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The hero of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" is obviously a set designer in the making. As readers of Crockett Johnson's beloved 1955 picture book will recall, the toddler of the title generates his own universe with the help of a violet-hued writing implement, whipping...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway next spring in a revival of "The Philanthropist," a comedy by English playwright Christopher Hampton....
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When you look at what has gone into Shakespeare Theatre Company's sure-handed revival of Congreve's 1700 comedy "The Way of the World," you come to a deeper understanding of why actors go through what they go through. It turns out little of the hard work...(more)
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NEW YORK -- It was called "A Light Conversation," and so of course most of it involved a long-winded discourse on Kierkegaard. A little postmodern jab in the ribs, that. (We get it!) But if this collaboration between the two dancer-choreographers Wally Cardona and Rahel...(more)
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Steve Martin will always be a bit of a wild and crazy guy, but "The Underpants" essentially belongs among his delicates. This is the versatile Martin in his literary mode. It's an adaptation of an early 20th-century German play called "Die Hose," about a housewife...(more)
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"I wanted to be Janis Joplin," Betty Buckley told the crowd at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater on Friday night. "And my mom wanted me to be Julie Andrews. That's my problem in life." Buckley's solution, as the opener for this season's Barbara Cook's Spotlight...(more)
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Three years ago, Bowen McCauley Dance debuted "Golconda" at Arlington's Gunston Arts Center. There, five dancers performed a lovely little ballet to a recorded CD. Saturday night in Alexandria, "Golconda" finally got the concert hall debut it deserves. For the second time this year, Kim...(more)
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NEW YORK -- For those who thought maybe his next act would include walking on water, here's the news: Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon -- surprise -- has feet of clay. Some have gone so far as to lay the crown of "savior of ballet" upon the...(more)
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“Transit of Venus,” at the Bickford Theater in Morristown, revives a stereotype of women as subjugated objects of desire, making it difficult to believe that a woman actually wrote it.
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It's a long shot almost beyond contemplation: Imagine the ballet equivalent of hockey's Miracle on Ice, or of the nearly winless Buster Douglas setting his sights on Mike Tyson's heavyweight belt. That kind of supreme confidence -- and possibly overreaching -- will be on view...(more)
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Like indulgent parents, the folks at the Kennedy Center poked around the musical-theater store and emerged with the biggest, most elaborate present they could find. So, sure, the jumbo package is on the cumbersome side. And as for the assembly, well, it is hard to...(more)
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