to turn up this sweet play about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing Avi, the new Mary Poppins and God of Carnage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/21/inventing-avi-the-new-mary-poppins-and-god-of-carnage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new New York season has begun, where fall is spring, and buds are budding all over the place. In the tiny June Havoc Theatre, a saucy new comedy has arrived, a highly original concept for a play nicely executed by its co-authors, Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman. They’ve called it Inventing Avi and director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Watcher, Vigil and The Royal Family</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/14/the-night-watcher-vigil-and-the-royal-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blush to admit that I knew little about Charlayne Woodard before I caught a preview of her one-woman play The Night Watcher. Ms. Woodard has written several solo plays, starting with Pretty Fire, which the Manhattan Theatre Club presented several seasons back. Other works, many of them multiple prize winners, have been seen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Side Story, Mamet One Acts, Wishful Drinking</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/04/west-side-story-mamet-one-acts-wishful-drinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Laurents’ directing chops get keener as he ages. At 90, he gave us the Patty LuPone Gypsy that captured all the nuance in his script that improved upon the Jerome Robbins’ Ethel Merman success in which Ms. Merman gave the performance of her career. She deserved the accolades she received for that performance. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Life Worth Living? and Dames at Sea</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/14/is-life-worth-living-and-dames-at-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tiny Mint Theatre, on the 3rd floor of an office building on West   43rd Street, has done it again. Under the secure and firm hand of Jonathan Bank, it once again satisfies its mandate of bringing back to life buried treasures from the past, particularly those plays written from 1850-1950. Usually I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Richard Seff-Chita Rivera Show</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/08/18/the-richard-seff-chita-rivera-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Supporting Player and special guest play to a packed house
I haven’t been around for a while because NY theatre is between seasons and not a lot is happening. There will be a new beginning very soon, but meanwhile, I turned my attention to an offer to have an “event” at Barnes &#38; Noble at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Mermaid, The Temperamentals and Dinner</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/29/little-mermaid-the-temperamentals-and-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d been avoiding The Little Mermaid because ever since The Lion King I haven’t been happy with the Disney approach to Broadway, except in its marketing methods. Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, Aida to me seemed more suited to a World’s Fair arena, or maybe an aquacade or something called Tarzan On Ice. As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Godot, Accent on Youth and Knickerbocker Holiday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/05/waiting-for-godot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally caught up with the critically acclaimed Anthony Page staging of Samuel Beckett&#8217;s Waiting for Godot. Just as with Ionesco&#8217;s Exit the King earlier this season, a brilliant cast, a director with a clear vision, and voila!  We have us an amazing achievement &#8211; amazing, because as you know by now, nothing happens in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Fall, Dirty Blonde, Stunning and Everyday Rapture</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/15/next-fall-dirty-blonde-stunning-and-everyday-rapture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technically, New York&#8217;s new season begins on June 1, so mine began with a bang. I had no idea what to expect of Next Fall, a Naked Angels production at the small Peter Jay Sharp Theatre . I&#8217;d heard of Geoffrey Nauffts (the playwright) but only as an actor. The program told us this was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Turner&#8217;s Come and Gone, The Philanthropist and Theatre World Awards</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/08/joe-turners-come-and-gone-the-philanthropist-and-theatre-world-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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August Wilson accomplished miracles when he completed his 10 play cycle covering the African American experience over the 20th century. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in Wilson’s familiar boarding house in Pittsburgh 1911. Joe Turner won the New York Drama Critics’ Prize in 1988, the year of its original Broadway production. Several actors in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Singing Forest, 9 to 5 and Table Manners</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/27/the-singing-forest-9-to-5-and-table-manners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My week began with high hopes, for Olympia Dukakis is back on the boards and that&#8217;s always good news. Her play is The Singing Forest by Craig Lucas.  In support is 24 year old Jonathan Groff who made a splash in Spring Awakening and again in Hair last summer in Central  Park. Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophistry, Andrea Burns, Mary Stuart and Offices</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/11/sophistry-andrea-burns-mary-stuart-and-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Ark Stage&#8217;s Artistic Director Rhoda Herrick has seen fit to revive Jonathan Marc Sherman&#8217;s Sophistry at the Beckett Theatre in 42nd Street&#8217;s Theatre Row.  Originally mounted by Playwrights Horizons, this examination of college life in the early 90s has been hauled over the coals twice in 1993, playing 14 performances in March with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Norman Conquests and Desire Under the Elms</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/05/04/the-norman-conquests-and-desire-under-the-elms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to give you some background before I get to The Norman Conquests, currently in revival at the Circle in the Square, courtesy of the Old Vic Theatre Company in London. To do that, I ask you to return with me to 1974 when I divorced myself from the field of talent agents, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooms, Blithe Spirit and You Never Know</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/27/rooms-blithe-spirit-and-you-never-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New World Stages, in one of its many hidden black box theatres underground on West 50th Street, is offering Paul Scott Goodman&#8217;s and Miriam Gordon&#8217;s ROOMS a rock romance, in a version slightly altered and half re-cast since its premiere productions at MetroStage in Alexandria and Geva in Rochester. This is actually the two-character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit the King, Chasing Manet and 33 Variations</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/13/exit-the-king-chasing-manet-and-33-variations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Ionesco died in 1994, and left us the progeny of his Theatre of the Absurd in which he was a pioneer. He wrote some 28 plays, and is best remembered for The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chairs and Rhinoceros. His ode to dying, Exit the King, played 47 performances on Broadway in 1968 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising with Chita, Early to Bed and Happiness</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/01/cruising-with-chita-early-to-bed-and-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after debarking from Celebrity Cruise&#8217;s SS Solstice in Ft.  Lauderdale and flying back to NYC, I came down with the worst cold of my life and here I am, nine days later, still coughing and wheezing to beat the band. My doctor tells me I must grin and bear it for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd and Cabaret Girl</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/03/11/the-widowing-of-mrs-holroyd-and-cabaret-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York season traditionally divides itself into two halves; one that lasts through the Christmas holidays, and one that begins in February. The current season behaved itself,  despite the rest of the world breaking with all tradition and going quite mad on all fronts. So in mid-February we had The Story of my Life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story of My Life, Shipwrecked and Ruined</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/23/story-of-my-life-shipwrecked-and-ruined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Story of My Life - Broadway opened its doors to this little musical, giving it maximum exposure after its early days off Broadway in Canada and at the Goodspeed in Connecticut. That may have been a mistake. For I call it &#8220;little&#8221; in the sense that it has only two characters onstage, virtually no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedda Gabler, This Beautiful City, Music in the Air</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/17/hedda-gabler-this-beautiful-city-music-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Louise Parker is one of those luminous ladies who will have allure on a stage as long as she agrees to set foot on one. Movie cameras are not so friendly, and the radiant Ms. Parker has thus far graced many more small screens than large ones. Embroiled for the past few seasons in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Elliot, August: Osage County, The Third Story</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/04/billy-elliot-august-osage-country-the-third-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy Elliot, August: Osage County and The Third Story
by Richard Seff
Here we are into February and I&#8217;m just catching up on two of last year&#8217;s big winners. I&#8217;d seen Billy Elliot in London last April, but saved the New York production until it properly settled in for its long run on Broadway. I caught up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Plan and Leaves of Glass</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/01/27/the-american-play-and-leaves-of-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Plan and Leaves of Glass
by Richard Seff
Lynne Meadow and her Manhattan Theatre Club have been extremely loyal to playwright Richard Greenberg, mounting play after play of his, regardless of their merit. No question, Greenberg is a fine writer, as witness his Take Me Out and his current adaptation of John O;Hara&#8217;s book to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed-the-Plow, Any Day Now</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/01/23/speed-the-plow-any-day-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speed-the-Plow, Any Day Now
by Richard Seff
David Mamet speeds words at you as though they were coming straight from the mouth of an automatic rifle. I&#8217;ve never acted in one of his plays but even in my salad days I think I&#8217;d have been terrified to try. For it&#8217;s boom bang bing; it&#8217;s all manic music. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pal Joey</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/01/07/pal-joey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Seff
One of the more quoted critical quotes of the last century is Brooks Atkinson&#8217;s conclusion to his review of the original production the Rogers-Hart-O&#8217;Hara collaboration Pal Joey in 1940. The terminal sentence was: &#8220;Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?&#8221; Well, no, you can&#8217;t, but that&#8217;s just the point of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrek, Cripple of Inishmaan</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shrek, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and a visit to the Players Club 

by Richard Seff
As the curtain calls were taking place on Dec. 14, the night I saw Shrek, The Musical, I began to cogitate on what I&#8217;d liked most about the engaging musical I&#8217;d just seen. And it hit me at once: I&#8217;d just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Brando book earns high praise</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/12/new-brando-book-earns-high-praise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A review of the Marlon Brando bio &#8220;Somebody&#8221; by Stefan Kanfer
by Richard Seff
Once again veering slightly off the course of New York Theatre Buzz, I&#8217;d like to acquaint you with a new biography of Marlon Brando, titled &#8220;Somebody.&#8221; Alfred A. Knopf has just published it, it&#8217;s by Stefan Kanfer, who&#8217;s done great justice to Groucho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Christmas and Saturn Returns</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/09/white-christmas-and-saturn-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturn Returns, White Christmas and Speed-the-Plow cast at the Drama League Luncheon

by Richard Seff
Noah Haidle, the author of Saturn Returns at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, is new to me, but he&#8217;s been produced in many of the nation&#8217;s most prominent regional theatres,  [Ed. note: Haidle's Vigils was seen in DC at Woolly Mammoth.]and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Chance Harvey</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/28/last-chance-harvey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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by Richard Seff
Seff Goes to the Movies
I&#8217;ve always loved the movies, but this column is supposed to stick to the buzz about theatre.  Today I&#8217;m going to ask your indulgence because I was lucky enough to be invited to a premiere screening of Last Chance Harvey, and as that rarely happens to me, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forbidden Broadway and The Seagull</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/25/forbidden-broadway-and-the-seagull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Seff
Gerard Alessandrini, creator, writer and director of the Forbidden Broadway series of small revues designed to skewer the Broadway of its current season, has announced that the series will end.  The latest, called Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, will be the last. If this turns out to be true, it&#8217;s good to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Man for All Seasons and 13</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/11/a-man-for-all-seasons-and-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Man for All Seasons and 13: A New Musical
by Richard Seff
I came to the Roundabout&#8217;s revival of A Man for All Seasons late in its run, on November 5th. I was away when it opened on October 7th, and was only vaguely aware of its critical response, but my feeling was it had been [...]]]></description>
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