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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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Comedy | Stage
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...
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On the Spot: Veanne Cox
“The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare’s play about two smart, funny women, boasts what is possibly (oh, the speculation) one of the only original plots the Bard ever...
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Elevating the Party Walk
They’re two art forms that have roots in African American culture, but stepping and hip-hop have less in common than you might think. Stepping — a performance style common...
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‘Heart’ of a Movement
In the beginning, there was GRID. It was the early 1980s, and gay men were dying from a disease that doctors had labeled Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. No one understood much ...
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The Survival of ‘The Simpsons’
When the world ends, the people who survive the plague/nuclear winter/supervolcano will still be telling stories. But which stories? “The Simpsons” seemed like a good cand...
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A New ‘Suicide’ Solution
If you could choose them, what would your last words be? “Geronimo!”? “Goodbye, cruel world”? “That’s not so many alligators”? For some of the characters in “S...
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The Taming of an Old ‘Shrew’
When is a play with songs not a musical? When the composer says it isn’t. The Folger Theatre’s new production of “The Taming of the Shrew” has 37 musical cues. But Cli...
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On the Spot: ‘Bachelorette’ Cast
In “Bachelorette,” now playing at the Studio Theatre, four women (from left, Jessica Love, Dylan Moore and Laura C. Harris, plus Tracy Lynn Olivera, not pictured) convene ...
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On the Spot: Burke Moses
Most musicals have three writers: one for the score, one for the lyrics, one for the script. Occasionally one person will write music and lyrics, or lyrics and script, but sel...
