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Dancing Green
Dancers like to tell people that anyone can dance — just go where the music takes you. The idea that anyone can dance professionally, though, is another matter. And yet, the...
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Occupational Hazards
How far would you go to keep your job? That’s the question asked (again and again) of Emma (Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan) in Studio Theatre’s U.S. premiere of “Contractions.”...
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Christmas Unwrapping
Angie Pontani, holder of the Miss Exotic World 2008 title and the New York Burlesque Festival’s Best Body 2007 award, wants to give you a very special Christmas gift. With h...
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Again We Go A-‘Carol’-ing
Stage productions of “A Christmas Carol”: a holiday tradition that never changes. That can be comforting — or incredibly boring. Branch out a little (or not) with D.C.'s...
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Letting It All Hang Out
William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a tricky play to impose a concept on, because it consists of distinct stories taking place in three overlapping wo...
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Keep Calm and Carry On Dying
Most of us will die in run-of-the-mill ways. Try out some gruesome alternatives at “A Killing Game,” the latest interactive theater piece from Dog & Pony. Throughout t...
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A Thinking Man’s Play
The characters in Annie Baker’s play “The Aliens” take a lot of time to think before they speak. This makes Studio Theatre’s production a bad choice for the sick or th...
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Translation: You’re Both Nuts
When a North Korean woman in “You for Me for You” frets about “ruthless Americans,” the audience at a recent Woolly Mammoth performance tittered. Her seemingly comical...
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From the Ground Up
“We dancers love to move,” says Lucy Bowen McCauley, artistic director and choreographer for Bowen McCauley Dance. Well, sure they do. She’s making a particular point, t...
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A Horse With Heart
Hit any D.C. dog park, click on Cuteoverload.com or stream the corny-but-kind-of-good romance “Marley & Me” and you’ll witness touching evidence of humanity’s conn...
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The Great Migration
If you think you’ve cracked the code of “The Conference of the Birds” the minute you figure out that the birds represent people, you’ve got a ways to go. In his 12th-c...
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Definition of Grace Under Fire
There’s a daunting task ahead for the performers staging the piece “De-Generate” at CityDance’s Studio Theatre this weekend. Call it an exercise in improvisation or in...
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Ashes to Ashes
When playwright Bryony Lavery, whose play “Frozen” was nominated for a Tony Award in 2004, set out to write “Dirt” for the Studio Theatre’s Studio Lab, she hit on a ...
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Two Distinct Roles, One Performer
Some actors find two-character plays especially brutal, because they rarely get emotional or physical breaks during the show. Thomas Keegan is way more hard-core than those pe...
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Inclusive Movement
Modern dance gets a bad rap for being abstract and obscure, and that’s the first thing that sets contemporary dance company Lucky Plush apart from the pack. The Chicago-base...
