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ATCA critics award Qui Nguyen $25,000 Steinberg prize at Humana Festival
A hip bash held Saturday night at the storied Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky celebrated the newly announced winner of the 2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA Award: Qui...
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Annalisa Dias’ One Word More at Flashpoint (review)
Before Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, and even Caliban…there was Sycorax. In One Word More, writer and performer Annalisa Dias offers a bold, mind-bending vision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest that...
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Mosaic’s second season: eight plays in 2016-2017
Mosaic Theater, buoyed by a million-dollar grant from the Logan Foundation, will launch an eight-play second season which will “unearth and investigate issues of race, social inequity, and the process...
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The Nether at Woolly Mammoth (review)
The desires and dilemmas The Nether explores are as dark as they come, so the question for the potential audience member is: are you afraid of the dark? Or do you find it contemplative? If you are...
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Jersey Boys returns to The National Theatre (review)
There’s an odd moment in the middle of Jersey Boys, a throwaway line that you could miss amid the pulsing rhythm that drives the now decade old musical. It comes near the end of the first act, when the...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold at GALA Hispanic Theatre (review)
In this mesmerizing, dreamlike, must-see GALA adaptation by Jorge Alí Triana of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’ masterpiece novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Crónica de una muerte anunciada, one hour and...
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Oedipus Rox! at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (review)
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s original Oedipus Rox!—based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—is filled with cosmic design and some rockin’ operatic heights, but it’s a tragicomedy that has difficulty finding the...
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Community shocked by loss of Dance Institute of Washington founder Fabian Barnes
Under mysterious circumstances, Washington, D.C. has lost one of its most dynamic leaders, Fabian Barnes, founder of the Dance Institute of Washington (DIW). More than an arts leader, Mr. Barnes used...
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Death of a Salesman at Everyman Theatre (review)
A sunny April Sunday and distractions such as spring cleaning, the Orioles or neglected reading beckon. Instead, all of those things are cast aside for sitting quietly in the dark for nearly three...
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Chesapeake Shakespeare takes on their first musical next season
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will do some time-traveling in its 2016-2017 season, with four plays from Shakespeare; another story taken from the Bard’s lifetime; an iconic Christmas story from...
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Folger Theatre to include rarely produced Shakespeare play in its new season
A new adaptation of an old story and a successful adaptation of an even older story will join two Shakespeare plays (one of which is produced quite rarely) in Folger Theatre’s 2016-2017 Season, the...
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Hunting and Gathering at Rep Stage (review)
Have you ever mocked how TV characters of modest means live in apartments way beyond their means (e.g., NBC’s Friends)? Rep Stage has a play for you. The regional premiere of Brooke Berman’s clever...
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Dial ‘M’ for Murder at Olney Theatre Center (review)
Dial ‘M’ for Murder is not so much a “whodunit” as a “will-he-get-away-with it” thriller. But it kept audiences guessing in the early 1950s in London’s West End and later on Broadway. And it still...
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Nathan The Wise: Jews, Muslims and Christians getting along a thousand years...
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are arguing (in...
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Andrew Lippa on God, bigotry and writing and playing Harvey Milk
Passionate. That’s the word that comes to mind listening to Andrew Lippa discussing I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk. There’s a breathless intensity to everything he says. It all matters. We begin...
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The Father Review: Frank Langella inside dementia
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I’ve seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling with...
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Win tickets: Signature’s comedy The Mystery of Love and Sex. Enter by Wednesday
Thanks to Signature Theatre for sponsoring this week’s giveaway. Want in? Be sure to enter by 5pm on Wednesday, April 20. Don’t take a chance on missing out. Enter today. Charlotte loves Jonny. And...
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To Have Done with the Judgement of God from Theatre du Jour (review)
I love plays like this. Really, I just love them. So many thoughts go through one’s mind when watching a theatrical production that makes no sense at all but does so with theatricality, passion and...
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Folger sent RSC out to find the Grail. Found it! Shakespeare’s long lost...
Here’s a fun game: Stop someone on the street and ask them to name a play – any play. I’ll give you 10-1 odds that they name one of the works of Shakespeare. The reason? They’re everywhere. We see the...
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In one week, Hamilton wins 2016 Pulitzer Prize and releases best-seller libretto
Few could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonishing pile-up of...
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