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		<title>Suburban Motel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When I think about things I don’t understand, I get depressed,” says dimbulb R.J. (Ryan Tumulty) in Risk Everything, the better of the two George F. Walker one-acts now being produced by 1st Stage. R.J. gets depressed a lot. But for the rest of us, in a context where truth is as elusive as quicksilver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell me if you think this is funny: A young man is called home from his studies upon the sudden death of his father. Arriving, he discovers his mother in the arms of a local vulgarian, Matt Dewberry as Felix and Martha Karl as Mercy (Photo: 1st Stage) and despite the efforts of his mother’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By the Bog of Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1st Stage’s slam-bang production, brings us into Carr’s nightmarish universe at the speed of thought, and keeps us there relentlessly for two and a half hours.]]></description>
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		<title>The Prisoner of Zenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ambitious young company at 1st Stage has had a run of successful productions, but the law of inevitability may have caught up with them with this production of the classic swashbuckler The Prisoner of Zenda. Sorry to report it is only average as a result of a flawed script and an overly melodramatic style. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Days of Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A play consists of a story and its telling. The story needn’t be particularly compelling – “my uncle murdered my father and is sleeping with my mother” is a little Jerry Springer-ish, but it will do in a pinch – if the telling is good. However, there must be a story. Richard Greenberg has no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Game of Love and Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an enjoyable trip to the theatre, The Game of Love and Chance is a delightful option.  1st Stage opens its season with a charming and energetic production of the classic farce. Silvia (Beth Rothschild) is about to be introduced to Dorante (Jacob Yeh) for a possible arranged marriage.  The refined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare&#8217;s R &amp; J</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider four young men &#8211; let&#8217;s call them Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt, but really, they could be anyone &#8211; on the very cusp of their adolescence.  Chemicals course through their bloodstreams, calling their brains to love and violence. Their world is run by people their parents&#8217; age, all of whom seem like fools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Herring</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/05/red-herring-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a play about secrets. Big secrets. O.K., I can say this much &#8211; playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus)? He&#8217;s the real deal. And director Jessica Lefkow (Honey Brown Eyes)? She&#8217;s the real deal, too. And this company, 1st Stage? They are the real deal, for real. For shizzle, baby. Maybe I can say this: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig Farm</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/16/pig-farm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pig Farm By Greg Kotis Directed by Mark Kirkstan Produced by 1st Stage Reviewed by Tim Treanor When Pig Farm showed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival last year, you couldn&#8217;t tell that it was a comedy until people started getting killed. Not so for 1st Stage&#8217;s riotous staging of the latest from the creator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Violet Hour</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/23/the-violet-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Violet Hour By Richard Greenberg Directed by Mark Krikstan Produced by 1st Stage Reviewed by Tim Treanor I want to talk to you about something very serious. But because you have engaged me here to review theater, and not to discuss cultural problems generally, I must save these remarks until later, and first tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Suicide by Nicolai Erdman, translated and adapted by John Freedman produced by 1st Stage directed by Mark Krikstan reviewed by Tim Treanor Pity poor Semyón Semyónovich (Lucas Beck). He lives in a glorious worker&#8217;s republic, and yet he has no job! His most recent scheme &#8211; to win untold riches, and to thus be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Professional Theatre Comes to McLean</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/07/a-new-professional-theatre-comes-to-mclean/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/07/a-new-professional-theatre-comes-to-mclean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lorraine Treanor 1st Stage, a new professional theatre company has debuted in the Spring Hill/Tysons area and in its own brand new theatre space. Had they consulted economists, the 1st Stage group of friends might not have proceeded with plans to take on the responsibility of building a new theater space in a climate [...]]]></description>
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