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		<title>The Music Man</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/25/the-music-man-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arena stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can tell, in the occasional serendipitous gesture, the brilliant telling smile, why this oddball musical, this syncopated torrent of Americana, was chosen over West Side Story by the Tony Award voters of 1958. Sondheim, Laurents, Bernstein et al, showed their brilliance with West Side Story, which became an American classic, but Meredith Willson showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tooth of Crime</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/24/the-tooth-of-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[WSC Avant Bard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the well-known Greek creation myth, the Titan Cronus desperately seeks to prevent the prophecy that one of his offspring will overthrow him, as he did to his own father, Uranus. Cronus’ mighty power and desperate attempts to avoid his fate prove useless, and soon his enraged son, Zeus, appears to wage a climactic battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flora the Red Menace</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/23/flora-the-red-menace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Maurer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, “One Good Break,” a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn’t be more apt as the theme behind the show’s creation. For musical theater enthusiasts, Flora the Red Menace is a dear artifact. In 1965, the legendary Harold Prince, who is still working as a producer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Servant of Two Masters</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/23/the-servant-of-two-masters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shakespeare theatre company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right around grade school we’re reminded that kids are intelligent in different ways. Some will grow up to be great mathematicians, others great diplomats or chefs. And the few hanging out by the costume chest banging on pots and pans just might show up onstage at The Shakespeare Theatre. It’s no slight to say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Take It With You</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/22/you-cant-take-it-with-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You think your family’s crazy? Compared to the purposefully pixilated Sycamore-Vanderhof clan — the characters, and I mean characters, populating George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s exuberant comedy You Can’t Take It With You — your relatives probably err on the side of prosaic. You get to hang out with these eccentric lovelies for nearly three, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice Child</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/22/the-ice-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lapin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory 449]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever there is to say about The Ice Child (and there’s a fair amount to say), no one can claim the play is spinning its wheels. To realize the tale of a girl captured and imprisoned in a basement freezer by her psychopath professor, the creative team has brought out as many bells and whistles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xanadu</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/21/xanadu-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signature theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely Planet</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/17/lonely-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrostage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many plays dealing with the heart of the AIDS crisis feature justifiable anger and fury. Yet Steven Dietz’s 1994 play Lonely Planet demonstrates that a gentle approach can be just as powerful and touching, as it is in the excellent production now playing at MetroStage. Michael Russotto as Jody and Eric Sutton as Carl (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hum</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/16/hum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Meslow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater alliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Do u no wot the hum is?” ask the cryptic ads for Hum, which had its world premiere on Monday night at the Atlas. Having seen the play, I now know what “the hum” is. But I’m still figuring out what Hum is – and that’s a point in the play’s favor. In promotional materials, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bacchae</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/16/the-bacchae/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/16/the-bacchae/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WSC Avant Bard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. Frank Britton and chorus (Photo: Kristina Sherk) We watch Euripides’ 2400-year-old The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Werther</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/15/werther/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/15/werther/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WNO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Werther, the final production of Washington National Opera’s 2011-2012 season, features some wonderful music in Jules Massenet’s lyrical score. It is beautifully supported by the strong dynamics of the orchestra under the baton of Emmanuel Villaume and the tempered singing of the cast. However, I am still trying to figure out how certain layers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Quiero a las Dos (I Want Them Both)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/15/las-quiero-a-las-dos-i-want-them-both/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/15/las-quiero-a-las-dos-i-want-them-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind Lacy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teatro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Talesnik is the Neil Simon of Hispanic Theatre.  But look out, Talesnik&#8217;s humor can throw you off-guard. A multi-award-winner for Argentine television comedies and for Las Quero a las Dos, which has been staged in New York and adapted as a movie, Talesnik explores conflict and pain in human relationships in a matchless way. He provokes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxygen</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/11/oxygen/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/11/oxygen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taffety punk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev, whose play Oxygen is being produced by Taffety Punk, is a proponent of the experimental school of New Drama where plot and character are no longer the basis of drama. New Drama playwrights often interview subjects and use their words verbatim as dialogue, attempting to knit a semblance of character from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punk Rock Mom</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/10/punk-rock-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/10/punk-rock-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=34967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when the black eyeliner fades, the safety pins tarnish, and everyone—not just Johnny Rotten—is pretty vacant? That’s the dilemma for Jamie (Deborah Randall), a former punk rock girl now staring down the barrel at 50. Sid Vicious’ dead, so is Joey Ramone and Malcolm McLaren and to make matter’s worse, Jamie—a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taming of the Shrew</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/08/the-taming-of-the-shrew-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/08/the-taming-of-the-shrew-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who says you can’t make The Shrew work? I did.  And I’ll eat my hat. The last time I had seen a truly stunning production of The Taming of the Shrew was in New York’s Central Park, a Joe Papp production, with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia in the leads. Theirs was a true match. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metamorphoses</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/07/metamorphoses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constellation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody in the pool! It’s a pool party of a sublimely archetypal sort in Constellation Theatre’s entrancing staging of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, directed with flair and a fanciful air by Allison Arkell Stockman. Eros/Psyche - Jade Wheeler and Michael Kevin Darnall (Photo: Scott Suchman) Miss Zimmerman’s movement, music and water-based take on Ovid’s tales of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Little Monkeys</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/five-little-monkeys/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/02/five-little-monkeys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Hayes nominee Valerie Leonard has likely not had to jump and pounce and cajole and herd a troupe of monkeys for a role before, but as Mama, she ratchets up the loving energy and keeps up with all five in this lively and adorable production. Leonard definitely has her hands full as the five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Meal</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/the-big-meal/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/the-big-meal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wives &amp; Wits</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/wives-wits/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/wives-wits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washington stage guild]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two one acts by Shaw at Washington Stage Guild open with the master playwright’s own words, not about romantic coquetry or love and devotion, but  about sex.  What he’s talking about is upfront and out there, it’s scandalous sex, which he explores to the max in the first adorable of two one acts presented.  (l-r) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nabucco</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/05/01/nabucco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WNO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Verdi’s first major operatic hit, Nabucco, opened this weekend at the Kennedy Center in a sumptuous new Washington National Opera production by American director and designer Thaddeus Strassberger. The visual spectacle of the first two acts carried both story and directorial concept, evoking Biblical spectacles painted on great canvases, in static yet strikingly heroic composition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 39 Steps</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/the-39-steps-olney-theatre-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. Patrick Barlow’s plot for The 39 Steps, photocopied from the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Meninas</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/las-meninas/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/las-meninas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ameigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rep stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many faces have historians and powers-that-be overlooked in favor of a cleaner ending, or a more convenient moral? History has captives and casualties, buried in basements and the minds of those that witnessed these crimes for themselves. Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas, directed by Eve Muson at Rep Stage, pauses to examine these crimes, peering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamlecchino: Clown Prince of Denmark</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/hamlecchino/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/hamlecchino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faction of fools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t take this the wrong way, but Hamlet has always been difficult for me.  Yeah, there are more than a few who say it’s Shakespeare’s greatest play (though the older you get, the more you appreciate King Lear).  But, to me, the Danish Play is too ponderous for its own good.  George Bernard Shaw &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Poppins</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/mary-poppins-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/30/mary-poppins-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hippodrome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[True story: My mother took my sister and my seven year-old self to see &#8220;Mary Poppins&#8221; in 1964 at a downtown Baltimore movie palace—who knows, it could have been the Hippodrome. The gilded theater was filled with mothers in suits and white gloves toting their daughters in crinolined party dresses. We sat in the plush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nautical Yards</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/29/the-nautical-yards/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/29/the-nautical-yards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[force/collision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Space is both an inspiration and one that provides parameters to force/collision, a collective of multi-disciplinary artists. The found space of The Yards Park Canal creates a fitting backdrop and also character, one which  “speaks” about war and the sea, separation and loss in the company’s newest dance-movement-theatre work, The Nautical Yards. from The Nautical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Begotten: O&#8217;Neill and the Harbor of Masks</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/28/begotten-oneill-and-the-harbor-of-masks/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/28/begotten-oneill-and-the-harbor-of-masks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind Lacy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fog rises and permeates the stage. From the dark, an ensemble of five actors emerge carrying lanterns. An atonal, drifting melody from an on-stage clarinet player, sounds of lapping water and fog horns lure us into an eerie, supernatural landscape. (Sound design by Roc Lee.)  Begotten: O&#8217;Neill and the Harbor of Masks, adapted, written and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinky Swear&#8217;s Killing Women</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/pinky-swears-killing-women/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/27/pinky-swears-killing-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pinky swear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Producer/ stars Allyson Harkey and Karen Lange, in their newest production for Pinky Swear—Marisa Wegryzn’s Killing Women— present a play about the big women’s issues of our day.  In particular, the work/ family struggle, and the pitfalls of women in a male-dominated profession.  Only here, that profession happens to be professional killing.  (l-r) Allison Galen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s A Grand Night for Singing indeed with Washington Savoyard&#8217;s production</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/26/its-a-grand-night-for-singing-indeed-with-washington-savoyards-production/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/26/its-a-grand-night-for-singing-indeed-with-washington-savoyards-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washington savoyards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re among the many, many Washingtonians who love good vocal and choral music, you can’t do better than to head on down to the Atlas Performing Arts Center to catch the Washington Savoyards’ great current offering, A Grand Night for Singing. Dorea Schmidt and Nick Lehan. (Photo: Jeff Malet) Conceived and put together by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing at Lughnasa</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/26/dancing-at-lughnasa/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/26/dancing-at-lughnasa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotidian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When faced with the choice between the safety of a familiar life and the potential of an unwritten future, which would you choose? In Quotidian Theatre’s poignant production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, five sisters maintain a comfortable yet monotonous routine in a small shared house, until male interlopers, implacable economic forces, and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Whipping Man at Theater J</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/25/the-whipping-man-at-theater-j/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/25/the-whipping-man-at-theater-j/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater j]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a reason why The Whipping Man is becoming one of the most produced plays around — its premise of a Passover Seder among newly freed slaves raised as Jews is mind-blowing, and with the right casting and directing, the play spins old concepts in stunningly creative new ways.  The production at Theater J hits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God of Carnage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/god-of-carnage/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/god-of-carnage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signature theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[God of Carnage feels like a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf for the 21st century.  The characters are better dressed, finer housed, super toned, and a whole lot funnier. But playwright Yasmina Reza argues that the same god still reigns, and that under the surface we are still primitives.  Scratch us and we don’t bleed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Morocco and Miss Havisham&#8217;s Fire</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/postcard-from-morocco-and-miss-havishams-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/24/postcard-from-morocco-and-miss-havishams-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clarice smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive and stunning celebration of composer Dominick Argento’s work is being presented at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and it simply should not be missed. Composer Dominick Argento Of the two major operas being offered in the program, Postcard from Morocco is the trickier. Not only does it lack a conventional story, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/23/working/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/23/working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keegan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you saw a musical about regular working stiffs? In Keegan Theatre&#8217;s breezy new production of Working, an assortment of blue and white-collar Americans offer a timely, uplifting meditation on the daily grind and all the rewards and regrets that accompany any job. Working  is primarily adapted from Studs Terkel&#8217;s highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Fly Away</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/come-fly-away/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/come-fly-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Maurer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s got Sinatra’s dulcet cool and Tharp’s kinetic heat baked in but still this puddin’ can’t rise. Come Fly Away, a remixed version of the 2010 Broadway dance revue now at The Kennedy Center, will be most appreciated by die-hard fans of the Sinatra songbook, dance connoisseurs exclusive of the general audience or those that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/ Lost Plays</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/the-complete-and-condensed-stage-directions-of-eugene-oneill-volume-1-early-plays-lost-plays/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/22/the-complete-and-condensed-stage-directions-of-eugene-oneill-volume-1-early-plays-lost-plays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arena stage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=34433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knew there was such a lode of priceless, unheralded Eugene O’ Neill material out there, and just under our noses?  The New York Neo-Futurists found it by digging in a place some of us are kicking ourselves for not thinking of. Many cultural eras have come and gone since O’Neill’s day, but the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Whipping Man at Center Stage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/21/the-whipping-man-at-center-stage/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/21/the-whipping-man-at-center-stage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[center stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets off to an astonishing start with his directorial debut production of Matthew Lopez’s mesmerizing play The Whipping Man. Atmospheric and haunting, the play unfolds at the Head Theatre, almost like a desolate ghost story. Set in Richmond in 1865, the tumultuous close of the Civil War, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our first night at the Howard to see Henson Alternative: Stuffed and Unstrung</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/19/our-first-night-at-the-howard-to-see-henson-alternative-stuffed-and-unstrung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howard theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The newly renovated Howard Theater is now a sparkling gem, brimming with excitement and glamour on an otherwise drab still-undergoing-rehab corner north of the Howard U. Metro stop.  Judging from the size of the crowd that showed up for the Henson Alternative adult puppet show, the place will be the next “Have you been there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/19/crown-of-shadows-the-wake-of-odysseus/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/19/crown-of-shadows-the-wake-of-odysseus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[round house]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life’s not easy if you&#8217;re young prince Telemachus.  You miss the dad you barely remember, people think you are too young to take over for a king and demigod like Odysseus, your mother Penelope is being forced to marry one of the many suitors she’s been sleeping around with, and you’re not sure if your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Opera duo: Booze and Cigarettes</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/18/new-opera-duo-booze-and-cigarettes/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/18/new-opera-duo-booze-and-cigarettes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urbanarias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary opera is supposed to be a rare and endangered species. Robert Wood, Artistic Director of UrbanArias, says otherwise and believes fervently that it’s a cause worth pursuing. His second season is proving that opera properly seeded and nurtured can thrive.  His recipe for his developing company is “Opera. Short. New.” Best of all, his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio 3&#8242;s children&#8217;s show, Home</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/studio-3-childrens-show-home/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/studio-3-childrens-show-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workhouse theatre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=34212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artistic director Caren Hearne was all bubbles and shine as she introduced Studio 3 Theatre for Young Audiences’ production of Lizzie Allen’s Home to a Saturday afternoon crowd at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton.  Studio 3, she announced, is the only theater in this country producing the English playwright’s work. Jason Krage as Todd [...]]]></description>
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