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Backstage: Keegan stars in real legal drama over zoning
The semiprofessional theater faces issues over the proper zoning for its Dupont Circle building.
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Glimpse into the mind of a serial killer in the play ‘Normal’
The Molotov Theatre Group takes a suitably creepy look at Peter Kurten, the Vampire of Dusseldorf.
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‘Water by the Spoonful’ dispenses measured fury
Quiara Alegria Hudes’s ambitious, yet difficult to embrace, tale of a family’s anguish gets area premiere at Studio.
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Fabulous ‘American Legends’ from Joffrey
Ballet troupe offered a fantastic parade of international pas de deux at George Mason.
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World Stages: ‘Adventures of Robin Hood,’ from Scotland
Two actors play many roles in Visible Fictions’ antic production about Sherwood Forest’s merry outlaw.
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World Stages: ‘Incendios,’ from Mexico
Wajdi Mouawad’s play is about adult twins who discover secrets in their mother’s past.
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At World Stages: ‘Death and the Maiden,’ from Chile
Ariel Dorfman’s drama is about a former Chilean political prisoner who meets her suspected torturer.
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At World Stages: ‘Rupert,’ from Australia
The Melbourne Theatre Company produces David Williamson’s play about media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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World Stages: ‘Fallujah,’ from Iraq and Canada
A chamber opera explores the aftershocks in a marine’s life after surviving the horrific battle in Iraq.
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World Stages: ‘A Great Wilderness,’ from the United States
A staged reading of a new play from on-the-rise dramatist Samuel D. Hunter.
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World Stages: ‘Les Souffleurs Commandos Poétiques’
“Les souffleurs” means “whisperers,” and that’s what will occur in this French-Japanese collaboration.
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At World Stages: ‘Savannah Bay,’ from France
Marguerite Duras’s 1982 play is revived by Thé âtre de l’Atelier.
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At World Stages: ‘Green Snake,’ from China
The National Theatre of China adapts a myth about two sister snakes who become human and try to find love.
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At World Stages: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Shakespeare’s fairy-fueled comedy, from the English and South African minds behind “War Horse.”
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World Stages: ‘Solomon and Marion,’ from South Africa
Lara Foot’s play, produced by Cape Town-based Baxter Theatre Centre, details clash of distinct South Africas.
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World Stages: ‘Harmsaga,’ from Iceland
In the National Theatre of Iceland’s show, a young couple with two children find themselves adrift online.
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World Stages: ‘Not by Bread Alone,’ from Israel
Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble gives audiences a sense of being both deaf and blind.
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World Stages: ‘The Suit,’ from France
Peter Brook’s Paris-based Thé âtre des Bouffes du Nord performs this South African play.
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Bigger, bolder isn’t always better than smaller, well-crafted
Bowen McCauley Dance program brought an altogether pleasing work to the Atlas Intersections Festival.
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‘War Horse’ collaborators team up for Shakespeare
Tom Morris and Adrian Kohler will bring “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the Kennedy Center in March.
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Theater review: ‘I and You’
Lauren Gunderson’s 80-minute, two-character play at the Olney Theatre Center is sharp and funny.
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In Beatles, Stones homage, all you need is ballet about love
The best part of Washington Ballet’s “British Invasion” is Wheeldon’s work “There Where She Loved.”
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A guide to the World Stages festival
This month, the Kennedy Center will resonate with the voices and visages of actors from all over the planet.
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‘Stupid F---ing Bird’ taking flight again
The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is staging a remount of an adaptation of “The Seagull.”
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Bryan Cranston, making good as LBJ
Cranston stars as the 36th president in Broadway's "All the Way"
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Bryan Cranston in Broadway’s ‘All the Way’ (Trailer)
Actor Bryan Cranston stars as Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s Broadway play ‘All the Way’ at Neil Simon Theatre.
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‘MAMMA MIA!’ at The National Theatre (Trailer)
“Mamma Mia!” is by Catherine Johnson, music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Through March 9 at The National Theatre.
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The Twinkie of musicals, ‘Mamma Mia!,’ arrives in D.C.
If you’ve seen “Mamma Mia!” before, you’ve seen it done better than this. But it’s not a total rip-off.
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Flamenco Festival opens with a flurry of footwork
The Gala Flamenca at the Lisner Auditorium featured three dance generations and lots of talent.
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‘Beaches’ at Signature Theatre (Trailer)
Signature Theatre presents the musical “Beaches” by Iris Rainer Dart through March 30.
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“Beaches” the musical at Signature Theatre
Iris Rainer Dart’s novel, made famous by the 1988 movie, is a little less weepy as a musical at Signature.
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Backstage: Broadway promoter finds audience at church
Visits by performers to historically black congregations aim to draw in theater fans.
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Sara Barker shines in colorful, expressive ‘Orlando’
Barker conveys the near-overload of awareness and observation that are Orlando’s burden and joy.
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Compagnie Kafig flips and lopes gracefully
Mourad Merzouki’s Franco-Brazilian troupe brilliantly melds Brazilian urban dance and capoeira.
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Salem’s reliable sorceresses
A new generation of writers has discovered the infamous witch trials as the all-purpose American allegory.
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Washington Ballet gets ready to rock
With its Beatles-Rolling Stones program, the company continues something of a tradition.
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Pulitzer-winning playwright has a restless soul
‘Water by the Spoonful,’ part of Quiara Alegria Hudes’s trilogy, opens March 5 at the Studio Theatre.
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WSC Avant Bard’s ‘Orlando’: Which gender fits the playbill?
WSC production is serendipitously timed to Facebook announcement of new ways for users to define gender.
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Prince George’s and Southern Maryland Going Out Guide
A listing of events in Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland for Feb. 27-March 5, 2014
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Grim reality meets supernatural mystery in ‘Pluto’
The show at Forum Theatre is part of a National New Play Network’s “rolling” world premiere.
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A quirky nurse and other eccentrics from Teatro de la Luna
Three women share their obsessions in “La Vida Que Me Das ... y no me alcanza” at Gunston Arts Center.
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Coming to a theater near you: Scalia! The play!
“The Originalist,” a play about Justice Antonin Scalia, is in Arena Stage's 2014-15 season.
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‘Seminar’ goes deep inside the writer’s workshop
At Round House Theatre, Teresa Rebeck depicts the sacred space of the writer’s workshop.
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A mostly thrilling take on Shaw’s ‘Back to Methuselah’
Washington Stage Guild uses little more than good clean speech to stage the startlingly relevant play.
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‘The Cole Porter Project’ sends up the Beltway crowd
The Source Theatre’s puckish production, which runs through March 9, romps through the Porter playbook.
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LeeSaar dancers show lots of muscle, perhaps less heart
At Rockville’s American Dance Institute, female troupe’s moves are muscular but hardly approachable.
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‘Is this crazy?’ Washington Stage Guild tackles a Shaw epic.
The playwright’s five-play cycle “Back to Methuselah” is being broken into three parts over three seasons.
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‘An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’
‘An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’ reunites the two award-winning Broadway stars for a stage performance at the Kennedy Center. Through Feb. 23.
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A marquee lineup at dance festival hosted by George Mason
American College Dance Festival Association’s list of speakers is cause enough to sit up and pay attention.
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Prince George’s and Southern Maryland Going Out Guide
A listing of events in Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland for Feb. 20-26, 2014
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‘American Idiot’ at National Theatre (Trailer)
The National Theatre presents the musical “American Idiot,” based on the Grammy Award-winning Green Day album with the same name.
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Imagination Stage makes gold with ‘Rumpelstiltskin’
Imagination Stage’s adaptation foregrounds transformations of a theatrical kind.
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‘American Idiot’: Plenty of energy, but not much electricity
The cast, full of recent college grads making tour debuts, is competent but rarely commanding.
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Last week’s mammoth snow didn’t deter Woolly
Woolly Mammoth Theatre was the only troupe in town that decided “on with the show” last snowy Thursday.
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‘The Wedding Dress’ conjures a tiring dreamscape
The performance of Nelson Rodrigues’s 1943 play runs through March 9 at Spooky Action Theater.
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Yo, Margo! A D.C. actress fights her way to the top
American University and Glenelg High grad Margo Seibert makes her Broadway debut as Adrian in "Rocky."
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‘Wedding Dress’: Lurid, avant-garde Brazilian drama
Spooky Action Theater plans mini-festival to raise awareness of 20th-century writer Nelson Rodrigues.
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‘We Are Proud to Present ...’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The production “We Are Proud to Present ...” by Jackie Sibblies Drury is now playing at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through March 9.
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At Woolly Mammoth, a wild and windy ‘We Are Proud’
The new show at Woolly Mammoth lives up to a title that’s long and full of fanfare.
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Of ‘Beaches’ and high C’s
Iris Rainer Dart has a soft spot for musical theater, now she adapts her most famous piece to the stage.
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What makes the stars cry?
Local theater folks talk about the show songs that make them swoon.
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Tiny D.C. theater gets unexpected buzz for ‘Sweeney Todd’
How will they stage the play? “We’re figuring that out right now,” the producing artistic director said.
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Review: ‘Orphie and the Book of Heroes’ is an epic success
The Kennedy Center Family Theater production puts an infectiously fun, girl-power spin on Greek mythology.
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Bowen McCauley Dance’s bracing ‘An Evening to Love’
The company’s world premiere of “Timed Connections” outshone its other premiere, “Far Behind.”
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Obama to nominate Jane Chu to chair NEA
The position has remained vacant for more than a year.
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‘Souvenir’ traces career of infamously bad opera singer
The enjoyable if occasionally dawdling production at 1st Stage runs through March 2.
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Prince George’s and Southern Maryland Going Out Guide
A listing of events in Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland for Feb. 13-19, 2014
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Breaking a leg for real leads to Theater J recasting dash
When an actor in “Yellow Face” broke his ankle, Theater J’s artistic director Ari Roth took to the stage.
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‘Seminar’: Savvy, satisfying and great fun at Round House
Four hopeful young fiction writers sign on for a seminar with a famously acidic teacher. Will any egos survive?
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‘The Piano Teacher’ at Columbia’s Rep Stage
The central figure in the 2007 drama is driven by a heart of darkness.
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‘La Señorita de Tacna’: An affecting family drama
The 1981 play by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is being staged at GALA Hispanic Theatre.
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‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ (Trailer)
Kathleen Turner stars in “Mother Courage and Her Children” at Arena Stage.
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Ira Glass and modern dance at Lisner Auditorium
Choreographer Monica Bill Barnes and dancer Anna Bass in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.”
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A no-nonsense ‘Mother Courage’
Bertolt Brecht’s sardonic tale of a practically minded camp follower is revived at Arena Stage.
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Dana Tai Soon Burgess’s dances revel in the still moments
The program included two new pieces and two older pieces: “Leaving Pusan” and “Khaybet.”
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Dog & Pony’s ‘Beertown’ makes a splash in New York City
The D.C. company has taken its production to the Big Apple for an 18-perfomance run.
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Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury hears Africa calling
Her “We Are Proud to Present. . .,” exploring culture and colonialism, will be produced by Woolly Mammoth.
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Vargas Llosa muses on fiction, theater, at GALA Theatre
Mario Vargas Llosa’s first literary love was the theater. GALA presents his “The Young Lady from Tacna.”
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At Civil War Ball, waltzing back to a very different time
Gadsby’s Tavern Museum in Alexandria hosts an annual dance that evokes a bygone elegance.
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It’s Ira Glass, and he brought dancers
“This American Life” host’s show at Lisner Auditorium features his stories and dancing, naturally.
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NextStop offers chilling, clever take on ‘Richard III’
The production, employing deaf and hearing actors, has a bold approach and ingenious problem-solving.
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Prince George’s and Southern Maryland Going Out Guide
A listing of events in Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland for Feb. 6-12, 2014
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‘Ella’ has plenty of swing thanks to Freda Payne’s singing
The MetroStage production about Ella Fitzgerald has a stilted script but the music more than makes up for it.
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Theater J’s ‘Yellow Face’ (Trailer)
David Henry Hwang presents “Yellow Face” at Theater J. Directed by Natsu Onoda Power. Through Feb. 23.
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‘Yellow Face’: Red-meat theater
David Henry Hwang's self-deprecating comedy of ethnic confusion takes stage at Theater J.
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Alvin Ailey falters with uneasy ‘Chroma’
The company may never execute the “Chroma” duets perfectly, but its take on iconic “Revelations” is stunning.
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In ‘Earnest,’ it’s important to come to work hungry
Anthony Roach has special problems to deal with in Shakespeare Theatre’s production of the Oscar Wilde play.
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‘The Best Man’ at Keegan Theatre saps the life of the party
Gore Vidal’s political drama has been produced with listless performances and unimaginative staging.
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Kennedy Center gets $1 million gift from Newman’s Own
Donation helps endow “Any Given Child” program, an arts-education program for K-8 grade students.
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Review: ‘How to Succeed’ at Olney Theatre Center
A high-spirited revival of the best kind of old-school musical comedy.
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Review: Single Carrot Theater presents ‘The Flu Season’
The production poses tantalizing questions about love and life.
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Folger Theatre timelapse for ‘Richard III’
Folger Theatre transformed into an in-the-round venue for the production of “Richard III.”
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‘Richard III,’ freshly unearthed at Folger Theatre
With audiences — and a sense of death — all around, Folger stages a bloody history play.
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Spring Preview: Dance
The Russian company, beset by its own battles in the past year, will bring the betrayal-themed “Giselle” to D.C.
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Spring Preview: Theater
What's exciting for the spring on the theater front, led by the Kennedy Center’s “World Stages” festival.
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Washington Ballet performs jazz- and blues-themed works
A trio of ballets evoke from the company some of its most instinctive, deeply felt dancing in recent years.
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‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at the Kennedy Center
REVIEW | Tony-winning musical takes the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up and runs with it.
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‘Violet’: Dixie in a minor key
REVIEW | The '90s off-Broadway musical about a disfigured woman is revived by Ford's Theatre.
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Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ is magical
REVIEW | The production is a triumph for what is still proudly tender and harmonious in Russian ballet.
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Studio Theatre to replace ‘Beats’ with ‘Grounded’
“Grounded,” about an ex-fighter pilot’s career change, was a bit at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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