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LATEST REVIEWS
The Color Purple - Kennedy Center Opera House
     Strong performances in a fine piece but terrible sound

PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Highland Farm - The farmhouse where Oscar Hammerstein II wrote all of his musicals with Richard Rodgers is now a B&B just 165 miles from Washington DC
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History on Foot - Ford's Theatre
     Walking tours of Civil War Washington performed in character with well researched scripts
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King Lear - Shakespeare Theatre Company
     A tremendous performance by Stacy Keach in a high-concept staging by Robert Falls
Mother Courage and Her Children - Scena Theatre
     A scratch-and-claw world of brooding and resilience
Next to Normal - CD
     An exhilarating documentation of the season's most thrilling new musical
Oklahoma!
- Toby's Dinner Theatre - Columbia
     Solid staging, fine singing and spirited dancing
Radio Golf - Studio Theatre
     Bittersweet, disarming and stinging in parts, but a lean final August Wilson installment
Shakespeare’s R & J - 1st Stage
     Worthy work by newcomers as dangers lurk in a Shakespearean tragedy
Shear Madness -
Kennedy Center Theater Lab
    Washington's longest running show
Sleeping Beauty Wakes - CD
     GooveLily performs their latest musical
The Millionairess - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
     Even minor Shaw is major theater
The Seagull on 16th Street - Theater J
     Ari Roth's Unique adaptation for those immersed in Chekhov’s world of self-indulgent beings
The Year of Magical Thinking - Studio Theatre
     A detached, dispassionate solo performance of survival after the death of loved ones