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Shen Wei’s colorful ‘Undivided Divided’ defies our expectation
REVIEW | Dance piece shifts from objective observation to subjective involvement.
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Virginia Burlesque & Sideshow Festival opens
‘New burlesque’ woos all shapes, sizes, sexes to strut their stuff
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From Tantehorse, surrealist and macabre ‘physical mime’
The Czech Republic-based performance artists will bring their singular style to D.C. this week.
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Theater J, Woolly Mammoth mix things up
Washington’s Theater J and Woolly Mammoth offer a testing ground for premiering new plays.
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A fresh mask for ‘The Guardsman’
Sarah Wayne Callies and Finn Wittrock star in new translation of classic at Kennedy Center.
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Signature Theatre gets grant from county as lease setup is evaluated
The Arlington County Board agreed that Signature was carrying a heavy tax and facility load.
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Tantehorse’s ‘Dante: Light in a Darkness’ (Preview)
Founded in 2006 by Mirenka Cechova and Radim Vizvary, Tantehorse is a physical mime theatre company based in the Czech Republic. The black comedy, “Dante: Light in a Darkness” is part of Tantehorse’s “Dark Trilogy.”
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Theater review: ‘Club de Caballeros’ is a witty tale of love, friendship
Director Mario Marcel’s comedy runs through May 25 at Gunston Arts Center in Arlington.
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Playwright adapts Aeschylus to post-Katrina New Orleans
Dan Dietz’s “Clementine in the Lower Nine” has its area premiere at Forum Theatre.
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‘The Full Monty’ at the Keegan Theatre comes across a little rusty
REVIEW | With a few exceptions, this production is stiff, stilted and halting.
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Choreographers use improvisation, spirituality in Dance Place show
Performance features Christopher K. Morgan & Artists and Skybetter and Associates.
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‘Beneatha’s Place’ adds to conversation ‘Clybourne’ started
Center Stage offers world premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah's “Beneatha's Place.”
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‘Eveningland’ by Christopher K. Morgan & Artists and Skybetter & Associates
Preview of “Eveningland,” a collaborative work by D.C.-based contemporary dance company Christopher K. Morgan & Artists and New York’s Skybetter and Associates.
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An English actress, transformed by Washington
Hannah Yelland married a Yank and settled in the District. Now she's practicing her craft here, too.
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Ravens’ Jacoby Jones learns some new moves — on ‘Dancing With the Stars’
Wide receiver, the final celebrity man in Monday night’s finale, wins praise from friends and fans.
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Kennedy Center concert celebrates composer Stephen Schwartz
From his Disney hits to “Wicked” and “Pippin,” his work consistently finds the sweet spot onstage.
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Theater review: ‘Three Musketeers’ is all for fun — and less for wit
‘Three Musketeers’ is Synetic at full throttle, with a spinning, dancing production that delights the senses
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A ‘Winter’s Tale’ for all seasons
The play, performed by a cast of nine, arrives at Shakespeare Theatre Company.
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From Constellation Theatre Company, a visually snazzy, mystical ‘Gilgamesh’
REVIEW | The production is the first full staging of a published verse play by poet Yusef Komunyakaa.
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Jeff Talbott’s ‘The Submission’: What starts out as sly becomes unbearable
The Olney Theatre Center production has a fantastic premise, but the dialogue devolves.
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Arachne Aerial Arts and In-Flight Theater: ‘For That Which Returns’
Preview of “For That Which Returns,” an aerial performance based on the myth of Demeter and Persephone.
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Music review: Adam Pascal performs introspective set at Kennedy Center
Pascal’s set — more lite rock and jazz than Broadway — seemed primed for a moody late-night bar scene.
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‘The Sun Also Rises’: Washington Ballet’s voyage to Hemingway’s world
REVIEW | Set in a fantasized Spain and Paris in the 1920s, it’s restrained, but full, enthusiastic and great fun.
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Schedule of events related to ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes’
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Your show of shows: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
The National Gallery of Art’s “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes” looks at the stages in a storied life.
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Ballets Russes: The ascent of men
The innovative company redefined the feminized ballet world with its modernism and masculine dancers.
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A stage for the stages of grief
Following one group of kids in Arena Stage’s Voices of Now Festival.
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In ‘No Man’s Land,’ it’s vintage Pinter
Produced with heart but little cash, the play summons demons that bind and divide two men.
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Theater review: ‘Benched,’ ‘Bleed,’ ‘Smudge’
Think of parenthood, marriage and just being a grown-up as bowling pins — the bowling pins of life.
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Monica Bill Barnes & Company puts on a funny, affecting evening of dance
Troupe brings its smart, kooky humor and compassion to the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
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Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘The Winters Tale’
Rebecca Taichman returns to Washington to direct a pared-down version of Shakespeare’s play.
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Other Desert Cities at Arena Stage
The production Other Desert Cities runs through May 26 Arena Stage.
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Love and turmoil heat up ‘Desert Cities’
REVIEW | Arena Stage mounts Jon Robin Baitz's acidly funny family drama.
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D.C. playwright finds inspiration in a tale of persecution and creativity
Jacqueline E. Lawton’s “The Hampton Years” will get its world premiere from Theater J.
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Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble: Intriguing but inconsistent
At Dance Place, particularly arresting dancers perform five works by five choreographers with mixed results.
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Jonathan Pryce shines in ‘My Fair Lady’ gala concert at Kennedy Center
English star’s delectable Higgins is paired with Laura Michelle Kelly’s alluring Eliza in satisfying show.
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Is this the best of all possible ‘Candide’ adaptations?
Spooky Action Theater’s “Optimism! or Voltaire’s Candide” is high-energy and highly inventive.
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Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in ‘Move: from the inside out’
Snippets of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble members in Ray Mercer’s “Move: from the inside out.”
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Isadora Duncan is captured in ‘Once Wild’
New theater production portrays famed dancer as seen through her adopted daughter’s eyes.
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Washington Ballet’s ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises’
This is one of the great challenges facing Septime Webre as he turns Hemingway’s 1926 novel into a ballet.
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For Jon Robin Baitz, all politics is verbal
Playwright's "Other Desert Cities" is produced by Arena Stage after Broadway success.
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A stylish ‘Ghost-Writer’ at MetroStage
Poised cast takes on enjoyably bookish drama about a typist who keeps typing after novelist’s death.
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Washington State Guild takes on challenge of ‘Statesman’
One of the later plays by T.S. Eliot has a lot for the cast to work with, and a lot to overcome
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Wit’s End Puppets’ ‘The Amazing and Marvelous Cabinets of Kismet’
The new hour-long puppet show makes a fanciful playroom of the tiny Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint.
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One-acts ‘2-2 Tango’ and ‘Skin Tight’ share Studio 2ndStage bill
Physical works, part of “Pas de Deux: Plays From New Zealand and Canada,” tell of tricky relationships.
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Folger’s ‘Twelfth Night’ shifts scenario to the sinking of the Lusitania
Director of romantic Shakespeare play sets action off Irish coast, with an “Upstairs Downstairs” vibe.
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No Rules Theatre’s ‘The Personal(s)’
Dark, quirky piece by Brian Sutow closely follows the plot of two obscure movies called “Blind Date.”
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Asanga Domask assures future of traditional Sri Lankan dance
The dancer kicked off CityDance’s program on the traditional and folk dances of Sri Lanka.
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Asanga Domask’s ‘Nruthya Manjarie’
The Sri Lankan choreographer presents a program of Sri Lankan traditional and folk dance, complete with ornate costumes and traditional drums.
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre in ‘Night Run’
Dancers from the Texas-based, contemporary modern dance company perform Christopher L. Huggins’ 2003 work, “Night Run.”
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WSC gives a rare show from three generations of artistic directors
Roaming company to put on
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Memory play explores Isadora Duncan’s varied facets beyond dancing
“Once Wild” is an unusual sort of memory play.
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Review: Flighty ‘Boeing Boeing’ sees a smooth takeoff at Rep Stage
Rep Stage revives a silly, if slow, play about a swinging ’60s rake juggling affairs with 3 airline attendants.
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In production about baseball legend Roberto Clemente, dancing is the MVP
REVIEW | “DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story” is showing at GALA Hispanic Theatre.
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Backstage: Pinky Swear offers 3 female-written works in repertory
Works are by local playwrights Allyson Currin, Renee Calarco and Rachel Axler.
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A frenetic tale of love and mix-ups
“The Lady Becomes Him,” performed by Faction of Fools, is fast-paced but still feels a bit too long.
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Dancer Karen Sherman gleefully mocks artistic hooey
“One With Others” had its premiere this weekend at Dance Place.
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Harold Prince, theater royalty
Signature Theatre bestows its Sondheim Award on one of Broadway's top producer-directors.
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At Toby’s, they’ll be singing through your supper
There is some serious theater going on after the buffet is broken down.
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‘Wallenstein’ marches onto D.C. stage
Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate, adapts “Wallenstein” anew for Shakespeare Theatre.
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Fawna Xiao, Hsin-Hsi Chen offer interesting takes on contours
Artists are showing at Hillyer Art Space through April 26.
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At the Kennedy Center, a Degas sculpture inspires original musical
New-from-the-ground-up ‘Little Dancer,’ directed by Susan Stroman, to premiere in October 2014.
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James finds 1960s just peachy
Imagination Stage’s presentation of the Roald Dahl story is a gnarly reverberation of 1960s pop culture.
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At GALA Hispanic Theatre, Roberto Clemente’s story
Playwright Luis Caballero doesn’t want people to forget the baseball Hall of Famer’s activism on rights.
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Theater review: ‘How to Write a New Book for the Bible’ is moving
Bill Cain’s play at Round House Theatre has empathy of latter-day Neil Simon.
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‘Sometimes, Silence’ portrays a mom’s worry with sons at war
The dance performance at Bethesda’s Landon School stirred hearts, even those of restless boys.
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Motown and the Bard: Doug Elkins’s dynamic combination
Combine Motown classics, “Othello” and some hip-shaking dancing, and you have a great piece of theater.
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Anna Sokolow, again revived by Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company
The weekend performance of “Magritte, Magritte” at Dance Place spoke to the outsider in all of us.
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Dance review: Compagnie Herve Koubi has outstanding U.S. debut
The French-based, Algerian-rooted troupe performed Friday at the Alden Theatre in McLean.
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A Poet Laureate lends his voice to Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Wallenstein’
Rare “Wallenstein” adapted for Shakespeare Theatre by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
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‘4000 Miles’ marks playwright Amy Herzog’s breakthrough moment
The playwright’s family-based story makes its debut in the District, with another play coming in September.
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‘Matilda’ on Broadway: Amazing things in small packages
The musical, based on Roald Dahl's popular book, arrives on these shores to delight children and adults alike.
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‘Coriolanus’ turns on a potent Page
Shakespeare Theatre launches ‘Hero/Traitor Repertory’ with Shakespeare's Roman tragedy.
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American Ballet Theatre dancers in ‘Symphony in C’ (Excerpts)
Company dancers perform George Balanchine’s ballet set to music by Bizet.
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American Ballet Theatre program attests to a company in fine fettle
REVIEW | Ambition was the theme on all fronts during performance at Kennedy Center Opera House.
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Taffety Punk stages a Russian theatrical concept album in ‘Oxygen’
The production at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop backs monologues with District musicians’ sounds.
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Rep Stage artistic director Michael Stebbins moving on
After a 7 ½-year run, he’s stepping down to “continue on my . . . artistic journey again,” he said.
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Review: ‘A Man, His Wife, and His Hat’
There’s zaniness to spare in Lauren Yee’s bold, funny, occasionally flawed fable, at Fairfax’s Hub Theatre.
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‘The Last Five Years’ is worth a close listen
The Signature Theatre production chronicles a young couple’s flameout in a musical of ballads and anthems.
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Winners of the 29th Annual Helen Hayes Awards
The awards were presented Monday night at the Warner Theatre.
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Folger Theatre’s ‘Shrew’ wins Helen Hayes Award for resident play
Signature Theatre’s “Dreamgirls” and Alexandria Metrostage’s “Jacques Brel” take several musical prizes.
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Martin Luther King, and a fateful night in Memphis
REVIEW | “The Mountaintop” explores a soul-searching civil rights pioneer on the last night of his life.
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Watch live: The 29th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony
Watch the red carpet arrivals, get a peak backstage and see the winners of the 2013 Helen Hayes Awards announced live here.
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Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion in ‘Pavement’ (Trailer)
Inspired by John Singleton’s “Boyz N the Hood” and writings by W.E.B. Du Bois, Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement” explores African American history and culture through dance.
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Bowen McCauley Dance in ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ (Preview)
Members of Bowen McCauley Dance perform Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” (The Rite of Spring).
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In ‘Pavement,’ harsh realities are conveyed lushly
Inspired by the 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood,” “Pavement” is a beautiful and severely honest work.
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Theater review: ‘Neville’s Island’ skewers middle management
The comedy, which runs through April 28 at the Olney Theatre Center, is directed with an ear for absurdity.
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How great plays are (eventually) made
Writing award-winning plays takes forever. Rewriting them takes a few back-to-back forevers.
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Kabuki and hip-hop: Corcoran hosts an artist’s mix of distinct traditions
Performance brings to life prints that depict “surfing between two worlds.”
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My Drama
Getting a first play staged is all comedy and tragedy
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‘Raisin Cycle’: Two plays demonstrate staying power of Hansberry’s classic
At Baltimore’s Center Stage, a two-play cycle builds on 1959’s trailblazing “A Raisin in the Sun.”
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In ‘Appalachian Spring,’ young Baltimore dancers are the pioneers
Production of iconic Martha Graham ballet is first by a high school and first with African Americans in lead roles.
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Mr. Schue bares his soul
Matthew Morrison, star of “Glee” and WPAS Gala headliner, talks about life on-screen, onstage and in the studio.
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Cyndi Lauper’s “Boots” were made for Broadway
“Kinky Boots” opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, giving lift to a lackluster Broadway season.
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Taffety Punk takes on ‘Oxygen’
The show is designed like an album’s tracks, with the actors performing their monologues to music.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov at 65: Our Beethoven of the body
Baryshnikov’s delight in performing hits you like sunlight.
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Theater review: ‘Vanitas’
Time hangs heavily on Happenstance Theater’s meditation on art, poetry, impermanence and mortality.
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Theater J 2013-14 season; Folger’s Shakespeare’s birthday season
Theater J’s 2013-14 offerings to continue focus on female playwrights, directors.
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‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ stitches the story of Lincoln’s wife and her dressmaker
The relationship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckly is the subject of a new play at Arena Stage.
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Mary T. and Lizzy K. at Arena Stage
The production Mary T. & Lizzy K. takes a closer view at the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly. Through April 28 at Arena Stage.
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