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		<title>The Whipping Man at Theater J</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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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>Alexander Strain and Mark Hairston of The Whipping Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Brack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fridays, the Jewish Community Center on 16th Street NW is mostly quiet and dark in observation of Shabbat. But still, deep in the belly of the JCC, a theatrical rumbling is building its steam. The Whipping Man is this Spring&#8217;s theatrical offering from Theater J. A small cast of rugged and well read gentlemen share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater J&#8217;s upcoming season includes two plays by DC playwrights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holdridge, Vreeke, Goldman and Serotsky scheduled to direct; Lawton play to have its world premiere Two acclaimed dramas from Israel will highlight Theater J’s 2012-2013 season. The company will stage Savyon Liebrecht’s Apples from the Desert from December 15, 2012 until January 6, 2013 and Boged: an Enemy of the People, co-authored by Return to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some shows leave audiences humming a tune on their way out of the theatre. The hum you feel as the lights fall on New Jerusalem is a deeper vibration: the mental buzz that lingers after a wave of big thinking. Mental gymnastics are performed with flair in this invigorating drama, re-mounted at Theater J this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theatres get ready for gala season. Here&#8217;s your invitation to join them</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/10/theatres-get-ready-for-gala-season-heres-your-invitation-to-join-them/</link>
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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>Electile Dysfunction: the Kinsey Sicks for President!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I’m over-analyzing things. But after a thorough review of the evidence, plus an extensive background check, I’m just not convinced that the Kinsey Sicks are actually running for president. I don&#8217;t like to doubt the intentions of America&#8217;s favorite drag a cappella (sorry, &#8216;dragapella&#8217;) musical comedy group. Lord knows the Republican party needs a winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playwright Renee Calarco on The Religion Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think sex conversations in relationships are cringeworthy, try throwing religion into the mix. Talk about awkward. Renee Calarco (Photo: James Meerdter) Washington playwright Renee Calarco delves into the intricacies of intimacy, faith and trust in her new comedy The Religion Thing, directed by her brother Joe Calarco and playing through Jan. 29 at Theater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Religion Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faith can bind people together under the banner of common belief, or it can create deep rifts, irreconcilable by way of reason or shared history. In Theater J’s lovingly crafted production of Renee Calarco’s The Religion Thing, a polished cast navigates the playwright’s meditation upon the complex role of faith in relationships, marked by a heady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Ende named Theater J Managing Director</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/09/rebecca-ende-named-theater-j-managing-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Ende, who served as Theater J’s Director of Marketing and Communications for three years before becoming President of the Board of Forum Theater, will return to her old company as Managing Director, Theater J announced Wednesday. Rebecca Ende (courtesy of Theater J) &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be more excited to step into this new role at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Fall</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/04/after-the-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some memories waft into view from a lazy distance. Others brew slowly in the back of the mind. No such luck for Quentin, whose trip down memory lane isn’t so much a stroll as a triathlon, elbowed from all sides by the family, friends, and lovers of days gone by. If he runs off track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation on Race and Performance with Parade&#8217;s Kevin McAllister</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/19/a-conversation-on-race-and-performance-with-parades-kevin-mcallister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once headed for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances in the musical Parade at Ford&#8217;s Theatre If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank – and the lynching that followed two years later – seems to you like uncomfortable fodder for a Tony Award-winning musical, actor Kevin McAllister can relate. “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parade</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/03/parade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the western sun has set on Arena Stage’s Oklahoma!, Washington is in danger of being bereft of glorious singing voices and exemplary choral work. That void will be filled by Ford Theatre’s thrillingly sung Parade, a co-production with Theater J, directed with skill and sensitivity by Stephen Rayne. The two musicals couldn’t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining Madoff</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/08/imagining-madoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Bernie, do you follow baseball?” asks gnomish, delightful Solomon Galkin (Mike Nussbaum). He is talking to Bernard Madoff (Rick Foucheux), the most notorious criminal of the twenty-first century. “It’s a marvelous game…It just goes on and on, there’s no clock! Always, we live by the clock, but not in baseball!” And so Deb Margolin’s Imagining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet famed Chicago actor Mike Nussbaum, in town to play Madoff client</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/06/meet-mike-nussbaum-to-play-madoff-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pre-production version of Deborah Margolin’s Imagining Madoff was largely composed of dialogue between the notorious criminal named in the title and the famous writer, holocaust survivor and philosopher, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. The choice was easy to justify: there is probably no one living more widely respected for his moral responsibility that Wiesel, whereas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining the Madoff within us</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/08/31/imagining-the-madoff-within-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Rick Foucheux The actor’s stock-in-trade is his ability to empathize with the character he plays, in order to make that character recognizably human, with clear motivations. The actor must be nonjudgmental: “if you comment, and judge your character, you’re not coming at it the right way,” 4-time Helen Hayes Laureate Holly Twyford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moscows of Nantucket</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/19/the-moscows-of-nantucket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family reunions and vacations often provide rich material for stage and screen. In Theater J&#8217;s world premiere of The Moscows of Nantucket, simmering tensions, clashing personalities, and close quarters combine for high comedy and family drama at a picturesque beachfront hideaway. James Flanagan as Benjamin (Photo: Stan Barouh) This hilarious, bittersweet play follows the quirky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with playwright Sam Forman</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/06/interview-with-playwright-sam-forman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 16:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Forman is back in town, and, for a 34-year-old playwright who has spent much of his life writing stories of  nervous, young men whose ambitions crash up against their daily insecurities, he’s surprisingly calm. As Forman looks ahead to the opening of The Moscows of Nantucket, premiering at Theater J on Wednesday, he shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 shows and 1 movie I&#8217;m glad I saw</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/06/11-shows-and-1-movie-im-glad-i-saw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to slow down a bit after having heart surgery the end of February, so I carefully selected shows I thought I’d have a great time seeing and for the most part I chose wisely. The critics have spoken (and you can read their reviews here) but here’s my take. (l-r) Joshua Morgan as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photograph 51</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/31/photograph-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Theater J’s recently announced 2011-2012 season,“Brilliant Fictions/Shattering Facts”, could also apply to its current production of Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler’s fascinating drama of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s role in the race to decipher the DNA molecule, an accomlishment that made James Watson &#38; Francis Crick household names. Elizabeth Rich (Photo: Stan Barouh) Franklin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chosen</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/18/the-chosen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go to live theater for fireworks, but in the case of Theater J’s fine staging of The Chosen, transplanted to Arena Stage for a brief run, often the production’s pleasures are revealed in the silences and the emotions unspoken between fathers and sons, as well as between two very different friends. (l-r) Joshua Morgan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua Morgan and Derek Kahn Thompson from The Chosen</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/11/joshua-morgan-and-derek-thompson-from-the-chosen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Morgan and Derek Kahn Thompson on playing Danny and Young Reuven in The Chosen I read Chaim Potok’s The Chosen when it was first published in 1967. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Buffalo, NY where me and most of my 5 brothers played hockey and baseball in the streets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Steinberg Award nominated plays have DC connections</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/03/02/two-steinberg-award-nominated-plays-have-dc-connections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two plays with links to Washington theater – a family drama which was seen in 2010’s Source Festival and a tragicomedy about Superman which will run during Theater J’s 2011-2012 season – are among the six finalists for the prestigious Steinberg New Play Award, the American Theater Critics Association announced today. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Haifa</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/01/17/return-to-haifa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The terrible consequences of war never make for short summary, but the ongoing loss of our children is surely the most egregious crime on the list. In some families, the smallest and most innocent disappear completely. In others, it’s in the transformations a child goes through during wartime &#8211; the small and large tragedies through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Haifa &#8211; finding empathy on embattled ground</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/01/13/return-to-haifa-finding-empathy-on-embattled-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Certo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting Saturday, January 15th, Theater J will host a two-week run of Return to Haifa, an adaptation by Israeli journalist and playwright Boaz Gaon of Ghassan Kanafani’s 1969 novella. Discounting a plagiarized version done by the Next Theatre Company in Illinois, this will be the play’s first production in the United States. Presented by Israel&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oy Vey! Schmoozing with The Kinsey Sicks</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/29/oy-vey-schmoozing-with-the-kinsey-sicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was interviewing the four outrageously loveable, funny and eccentric members of The Kinsey Sicks who are tearing up the mistletoe at Theater J. But, instead, eight showed up &#8211; since sometimes the KS actors/writers responded as their boy names and sometimes as their character&#8217;s girl names. Before we can move on – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oy Vey in a Manger</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/22/oy-vey-in-a-manger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seasonal schmaltz making you farklempt?  Tarnish that tinsel with a refreshing nip of filth in The Kinsey Sick’s raunchy holiday roundelay Oy Vey in a Manger. The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater at Theater J has seen some sights in its time, but probably not four men in perfectly-coiffed drag singing seamless a capella harmony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schmoozing with Felix and Oscar</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/11/05/schmoozing-with-felix-and-oscar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Foucheux and J. Fred Shiffman on playing Oscar Madison and Felix Unger in Theater J’s The Odd Couple. They are two of my favorite actors and two of the nicest people I know. What I respect most about Rick Foucheux and J. Fred Shiffman is that they are both eloquent and passionate about their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Odd Couple</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/28/the-odd-couple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The years, and an intervening, long-running TV show, have fuzzed our memories of what Neil Simon’s great comedy was about, but Theater J’s fine production will set us straight. Oscar Madison (Rich Foucheux) and Felix Ungar (J. Fred Shiffman) are not stock comic characters, cranky and neurotic in turn, but unhappy men with deep emotional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something You Did</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/09/07/something-you-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The times, they stay the same. For thirty long and lonely years the brilliant Alison Moulton has lived the bleak, unchanging life of a maximum security prison inmate. Her crime: lending a hand &#8211; and possibly some supplies &#8211; to her young activist friends for an anti-war bombing in downtown New York, which resulted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining Madoff gets staged &#8211; without Wiesel</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/08/06/imagining-madoff-gets-staged-without-wiesel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deborah Margolin&#8217;s Imagining Madoff, the play about a meeting between Bernard Madoff and an influential investor in one of his many funds, had a well received reading at Theater J last spring, and was then chosen to open its upcoming season. However, when Elie Wiesel, who was depicted as the investor, threatened legal action, calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/06/new-jerusalem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Demers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a rare instance when a performance can take centuries old philosophy and make it seem fresh, exciting, and relevant, but Theater J has pulled it off with their scintillating production of New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza. The confluence of David Ives’ smart, provocative script, Jeremy Skidmore’s powerful direction, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Ives on Spinoza and New Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/29/david-ives-on-spinoza-and-new-jerusalem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “For my money the main character is not Spinoza but Amsterdam and the Jewish community.” Ives says. “They’re the ones with the problem. He’s the still point of their turning world – the drama is what they’re going to do with him.”]]></description>
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		<title>Playwright Hadar Galron on Mikveh</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/20/playwright-hadar-galron-on-mikveh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Markowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her play is immersed in deep discussion and in some circles in the Jewish community there is anger, so I asked playwright Hadar Galron to enlighten us about the themes of Mikveh, and to respond to the concerns from some in the orthodox Jewish community. Playwright Hadar Galron (Photo: Ilan Bsor) Joel: What is Mikveh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater J season will not open with play about Bernard Madoff</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/19/theater-j-season-will-not-open-with-play-about-bernard-madoff/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/19/theater-j-season-will-not-open-with-play-about-bernard-madoff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theater J will not produce Imagining Madoff, a fictional dialogue between convicted Ponzi scheme criminal Bernard Madoff and one of his most prominent victims, Nobel laureate Dr. Elie Wiesel, because of objections from Dr. Wiesel, the Washington Post announced today. The play had been scheduled to open Theater J’s season this August.]]></description>
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		<title>Mikveh</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/17/mikveh-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ritual is a device by which we give ourselves over to a set of predetermined behaviors, thus eliminating any possibility of choice or decision. At its best, it allows us to release our egos, and rest our minds in the cradle of God’s hands. It is always, though, a form of social control. (L [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Name is Asher Lev</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/25/my-name-is-asher-lev-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Blanchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Skidmore's direction of My Name is Asher Lev fervently captures the passion and intensity of the novel... a beautiful, cerebral production.]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/11/andy-warhol-good-for-the-jews-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/11/andy-warhol-good-for-the-jews-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Kornbluth is the Joshua Bell of talk. His Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is an arpeggio which takes us, forcefully and gracefully, to the land of I and Thou, where we, and all, are loved.]]></description>
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		<title>The Four of Us</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/01/26/the-four-of-us-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director Daniel De Raey and his two-man cast foster a wealth of good comic realism in this new study of camaraderie and competition by the emerging writer Itamar Moses.]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy Queerest</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/25/mommie-queerest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Gold's solo show Mommie Queerest is a wonderful juxtaposition of the mundane, the unusual, and the occasionally outrageous.]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Yonkers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/28/lost-in-yonkers-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Styles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Lost In White Plains” just didn’t have the same ring to it. It had to be Yonkers – or, say it all together now: “Yahn-kahs” – that Big Apple burb of bustling immigrant life into which Neil Simon’s two rascally young protagonists are suddenly plunked down. They’ve been delivered to the place where laughter is [...]]]></description>
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