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Show Girl
When it comes to her solo shows, Sutton Foster is the boss. “It’s exciting to have creative control over something,” the Broadway singer says of her upcoming performance...
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Band of Brothers
We’ll probably never see “Iraq War: The Musical!” (thank goodness). The lives of soldiers can be expressed in song and dance, though, as proved by “Black Watch,” now...
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On the Spot: Rachel Cooper
One of Indonesia’s leading contemporary dance groups, Nan Jombang, is visiting D.C. as part of the State Department’s new Center Stage exchange program, which welcomes ens...
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Brevity (Sorta) and Wit
“Hamlet,” like many Shakespearean tragedies, ends in a bloodbath. At the end of the play, there are three stabbing victims and one poisoned queen on stage; add in ...
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Not His Problem
In the never-ending quest to say something new about the plays of William Shakespeare, scholars have categorized and recategorized the 38 works: You’ve got your comedies an...
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Old Show, New Tricks
Signature Theatre’s revival of the musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” does nothing to dispel Texans’ claim that everything’s bigger in the Lone Star State...
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‘Molly Ivins’ Has Something to Say
It took two brains to bring columnist Molly Ivins back to life. Ivins, who died of breast cancer in 2007 at age 62, is the subject of “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of M...
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Hot Flashes of Insight
Patti Gardner has been going through menopause for a decade. OK, not really: Gardner has played the part of the Soap Star in “Menopause the Musical” off and on for 10 year...
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Redemption Play
It’s hard out there for a regional theater. You score an original nonfiction show that goes on to worldwide fame; then it turns out the show was more than a little bit ficti...
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On the World Stage
While in the White House, Andrew Jackson briefly possessed a block of cheese that weighed nearly 1,400 pounds. It was sent to him in the 1830s as a gift from a dairy farmer in...
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Fear and Laughing
As a student with the legendary Chicago-based improv-comedy troupe the Second City, Nicole C. Hastings learned that sometimes it’s best to let your face do the talking. “...
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Let’s Talk About Faith
In political Washington, discourse about religion doesn’t often delve into personal relationships with God. Instead, it’s about control — whether it’s funding for reli...
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The Play’s the Thing
The 2012 Capital Fringe Festival kicks off Thursday, with all its theatrical insanity running through July 29. Fringe brings together dozens of small theater groups from all o...
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On the Spot: David Kaley
The Addams Family came to life as characters in cartoons in the New Yorker magazine, penned by macabre genius Charles Addams. The kooky clan, immortalized on TV and in movies,...
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Taking It From the Streets
At first, Emily Oleson just wanted to re-create an old-time vaudeville variety show, with dance, comedy and singing all sharing the stage. By the time she was done, Oleson had...
