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		<title>Necessary Sacrifices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing truly prepares one for the remarkable resemblance of the actors David Selby and Craig Wallace to the characters they portray, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in the world premiere Necessary Sacrifices just opened at Ford’s Theatre.  Selby not only takes on the gait, the hunched shoulders and the reported pitched voice of the slain President, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looming government shutdown means loss for Liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impending shutdown of the Federal Government would also close Ford Theatre’s performances of Liberty Smith, the Ford Theatre Society announced last night. The announcement reverses a previous decision to continue the show regardless of whether the government is authorized to spend money after midnight on Friday, April 8. Ford’s Theatre, where John Wilkes Booth assassinated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many in the music-theatre world will tell you, three main genres of musicals are being produced today.  There’s your “classic” fare from the golden days of 30’s and 40&#8242;s American musical.  There’s your Sondheim and Sondheim spinoffs.  And then there’s Disney. The last is marked by amiable tunes supported by somewhat witty if anachronistic lyrics in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Matt August on Liberty Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt August returns to direct Ford’s Theatre’s world premiere of the musical Liberty Smith following up on the popular run of his direction of A Christmas Carol, that played at Ford’s from 2004 through 2008.  His previous directorial credits include the Broadway production of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2006, 2007) and subsequent national tours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History will haunt Ford&#8217;s 2011-2012 Season</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/16/history-will-haunt-fords-2011-2012-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ghosts of American history will join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Be in Ford Theatre’s 2011-2012 season which the Company announced yesterday. Ford’s will open the season with a Jason Robert Brown musical about one of the most despicable events in American history – the trial and lynching of Leo Frank. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Carpetbagger&#8217;s Children</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/01/30/the-carpetbaggers-children-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past and present don’t collide in Harrison, Texas so much as they come to an uneasy truce. In the early years of Reconstruction, when townsfolk feared and distrusted the southern migration of Union families, the challenge to overcome the recent past was steep indeed. A few decades later, swept up in the industrial boom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/04/a-christmas-carol-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, you will be visited by three spirits. Watch for when the clock strikes one… then two… then three. You won’t believe what emerges from the dark shadows. Well, Scrooge won’t believe it. Not for a few scenes. As for us, we’ll eat it up, no questions asked. I can think of few stories more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sabrina Fair</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/12/sabrina-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sabrina Daly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ford’s Theater opened its 2010-2011 season last week with a charming production of Samuel A. Taylor’s romantic comedy Sabrina Fair. Written in the early 1950s, Sabrina Fair opened on Broadway in 1953 and tells a Cinderella-esque story about a young girl who is looking for true love but finds her hopes and dreams stunted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s performance of Sabrina Fair is canceled</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/09/tuesdays-performance-of-sabrina-fair-is-canceled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ford’s Theatre announced today that it has canceled the October 12th performance of Sabrina Fair, due to a death in the immediate family of one of its cast members. Anyone holding tickets to this performance have until October 17th to either exchange them for any other performance – the show closes October 24th – or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Shop of Horrors</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/21/little-shop-of-horrors-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With inspired performances, dazzling costumes, and one of the most magnificent stage monsters you’ll ever see, Ford's Theatre's Little Shop of Horrors provides a welcome blast of campy, energetic fun. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rivalry</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/01/30/the-rivalry-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a play in which two long-dead men argue, without resolution, about an issue which has been settled for years. Why is it that a hundred fifty years later, the Lincoln-Douglas debates can still grip our hearts, and move us to tears?]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/05/a-christmas-carol-4/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/05/a-christmas-carol-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With strong performances, fantastic set pieces, elaborate costumes, and impressive musical numbers, the dramatic spectacle at Ford's Theatre will dazzle audiences young and old.]]></description>
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		<title>Black Pearl&#8217;s author Frank Higgins</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/07/black-pearls-author-frank-higgins/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/07/black-pearls-author-frank-higgins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playwright Frank Higgins takes us on his journey of writing Black Pearl Sings! &#8211; from researching American folklore, discovering the story that led to creating his characters, finding an African song which would serve as a powerful moment in the play, the workshops, the first production, the endless rewrites, and, finally,  the opening at Ford’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Pearl Sings!</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/03/black-pearl/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/03/black-pearl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Pearl Sings! covers a lot of territory telling what happens when Susannah, an educated musicologist travels into the deep South seeking old folk songs containing hints of African tradition and style. Susannah finds Pearl, an illiterate, uneducated woman with the searing contralto-lilted voice of freedom laced with hints of slavery, serving time in prison.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/07/the-civil-war-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of using the Civil War as a backdrop for a musical is not as far-fetched as it originally seems.  After a visceral gut response of &#8220;Huh?&#8221;  comes a more open-minded, &#8220;Why not?&#8221; which may have been the creative stages of writers Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy to create, design and orchestrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heavens Are Hung in Black</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/12/the-heavens-are-hung-in-black/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/12/the-heavens-are-hung-in-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heavens Are Hung in Black Written by James Still Directed by Stephen Rayne Produced by Ford&#8217;s Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson I have been thinking fondly about this touching world premiere since I saw it, and I&#8217;ll likely see it again.  The scenes and images stay with you, in a drifting, dreamy sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford&#8217;s Theatre Closing for Renovations</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/06/01/fords-theatre-closing-for-renovations/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/06/01/fords-theatre-closing-for-renovations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in today&#8217;s Washington Post, Ford&#8217;s theatre will be undergoing an $8.5 million renovation. Renovations will include an elevator, handicapped access and technical improvements. The annual A Christmas Carol will be presented this year, but otherwise the theater will remain dark for 18 months. More details here.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet John Doe</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/03/20/meet-john-doe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the piano: (l to r) Andrew Gerle, Joel Markowitz, Eddie Sugarman They are the newest &#8216;it&#8217; guys &#8211; composer Andrew Gerle and lyricist Eddie Sugarman &#8211; loaded with talent, funny, refreshing and boy can they sell a song! They have hit the big time with their first partnership (they also co-wrote the book) for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/11/23/a-christmas-carol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS Adapted by Michael Wilson with Original Direction by Matt August Original Staging Recreated by Mark Ramont Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy There’s a reason for the standing ovation at the end. Experiencing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Ford’s Theatre is thrilling.It’s more than the spectacular technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/09/30/state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Produced by Ford&#8217;s Theatre Reviewed by Tim Treanor &#8220;Democracy,&#8221; H.L. Mencken once wrote, &#8220;is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.&#8221; In Ford Theatre&#8217;s handsome, amiable, absolutely charming State of the Union, the people want spontaneity, high principle, and [...]]]></description>
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