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Black women struggle and triumph in ‘for colored girls…’ at 2nd Star Productions
In these troubling, uncertain times, Ntozake Shange's 'choreopoem' — blending words, music, and dance — feels necessary. 2nd Star Productions’ performance of for colored girls who have considered ...
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Two high-caliber singers star in ‘The Last Five Years’ at Sterling Playmakers
Chelsea Williamson delivers a masterclass in vocal control, and Noah Mutterperl's commendable tenor has an enviable vocal range. Framing the program for the Sterling Playmakers’ production of The Last ...
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At Omnium Circus, inclusion and accessibility take center stage
'So much is dividing us; we have to find more of what unites us,' says founder Lisa B. Lewis. The multi-abled circus plays the Warner Theatre on February 22. The Omnium Circus made its debut in 2021, ...
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In Signature Theatre’s ‘Job,’ a woman confronts the horrors of the internet
To enter a therapy office is to expect to open yourself up to vulnerability in front of a stranger. To enter a theater and find a therapy office onstage is to expect — perhaps with excited nosiness — ...
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Funny and affecting Off-Broadway remount of ‘Still’ at The Sheen Center
Following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere at the DR2 Theatre in April 2024, playwright Lia Romeo’s two-hander romantic dramedy Still, on the possibility – or impossibility – of rekindling ...
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MetroStage in final fundraising push for exciting new theater space
The venue in Alexandria's Old Town North neighborhood will offer a look like no other. MetroStage, Alexandria’s only professional theater, is inching closer to reopening in a new, exciting space, but ...
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Meet the magic of ‘Love and Vinyl’ right inside Byrdland Records
James J. Johnson and Rachel Manteuffel talk about acting in Bob Bartlet's immersive 'backstage pass into the love of records.' DC Theater Arts caught up with Johnson and Manteuffel about the process, ...
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Acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Kennedy Center
The company is beloved because it shows us — viscerally, kinesthetically — who we are as Americans. Long before the words diversity, equity, and inclusion were ever uttered in a single breath, beloved ...
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Comical reading of eight women’s stories of failed marriages in ‘My First Ex-Husband’ Off-Broadway at MMAC Theater
The show opens with Behar (divorced from her first husband in 1981) taking center stage, script in hand, at a lectern and stand-up microphone, then introducing the show and its stars (through February ...
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A delightful adaption of ‘A Room with a View’ at Lumina Studio Theatre
For this script-in-hand performance, the casting worked beautifully, and the direction was exquisite. Some of us might recall the sumptuous film version of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View, the 1985 ...
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Arena Stage announces cast and creative team for ‘The Age of Innocence’
Karen Zacarías brings Edith Wharton's timeless masterpiece to Arena's Fichandler Stage. “I am delighted to bring to life Edith Wharton’s bitingly funny and haunting love story to my home theater of ...
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Victorian lady detectives are back on the case in ‘Escape from the Asylum’
Washington Stage Guild's latest production — subtitled 'A Madcap Mystery’ — is a comedic take on the whodunit with heart, humor, and political resistance. In Washington Stage Guild’s latest production ...