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		<title>Theatres get ready for gala season. Here&#8217;s your invitation to join them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, all right, you’ve got some money in your pocket, and you feel like unleashing your own personal stimulus program for Washington area theaters. You know the primary benefit of your tax-deductible contribution: quality theater, DC-style. But what’s the icing? How are you going to have fun at the same time you’re handing cash over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olney Theatre announces its 2012 season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olney Theatre Center, which operates on a calendar year season, having just ended its 2011 season last weekend with the highly successful Sound of Music, thanks to several extensions, has just announced its 2012 season. The season, which will mark the farewell for long-time Artistic Director Jim Petosa, opens February 22nd with the popular family musical You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/19/a-christmas-carol-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Bangs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Morella, backed by the Olney Theatre Center, has done something wonderful with Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol. He has taken it back to its roots by returning to the novella penned by Dickens in 1843 and brings it to life in the simplest possible terms. He tells the tale exactly as written, as Dickens himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Music</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/22/the-sound-of-music-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 1938, and Europe is settling down to dream the worst nightmare in human history. Georg von Trapp (George Dvorsky), an Austrian hero of the Great War, has lost his wife, and is about to lose his country. He marshals his seven motherless children about in military order, outfitting them in sailor’s costumes (by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witness for the Prosecution</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/03/witness-for-the-prosecution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witness for the Prosecution is a six-course meal of a play, a lip-smacking, eye-rolling, stomach-rumbling grand buffet of – wait for it – vintage fifties, English-style murder, complete with basso-profundo defense barristers, harrumphing prosecutors, astringent judges, silly young secretaries, and a wide-eyed, decent, innocent young defendant – or so he seems. It is the sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olney Theatre presents its free outdoor Taming of the Shrew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ameigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Olney Theatre Center, Olney’s 73-year-old professional, award-winning Equity theater, is ending August on a wild note. On August 26 and 27, they’ll celebrate their 22nd annual Shakespeare Theatre Festival with the National Player’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The festival is free of charge, and will be held at Olney Theatre Center’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grease</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grease is one of those Broadway musicals that’s been grown, shrunk, and re-shaped over time so that each version you see can be rather different from the last. The Olney Theatre’s sprightly but not completely satisfying take on the show resembles more recent Broadway and London iterations, circa 2007, with perhaps a snip or two. Jessica [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hollinger, who is enjoying a well-deserved revival here (he co-adapted Folger’s Cyrano with Aaron Posner, and his Red Herring had a recent run at Washington Stage Guild), was a violinist before he was a playwright. He thus brings insight and assured realism to Opus, a story about the lives of classical musicians who are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amadeus the latest of 4 Spring shows to add performances</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/27/amadeus-the-latest-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 12:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics and audiences alike are declaring Edward Gero and Sasha Olinick  a triumph in Amadeus at Round House Theatre, which just added three performances, now closing June 12th. Washington loves all things Stoppard, as the MetroStage production of The Real Inspector Hound is proving. With strong ensemble acting, the hysterical locked room mystery has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farragut North</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/04/farragut-north/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 19:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- just-released &#8220;Ides of March&#8221; reviewed here - Beau Willimon’s Farragut North is the kind of “built in Washington” drama that DC theater aficionados clearly will enjoy. In addition, for die-hard political junkies, Farragut North, crisply directed by Clay Hopper for Olney Theatre Center, offers a preview of coming attractions in 2012. That’s due in large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/01/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1973 in London before it moved to the west end. It still had some of the enthusiasm and roughness of a school production, which indeed was the source of its first commission of a 19-year old Andrew Lloyd Webber. In some ways, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/21/a-christmas-carol-a-ghost-story-of-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind Lacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Morella brings A Christmas Carol up front and personal in an inspired, deeply-felt, moving one-man marathon monologue. On opening night, this consummate actor brought a full-house audience to a standing ovation. That’s impressive. Paul Morella (Photo: Stan Barouh) Morella revives the Anglo-Celtic art of storytelling by shaving some of the hyperbole from the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Annie look like a million bucks</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/01/making-annie-look-like-a-million-bucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these cash strapped times, how do you mount a blockbuster production of a Depression era musical featuring the work of two Tony Award winning artists?  Olney Theatre Company was able to do just that for its widely-praised production of Annie – with a little help from its friends. “I knew that Olney Theatre couldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leapin’ lizards! Annie’s back in town!  Charles Strouse’s and Martin Charnin’s Tony Award-winning 1977 hit Broadway musical, currently playing at the Olney Theatre Center in suburban Maryland, is a hands-down holiday treat for the entire family. Caitlin Deerin as Annie and Abbie, the dog, as Sandy (Photo: Stan Barouh) Based loosely on Harold Gray’s depression-era [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misalliance</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/07/misalliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Ponick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Olney Theatre Center opened its colorful new production of George Bernard Shaw’s rollicking screwball comedy Misalliance this past weekend. We found Saturday evening’s performance visually striking and earnestly performed. But alas, it’s lacking, thus far at least, in the kind of acting necessary to bring this sparkling, argumentative classic fully to life. Although Misalliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with Friends</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/09/02/dinner-with-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playwright Donald Margulies has a way of building emotionally charged moments that begin benignly, even innocently, and then before you know it—bam, right in the kisser.  His Dinner with Friends playing at the Olney Theatre Center does just that, portraying the impact that a couple’s deteriorating relationship has on their friends.  The play reflects how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Savannah Disputation</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/08/04/the-savannah-disputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of that old-time religion is dished out in a comedy that is as light and delectable as the banana pudding served by one of the gracious Southern matrons in the second half of Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation, an area premiere at Olney Theatre Center directed by John Going.]]></description>
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		<title>Forever Plaid</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/23/forever-plaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Ying</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If theaters renamed their shows to fit their productions, then Olney Theater Center&#8217;s should rename their current production of Forever Plaid to be Forever Fun.  The team at Olney have put together a foot-tapping, seat-rocking, summer spectacular show. (Top, l-r) Ben Lurye as Sparky, Dan Van Why as Smudge, (Bottom, l-r) Patrick Thomas Cragin as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trumpery</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/16/trumpery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trumpery is the story of the origin of the “Origins of the Species,” Charles Darwin’s revolutionary  theory of natural selection. The prelude to publication was a time of crisis and adventure for Darwin (Ian LeValley), who struggled with the religious implications of his discovery (“If I finish the book, I’m a killer,” he says. “I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olney Theatre reveals it&#8217;s struggling to survive</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/04/olney-theatre-reveals-its-struggling-to-survive/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/04/olney-theatre-reveals-its-struggling-to-survive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A successful donor drive this spring has helped, but more help is needed, Olney General Manager says. Brian Hughes of the Washington Examiner was the first to report on the serious financial situation now being faced by Olney Theatre. “Olney Theatre in deep trouble.” (May 31st).  The article stated that Olney Theatre Center is carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bus Stop</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/25/bus-stop-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Ying</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This classic romantic comedy seems to have withstood the test of time.  Many remember Marilyn Monroe, as Cherie, in the 1956 film. The story still warms the audience like stepping inside from the cold of the Midwestern blizzard that provides the background for the play. During the storm, a bus has become stranded at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A round table talk with the men of Camelot</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/30/a-roundtable-talk-with-the-men-of-camelot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviews with director Stephen Nachamie, musical director Christopher Youstra, and performers Todd Alan Johnson (King Arthur), Aaron Ramey (Sir Lancelot), Evan Casey (Mordred), and Bill Largess (Merlyn and Pellinore). Audiences are royally in love with Olney Theatre Center’s production of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, and it’s due to the royal performances of its leads –Todd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night Must Fall</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/07/night-must-fall-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to appreciate this Grand Daddy of psychological murder mysteries with its stellar casting, early glimpses into emotional deviant behavior, and case study portrayal of misplaced affection, all delivered in the parlor of a spectacularly designed set ( James Wolk). It’s always fun to see what famous actors do with a handy script, analyze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glass Menagerie</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/05/the-glass-menagerie-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Ying</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a special atmosphere created when Helen Hayes winner, Jim Petosa, conducts a production and this Glass Menagerie at Olney Theatre is no exception. Petosa was, of course, Olney&#8217;s Artistic Director for 15 years, and treated us to an amazing cornucopia of wonderful shows. In 2002, he became  Director of the School of Theatre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call of the Wild</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/15/call-of-the-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely do two acts differ so much in content and quality as in the new musical Call of the Wild at Olney Theatre Center.  After a difficult and challenging first act, the work is redeemed by a terrific second. The first act is based on Jack London&#8217;s novel  &#8220;Call of the Wild.&#8221;  His human hero, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King of the Jews</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/03/23/king-of-the-jews-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The novel King of the Jews is the story of the heroic Jew Trumpelman, who makes the fatal decision to collaborate with Nazi oppressors in order to save the lives of the other Jews in his community. Trumpelman is a complicated man &#8211; a seducer of women and a con man &#8211; but he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is He Dead?</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/16/is-he-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is He Dead? By Mark Twain Adapted by David Ives Directed by Halo Wines Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Steven McKnight Would Is He Dead? have received a Broadway debut in 2007 if it had not been a long lost work written a century earlier by Mark Twain?  It&#8217;s a creaky and formulaic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Pan</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/17/peter-pan/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/17/peter-pan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Pan: The Musical Book by J.M. Barrie Music by: Mark Charlap, additional music by Jule Styne Lyrics by: Carolyn Leigh, additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Directed by Eve Muson. Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Gary McMillan If you can pry junior&#8217;s fingers from his Game Boy, he just might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underpants</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/02/the-underpants/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/02/the-underpants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind Lacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Underpants adapted by Steve Martin from a play by Carl Sternheim directed by John Going produced by Olney Theatre Center reviewed by Rosalind Lacy Steve Martin, of Saturday Night Live fame, knows how to tell a joke just right. Even bawdy ones, abounding with double entendres, in a German farce that airs out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit Hole</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/12/rabbit-hole/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/12/rabbit-hole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbit Hole Written by David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Mitchell Hébert Produced by Olney Theater Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson In this metro-area premiere, a suburban couple that seems to have all the creature comforts of home shows the frayed edges of trying to cope with a tragic loss.   Filled with sincerity, poignant humor and hints of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff Happens</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/07/08/stuff-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/07/08/stuff-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Ying</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuff Happens by David Hare Directed by Jeremy Skidmore Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Ted Ying Politics is the most exciting game in town.  Or so says my friend, the political lobbyist.  How else can he explain his choice of career, when he has worked in several more lucrative professions?  Olney&#8217;s Stuff Happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mousetrap</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/06/23/the-mousetrap/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/06/23/the-mousetrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mousetrap Written by Agatha Christie Directed by John Going Produced at Olney Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson How does the longest running show in the history of London&#8217;s famed West End, one that has been performed on Broadway and throughout America for decades still have enough punch to keep ‘em guessing for yet another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1776</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/04/21/1776-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/04/21/1776-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1776 Book by Peter Stone . Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards Directed and Choreographed by Stephen Nachamie Reviewed by Tim Treanor If 1776 was merely a musical, it would not be much of one. Its pleasant score contains not a single memorable song, and the harmonies tend toward the barber-shop variety. Similarly, Olney&#8217;s production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Dates</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/29/bad-dates/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/29/bad-dates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind Lacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy &#8220;Oh, god, these things hurt,&#8221; referring to shoes in the opening lines of playwright Theresa Rebeck&#8217;s Bad Dates. Haley Walker, an almost 40, divorced mother, alone in her New York City digs, lives in a hyper-kinetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/02/20/doubt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/02/20/doubt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you do when you&#8217;re not sure?&#8221; is a question posed by Father Flynn at the start of John Patrick Shanley&#8217;s award-winning play Doubt: A Parable.  Ironically the answer to this question will determine Flynn&#8217;s fate when suspicions of child molestation arise in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964.  This deeply-layered work never fully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddler on the Roof</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/04/fiddler-on-the-roof/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/04/fiddler-on-the-roof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book by Joseph Stein Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Directed by John Vreeke Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Gary McMillan For those who have not seen a stage or the screen production of Fiddler or read the writings of Sholem Aleichem (which served as source material), Fiddler on the Roof [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Nite Catechism</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/late-nite-catechism/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/late-nite-catechism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Nite Catechism by Maripat Donovan and Vicki Quade Produced by Olney Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson Late Nite Catechism &#8211; even a caveman knows that the show&#8217;s been around for years, but for the uninitiated, the blaring clue in the title, the jargony spelling of &#8220;Nite,&#8221; speaks volumes about the silliness that awaits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Mice and Men</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/01/of-mice-and-men/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/01/of-mice-and-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck Directed by Alan Wade Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Tim Treanor All hail Christopher Lane, who has put forth the 2007-2008 season&#8217;s first towering performance as Lenny, the profoundly retarded, childlike giant who is the focus of Olney&#8217;s Of Mice and Men.    Lenny is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/07/23/democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/07/23/democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Frayn Directed by Jim Petosa Produced by Olney Theatre Center Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy On one level Michael Frayn&#8217;s 2003 play Democracy is a political shocker. The intrigue and revelations that iron-lock our attention to the Olney Theatre Center&#8217;s new mainstage are quiet and intellectual. What starts as an intellectual chess game becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Boy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/07/03/brooklyn-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/07/03/brooklyn-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Margulies Directed by Jim Petosa Produced by Olney Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson Brooklyn Boy contains all the freshness, humorous quips, poignancy, and twists and turns of natural realism that you expect in a play by Donald Margulies.  Add in Jim Petosa&#8217;s flawless direction, plus Paul Morella&#8217;s shimmering performance as Eric Weiss, [...]]]></description>
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