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Solas Nua's American premiere offers an insightful musing on a life only half lived
Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow is a dark tale, set on the eve of a woman's death as she discusses with herself all that was and all that could have been. While this premise might sound dreary, Ms. Carr fills her work with an abundance of wit and sarcasm that carries the play with laughter right up until the fateful moment.
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Ford's Theatre song cycle hits the right notes
The Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, Jack Murphy musical Civil War is a multi-media spectacular that packs an emotional punch. Ford's production offers incredibly strong vocals highlighted by a two-story set, moving stage and backlit by a video montage. The play covers race relations in the U.S. from the outbreak of the War Between The States to the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Songs meld from one to the next in this fast-paced performance, which is best described as a song cycle or theatrical concert.
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There are many moments in French playwright Gerald Sibleyras' touching show about old age veterans where we see aspects of our own everyday existences. Originally titled Le Vent des peupliers, Heroes is a theatrical gem whose main characters, honored veterans of World War I, have difficulty living life without fear or self-sabotage. Yes, even battle heroes have doubts -- just like the rest of us.
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Theater Alliance has produced the world premiere of Victor Lodato's The Bread of Winter. The play, which was featured in a New York Times article back in 2004, has been handed a host of awards (including a Guggenheim fellowship) and even won its author a writing residency in the south of France. Heady stuff for a piece that has resided in a limbo of endless workshops and readings, never seeing an actual staged production and which was written over ten years ago.
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Happenstance Theatre has created a theatrical travelogue of sights and sounds to whisk us off to the exotic Arabia celebrated in Western culture pre-1950. It's a collage of video, verse, music, and dance that the company has produced as a companion piece to their previous production, Low Tide Hotel.
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CENTERSTAGE makes sweet music with a charming comedy
Do you know someone who truly believes they have a great talent when in reality they are woefully deficient? Have you told them the truth or simply maintained the lie to spare their feelings?
Maybe it's cooking. Maybe it's writing. Maybe it's telling jokes. Maybe they insist they have a green thumb, while you glance around and see all the dead plants in their yard. In the case of society matron Florence Foster Jenkins it was singing.
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Dude, Theater J's musical The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall is just what you need to cheer up your recession blues. Director Shirley Serotsky, her designers and cast have hit a home run with this play about turning a classic film into a Broadway musical.
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For a nostalgic look at another time, Monday Night 1942 is happening at the Writer's Center in Bethesda. Written and directed by Quotidian Theatre's Steve LaRocque, the play is an examination of a father-daughter relationship on the cusp of change as World War II rages in the background and doubts intensify about what the future holds not only for Americans, but for the entire globe itself.
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Washington Shakespeare Company's newest production is a quick moving kaleidoscope of energy! Humor, pathos and rage fuel the lives of a group of dead enders whose souls are encased in as much fog as the Pacific coast bar where they sit and anesthetize themselves. |
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