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		<title>The Wings of Ikarus Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We knew when we walked into the Kennedy Center Family Theater space, this was not going to be an ordinary play.  And when the central character, Ikarus, appeared, we  just knew this was no ordinary story about the new kid at school.  This curious boy, with red ribbons twisted into his hair, carrying a shiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Sieber &#8211; he&#8217;s played Georges on Broadway and now is Zaza on La Cage tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fabulous Zaza, as portrayed by singer/actor Christopher Sieber, is the heart and soul of La Cage aux Folles, the current revival of the smash Broadway musical now playing to packed houses at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Co-starring longtime Hollywood icon George Hamilton, the show charts the adventures and misadventures of a pair of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Cage aux Folles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; This is an encore of the review, originally posted Nov 3, 2011,  of the touring production&#8217;s stop at the Hippodrome in Baltimore &#8211; You’d kill for those shoes. And those legs. That’s your initial impression of the touring production of the Tony Award winning 2010 Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles. Les Cagelles (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, at some point before the lights in the Kennedy Center’s commodious Eisenhower Theater dim, you wonder why am I here you may be forgiven. Ann Richards was, after all, a one-term Governor, a liberal Democrat in a deeply conservative state who was elected principally because of the ineptness of her opponent. It is, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knuffle Bunny pairs a well-meaning Dad with an active, rambunctious pre-talking youngster, and depicts the tender moments of unconditional love as well as absolute bafflement between the two.  Paul Edward Hope as Dad, Tia Shearer as Trixie,and Brittany Baratz as Mom (Photo: Carol Pratt) Parents, guardians and caregivers will relate to Trixie’s steps as she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Elliot the Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical, now ensconsed at the Kennedy Center Opera House,  is a driving, energetic, and oddly appropriate holiday feast for thoughtful theatergoers. Spun off from the eponymous film version, the stage musical has a less oppressive feel than the original. But it still packs an emotional and political punch, particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holland Taylor on bringing Ann Richards to Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the call is for a smart, elegant, sophisticated woman who knows how to slip in a punch line, the answer is Holland Taylor. The star of stage, film and television found her match in the feisty star of Texas politics,  Governor Ann Richards. In the beginning The time: Election Year 1988. The setting: the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mabou Mines DollHouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O, Mabou Mines, what hath though wrought? Or – overwrought? Anyone who saw how the brilliant Mabou Mines production of Peter &#38; Wendy at Arena Stage four years ago explored the melancholy roots of the Peter Pan story would have a right to expect that this production would open up Henrik Ibsen’s 132-year-old play, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If family theatre ratings, like Olympic diving, included a degree of difficulty factor, the Kennedy Center premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog!  would earn a very high score.  It’s not easy to tackle the scientific method and solar fusion in a musical for children ages six and up.  Yet, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Les Misérables cast performs Broadway Cares benefit Oct 24th in DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the cast of Les Miserables The National Tour cast of Les Misérables, currently onstage at the Kennedy Center, will step out on October 24 to present a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an organization which supports individuals afflicted by critical health issues, including but not limited to AIDS. Tickets are $15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Weisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn’t often that a production will justify a reviewer’s use of the delightful word “pixilated,” especially as a homonym.  That said, if ever there was a time, it is now.  In Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon’s utterly transfixing and transporting 4D tribute to Scots-Canadian pioneer filmmaker Norman McLaren, here for a brief three-day engagement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Les Misérables</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/03/les-miserables-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Maurer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The odyssey of the redemptive thief turned champion of the innocent and the good, the story of the lodestar Jean Valjean and “the miserables” triumphantly returns to the Kennedy Center replete with the smoke, the shouts, the tragic appeals and the soaring spectacle that has made impassioned believers of audiences for the last 25 years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy Center&#8217;s launches MyTix discount and giveaway tickets program</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/19/kennedy-centers-launches-mytix-discount-and-giveaway-tickets-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center celebrates turning 40 with MyTix, a generous ticket discount program This month, forty people will win a pair of tickets to Les Misérables, and others will be able to take advantage of deeply discounted tickets, thanks to the generosity of Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein and his wife Alice Rubenstein. Called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday at Page-to-Stage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/06/monday-at-page-to-stage-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- WSC Avant Bard took a receptive audience to the bars, cafes and performance spaces of Zurich, Switzerland, in the time immediately following the First World War, in author Allyson Currin’s Caesar and Dada.  Backstage at the Theatre for Truth, the temperamental and imperious Swiss director Franz (James Konicek), a realist; the sensitive, war-damaged British stage designer Alfred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday at Page-to-Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept 3, 2011 &#8212; This year, as in years past, DCTS goes to the Kennedy Center to look at some of the plays in development at the Page-to-Stage Festival. These are mostly plays in some intermediate stage of their gestation (although excerpts from the two Signature musicals which are debuting later this month are part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Labor Day&#8217;s Free Page-to-Stage Festival schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 3, 2011 to Monday, September 5, 2011, featuring works presented by more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. As they have for the past nine years, some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Vanya</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/08/08/uncle-vanya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a particularly unfortunate week, what a pleasure it was to wallow in the misery of others. Especially when that misery was as lustrous as that portrayed by the Sydney Theatre Company in their startling production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hayley McElhinney as Sonya and Hugo Weaving as Astrov (Photo: Lisa Tomasetti) Nobody does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zayed and the Dream</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/19/zayed-and-the-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salma Qarnain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people of the United Arab Emirates are proud of their heritage and diversity, both of which are richly celebrated in Zayed and the Dream.  Presented by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and Lebanon’s Caracalla Dance Theatre, Zayed and the Dream celebrates the life and accomplishments of the UAE’s founding father, Sheikh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Caracalla, director of Zayed and the Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Cunis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conversation between Ben Cunis of Synetic Theater and Ivan Caracalla of Caracalla Dance Theater of Lebanon Caracalla is, by all accounts, a phenomenon. Founded in 1968 by Abdel Halim Caracalla, the Lebanese dance-theater has toured all over the world, bringing its unique fusion of Middle-Eastern dance styles and Martha Graham’s developments in the form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete World of Sports (Abridged)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/10/the-complete-world-of-sports-abridged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summertime is a perennial black hole for mainstream sports in the United States, with only baseball, golf, tennis, and the occasional Olympics or World Cup to distract from the doldrums of daily life.  The Reduced Shakespeare Company knows this, and has proposed a novel solution: cram every sport known to man into a The Complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next to Normal</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/07/02/next-to-normal-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out on a limb, up on a tightwire, off the high dive &#8212; Brian Yorkey (librettist and lyricist) and Tom Kitt (composer) took a bold challenge in constructing a musical around an otherwise typical suburban household rocked to its foundation by storms of mental illness. (l-r) Emma Hunton as Natalie and Alice Ripley as Diana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completely Hollywood (abridged)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/24/completely-hollywood-abridged-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing new under the sun, or in fact, under the Hollywood sign. The movie biz’s penchant for endlessly recycling itself is parodied in the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s show Completely Hollywood (abridged). Just as you may have sat through the movie &#8220;The Hangover Part II&#8221; and wondered “Whoa, haven’t I seen this before?,” in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wicked</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/20/wicked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every generation has its musical, and all lovers of musicals remember that first big show that knocked their socks off and whose songs they were singing months afterwards. Judging by the approving roar at the opening night of the national touring company&#8217;s Kennedy Center run, Wicked, the Stephen Schwartz/Winnie Holzman 2003 blockbuster musical, not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Wish You Love</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/06/16/i-wish-you-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cozying up in the Terrace Theatre for Penumbra Theatre Company’s reverent musical portrait of Nat King Cole is like taking a nice, long, lukewarm bath. The unvarying pace lulls you into a state of quiet nodding. Familiar melodies massage your ears. The show’s plot raises no challenges or difficult questions. By the time audiences leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follies</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/24/follies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not the air-conditioning causing goose bumps at the Eisenhower Theater. Instead, chills of pleasure are induced by director Eric Schaeffer’s deluxe, star-packed production of Follies, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s milestone 1971 musical about spectacle and specters from a distant past—a past that may not have been entirely real. Bernadette Peters as Sally (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragments</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/04/18/fragments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Weisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say the name Samuel Beckett, and most people think: Waiting for Godot, existentialism.  Theatre of the absurd, where absurd means meaningless.  As we watch Peter Brook and Marie Hélène Estienne’s spare but striking staging of five uneasy pieces by the late Irish playwright, the word also takes on its more everyday meaning.  And we realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McNally-revised Pal Joey heads up Kennedy Center Season</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/09/mcnally-revised-pal-joey-heads-up-kennedy-center-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its fifteen-production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McNally, as well as touring productions of current Broadway hits Memphis, Billy Elliot: The Musical, The Addams Family and La Cage aux Folles. Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theatre Company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Pacific</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/20/south-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Tischler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack may not be household names in the annals of theater, past or present. For sure, they can’t be called theater legends, even in the age of instant hyperbole. But maybe they should be, oughta be, and just maybe will be. David Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack (Photo: Craig Schwartz) Pittsinger, balding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An enchanted chat with South Pacific star David Pittsinger</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/14/an-enchanted-chat-with-south-pacific-star-david-pittsinger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have interviewed dozens of performers for DC Theatre Scene, but my chat with David Pittsinger is one of my all-time favorites. DC audiences will be hearing one of the greatest baritones in the world when David sings the role of Emile de Becque in South Pacific at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House.  As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cirque Dreams Holidaze spectacle comes to the Kennedy Center</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/30/cirque-dreams-holidaze-spectacle-comes-to-the-kennedy-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Goldberg, founder and artistic director of Cirque Productions, takes pride in the fact that reviews of his many Cirque Dreams shows usually mention the word “spectacle.”  He promises the same grandeur when Cirque Dream Holidaze debuts in the DC area with an eight-show run at the Kennedy Center next week. Photo courtesy of Cirque [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lulu Fall on being a member of the Hair tribe</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/15/lulu-fall-on-being-a-member-of-the-hair-tribe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lulu’s Back in Town I was so thrilled to hear that DC’s own Lulu Fall was cast in the National Tour of Hair, now playing through this weekend in The Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Lulu’s got it all &#8211; she’s a great singer, dancer, and actress, has a bubbly personality and is stunningly gorgeous. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Step</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/10/one-small-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few stories can inspire wonder as does the dawn of the Space Age, where in a dozen years we went from launching the first satellite to having men walk on the Moon.  This wonder is faithfully revisited in One Small Step, by the U.K. theatre company Oxford Playhouse which made a too brief stop at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hair</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/03/hair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The national touring production of Hair was officially launched last Thursday at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House to a wildly enthusiastic if somewhat less-than-full house. Subtitled, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” the revival of this grand-daddy of all rock musicals attracted a happy, chatty, diverse crowd predominated by Baby Boomers eager to relive all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locomotion</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/27/locomotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Chernick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll admit I wondered if a stage adaptation of &#8220;Locomotion&#8221; could capture the powerful voice in Jacqueline Woodson’s award-winning novel in verse.  Well, it can.  And it does. The show is a superior work in its own right, and an excellent addition to the fall line up at The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Nickolas Vaughan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards &#8211; call for nominations</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/01/stephen-sondheim-inspirational-teacher-awards-call-for-nominations/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/01/stephen-sondheim-inspirational-teacher-awards-call-for-nominations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center launches its new awards series honoring inspirational teachers The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced creation of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards – a series of $10,000 annual grants that will recognize inspiring teachers across the United States.  Stephen Sondheim The awards were created in honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Poppins</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/10/mary-poppins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s different from the wonderful 1964 musical film and even somewhat changed from the original 2004 West End theater production, which in turn differed from the movie. But the traveling edition of Disney’s musical stage extravaganza Mary Poppins, now running at the Kennedy Center Opera House, still has that same old magic: eye- popping visuals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completely Hollywood (abridged)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/28/completely-hollywood-abridged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems almost redundant to satirize the movie biz, since Hollywood does a pretty fine job already rendering itself absurd.  However, this should not deter you from wallowing in the celluloid craziness of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s show Completely Hollywood (abridged). (l-r) Dominic Conti, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor (Photo:John Burgess) Conceived in 2005, this loopy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thurgood</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/19/thurgood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Stevens, Jr’s  fine play is stuffed with anecdote, humor, excitement, horror and triumph. Part of it is Stevens’ writing, part of it is Laurence Fishburne’s spot-on performance, but most of it is the life that Marshall lived, and the role he played, frankly, in straightening America out.i]]></description>
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		<title>Sold out Thurgood gives free performance</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/15/sold-out-thurgood-gives-free-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurence Fishburne as Thurgood Marhsall The Kennedy Center&#8217;s production of Thurgood is completely sold out. You can&#8217;t buy a ticket to see Laurence Fishburne play Thurgood Marshall, but you can get in free when the play is videotaped this Friday, June 18th, starting at 1:30pm.  The Kennedy Center is looking for audiences members over 18, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knuffle Bunny</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/12/knuffle-bunny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Chernick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can relate to the trauma of a child losing a beloved stuffed animal, not to mention the resulting kerfuffle.  That’s why Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical really works. Written by Mo Willems, and based on his Caldecott Honor award winning book &#8220;Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale&#8221;, the story takes place in Brooklyn, NY, where [...]]]></description>
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