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Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth

Trading the temples of Thebes for the streets of Los Angeles, playwright Luis Alfaro meditates on the inexorably violent fates of Latino gang members in "Oedipus el Rey," his intense and muscular riff...

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Theater review: 'The Weir' presented by Keegan Theatre

The actors on the small, grimy pub set at the Church Street Theater are taking a decidedly casual approach to "The Weir." No blarney here; no Irish boyo flamboyance, despite the fact that Conor...

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Theater review: Forum Theatre's dismal 'One Flea Spare'

Although it has been described as a black comedy, Forum Theatre's "One Flea Spare" is hardly what you'd call a barrel of laughs. The setting is a quarantined home in the London of 1665, when bubonic...

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Theater review: 'Juno and the Paycock' at Washington Shakespeare Company

The friskiness of the Washington Shakespeare Company's "Juno and the Paycock" peaks somewhere in the middle, and in the lanky form of Christopher Henley as the proverb-spouting layabout Joxer Daly....

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Theater review: Keegan Theatre's world premiere of 'Basra Boy'

Brawling, cocaine-snorting, sabotaging a marching band's percussion section: Speedy, the 18-year-old protagonist of "Basra Boy," gets up to a heck of a lot of mischief in contemporary East Belfast.

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Nelson Pressley reviews Olney's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'

Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals nearly always arrive overdone; that's partly why they've made a mint. Still, it's a surprise to see the frantic Lloyd Webber show now at the Olney Theatre Center, because...

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'Samanvaya': Harmony in motion, sealed with a look

As many Western forms of dance, in their struggle to retain audience interest, ratchet up displays of physical force, it is refreshing to see a pair of Indian dancers who can thrill a crowd with the...

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