"It was a brave man," Jonathan Swift once observed, "who first et an oyster." Douglas Carter Beane is a brave man, and for much the same reason. He took Xanadu, a 1980's flop-o movie musical " the one which ended the brief movie-star career of Australian songbird Olivia Newton-John"and audaciously turned it into a play. [...]
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:05AM on May 21, 2012