Show Locations — DC Theatre Scene

The Best of Friends

April 25, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

What did an eminent museum curator, a Dominican Abbess, and George Bernard Shaw have to say to each other? Plenty! The Best of Friends gives us Shaw himself, largely in his own words, along with two extraordinary figures from the early 20th century. [Read more...]

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Burn Your Bookes

April 25, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

Notorious English alchemist Edward Kelley pursues the elusive Philosopher’s Stone through sex (wife swapping), drugs (gold elixir), and a baroque’n'roll lifestyle of back stabbing, espionage, poetry and proto-science. [Read more...]

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The Red Balloon

April 25, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

In this simple tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own. Wandering through the streets of Paris, the two become inseparable, the beguiling pair draws inquisitive looks from adults and the envy of other school children as they wander the streets of Paris. [Read more...]

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Rifar el Corazon / Heartstrings

April 25, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

Two sisters meet in a poignant farewell. Under the guise of humor and tenderness we also see joy, sorrow, cattiness, dreams, hopes and hopes dashed… and the fond memories Life gives us during moments of happiness. [Read more...]

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In the Goldfish Bowl

April 25, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

As their futures tick away, four women on a Texas Death Unit confront their pasts, their fears, and each other, all the while under the “electronic eye” of Correctional Supervisor Rowena Way who simultaneously maintains tight security over each and every plastic fork. [Read more...]

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The Old Settler

April 16, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

Three women. One man. With odds like this, a man better have his wits about him. [Read more...]

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Triumph of Love

April 16, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

What do you do when the man you adore wants to kill you? You seduce him, disguised as a man impersonating another woman, while fending off the affections of both his uncle and his aunt, of course! [Read more...]

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The Dancing Princesses

April 16, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

Set in the Roaring ‘20’s, the show is a new musical take on the old Grimm’s tale. After the death of his beloved Queen, a grief-stricken King banishes dance from all the land, much to the distress of his people, including his two daughters, Lara and Lena. But the girls find their way to a magical world where jazz music, the Charleston and their mother’s indomitable spirit are alive and well. [Read more...]

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The House with Two Doors

April 16, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

A beautiful runaway and a mysterious foreigner chance to meet by night in the streets of Naples, transforming a cloak-and-dagger intrigue into a Renaissance bedroom farce complete with masks, swordplay, mistaken identity, and laughs for the whole family. [Read more...]

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60 Miles to Silver Lake

April 16, 2010 By Alex Murphy Leave a Comment

60 Miles to Silver Lake bends time and space as a boy and his father traverse damage of a rough divorce and growing older. Set entirely in the front seat of a used car, the men are glued to the pleather and seatbelted in tightly as they speed down a California freeway toward territory both familiar and strange. [Read more...]

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