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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Review: 'A Late Morning (In America) With Ronald Reagan' at the Contemporary American Theater Festival by Andrew Walker White

Truth be known, there is much about Ronald Reagan that is eminently unlikeable: his shameless embrace of the southern, "State's Rights" strategy, his contempt for social welfare programs, hi…

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Review: 'Berta, Berta' at the Contemporary American Theater Festival by Andrew Walker White

"The past is never dead.Â It's not even past." –William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. Of the many great moments in the late August Wilson's Twentieth Century cycle, the most powerful…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Review: 'The Cake' at the Contemporary American Theater Festival by Andrew Walker White

The Contemporary American Theatre Festival is off to a rocking start, and with the local premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's ripped-from-the-Supreme-Court-blotter comedy The Cake, the Festival m…

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Sunday, May 27, 2018

What To Expect From This Year's Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) by Andrew Walker White

Ah, summer " that fabled time of fireflies and lemonade stands, seersucker suits with wilting collars, tubing along a quiet stream, and of course — theatre. Â Â Live theatre. Â …

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Monday, October 23, 2017

Review: 'Electra' at 4615 Theatre Company by Andrew Walker White

Back in ancient times, tragedy was prized for its cathartic experience; fear, rage, pity, the whole range of human emotions would run through you, and on a grand scale, too, with thousands p…

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Review: The In Series: Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' at the D.C. Scottish Rite Temple by Andrew Walker White

If you're a Mozart fan " and if you aren't, you should be " you probably have your favorite 'conspiracy theory' about why the composer met his untimely death at the age of 35. Thanks to Pete…

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Opinion: Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and the Fine Art of Dissent by Andrew Walker White

It's a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that Shakespeare was writing …

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Monday, June 5, 2017

Review: 'Doubt: A Parable' at SeeNoSun OnStage by Andrew Walker White

We live in a world where self-righteous anger is the new god. It's getting to the point where we can barely shift our torches and pitchforks aside long enough to tweet or post on Facebook. W…

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Monday, April 17, 2017

Review: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at McLean Community Players by Andrew Walker White

Spring has sprung, the dogwoods are in full flower, and there's a truly delicious cat-fight to be had in McLean"take my word for it. Now that the solemnities of the season have been properly…

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Review: 'Three Sisters' at The Studio Theatre by Andrew Walker White

As improbable as it may sound, the plays of Anton Chekhov are vivid proof that there is such a thing as joyful melancholy. You can commune with his characters' misfortunes and acknowledge th…

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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Review: 'Bigoudi' at Atlas Performing Arts Center by Andrew Walker White

Is it just me or do the French have a way of taking the most mundane, everyday objects and making poetry out of them?Â Consider the humble plastic hair-curler, those tiny, porous tubes tha…

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