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Oct 29, 2007

What’s That You Say?

As usual, you said a lot of funny and thought-provoking stuff last week. But like LeVar Burton, don’t take our word for it, and read on for Georgetown protests, monkeyrotica running a museum, and GMU fraternities, among other things. —— monkeyrotica would be an awesome director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine: The disorganized state of the Army Medical Museum is an example of vicious circle funding: hardly anybody visits the place because…

Apr 14, 2006

Bal Masque Seduces With Style

Bal Masque, currently being staged impressively by Theater J, says very little with enough flourish and wit that we barely notice the offense. But it also loses some of its flair when it moves away from the mildly mundane concerns of the exceedingly rich and succumbs to soap opera-worthy twists intended to shock. The story takes place just hours after Truman Capote’s infamous masked ball of 1966, a social event even members of high society…

Apr 03, 2006

DCist’s April Theater Preview

So much theater, so little time…that’s what DC theater fans will lament as they view the hefty list of Beltway-bound openings this month. Enough introduction: let’s leave room to showcase everything from Kushner to Capote. Not to be confused with the Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck disaster, there’s Woolly Mammoth’s The Gigli Concert, focuses on an Englishman’s love for women and vodka which features a struggling Englishman in Dublin who is faced with a client with a…

 
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