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Review: This Is Who I Am, a pie that binds
“During peacetime, when we need metaphors, we raid the language of war. But the idiom of wartime is food: cannon fodder, carnage, slaughterhouse. Buildings and people are pancaked, sandwiched,...
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Review: A Protest In 8: Strategize, Organize, Mobilize from Theater Alliance
A daughter confronts her police officer father. An absurdist game show tries to determine who is the most Black. A candidate for district attorney confronts her traumatic past. A sex worker encounters...
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Review: Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce Pandemic! with not a twinkle of treacle
What kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction – not my usual reaction to a show by Taylor Mac, which is more often: Wow ( to Hir, and A 24 Decade History of Popular Music...
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Richard Byrne releases his latest: Flamingo: Why Were We Unprepared for...
“I’m a playwright, right?,” DC playwright Richard Byrne told me on a phone call. “I miss people getting into my face with my words.” But the pandemic has pushed this prolific writer and his producers...
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Review: A Very Pointless Digital Holiday Spectacular, just right for 2020...
You’ve got to hand it to Pointless Theatre- the above title alone is just about perfect for 2020, even if it started out as a simple twist on the company’s clever name. As we are all in need of a...
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The real Ma Rainey. Will Netflix do her justice?
Introducing the real Ma Rainey. Ahead of the premiere on December 18, 2020 of August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, it is important for audiences to realize that Ma Rainey is not a fictional...
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Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Never will you see anything like it again.
All hail Ma Rainey. The real-life Mother of the Blues gets star power treatment of such high wattage it can scarcely be measured. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020): (l-r) Chadwick Boseman (“Levee”),...
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Review: “Intimo”– Moody, Masterful Flamenco From GALA Hispanic Theatre
An old-fashioned black-draped dressing mirror is the only prop in the moody, elemental, but by no means elementary “Fuego Flamenco XVI: Intimo,” presented by GALA Hispanic Theatre. The mirror’s...
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Review: From Feinstein’s/54 Below, the return of Sondheim Unplugged
“Being Alive”and “Losing My Mind” – are there any better Sondheim songs to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by performers who have moved...
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Close reading of the $15 Billion for Save our Stages shows relief for area...
Congress has included a $15 billion grant package for performance and related arts, including theaters, in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed on Monday. The program, called “Grants...
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Since Bob Brown Puppets arrived, DC has become a welcoming home for puppets
Puppet theater has long enjoyed popularity in Washington. The region has often generated a vibrant children’s theater scene offering a multiplicity of styles for a variety of audiences. One...
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Review: The Snow Queen from Imagination Stage
Aimed at young audiences, but appropriate for children of all ages, The Snow Queen is a magical first for Imagination Stage – the theatre’s first foray into online production. Billed as an “at-home...
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Reflections of a critic on the closing days of DC Theatre Scene
Theater is at its best when it teaches us something. When it makes us think, and reconsider our stance on an issue, or when it carries us away into another land and time, where characters, fantastical...
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Review: An Irish Carol 2020 with original Keegan cast members
No, this isn’t just A Christmas Carol with an accent; it is a riff on the familiar Dickens structure, transported to the equally familiar stage world of an old Irish bar. The ghosts and visitations are...
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Memorable New York stage moments I covered for DC Theatre Scene
Were there magical moments on New York stages in 2020? The question is debatable – just like the definition of “theater” is being debated – since nobody has been performing on any actual stages on...
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Tim Treanor reviews his life as a theatre critic
After death, two professionals spring into action. The undertaker applies makeup, and puts formaldehyde in the veins, so that the forgetting may begin after a celebration. If the undertaker is...
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Lorraine Treanor – These are the plays that won’t let go
These are the plays that won’t let go. They are there as I drift off to sleep, or, unbidden, come to me during the day. This happens more often now, as work here slows to a close. You probably have...
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As DC Theatre Scene ends – resources and expressions of gratitude
DC Theatre Scene ends its 15 year run today. But we won’t be disappearing any time soon. Thanks to a generous donation, we will be able to remain online for the next 3 years. I know many of you have...
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Free Valentine E-cards for theatre lovers
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