<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Backstage</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/backstage?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><description>Backstage</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Studio, Planning a Power-Packed Year]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64509-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64509-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Studio Theatre's upcoming  season is heavy with plays recently showcased in New York that "have to do with power," says Artistic Director Joy Zinoman. The 2005-2006 roster also includes an unprecedented number of works by female writers and two with "huge women's roles," says Zinoman.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Omnium,' Drawing Strong Reactions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45335-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45335-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Audience members are talking back to the actors with unaccustomed frequency during "Omnium Gatherum," which runs through May 8 at Olney Theatre Center. The play imagines a post-9/11 dinner party hosted by a Martha Stewartesque domestic diva. She serves haute cuisine to seven wildly divergent guests  --  the title, according to one character, means "a collection of peculiar souls"  --  some of them possibly based on familiar public personalities. Between bites of salmon and gulps of wine they express a whiplash-inducing range of political opinion. Some of their views could give an audience sweaty palms  --  or loose tongues.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrating Friends, 'Strangers']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26594-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26594-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeanette Buck's play "There Are No Strangers" is about post-traumatic stress disorder and the nature of healing. It is also a thank-you note to her friends in the Washington theater community and elsewhere.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing With Chekhov]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8312-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8312-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Washington theater veterans Nancy Robinette and Edward Gero have never worked together as intimately as they do in Studio Theatre's "Afterplay."]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mammoth Undertaking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55440-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55440-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's first full season in its new space at Seventh and D streets NW will consist of five plays, four of them world premieres.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharpening Its Revival Skills]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35344-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35344-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Arena Stage will present an all-American roster of plays in its 2005-06 season, including two world premieres and six revivals.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of 'Garage,' 'Into The Woods']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15567-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15567-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Signature Theatre will christen its Arlington digs in spring 2006 with a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods."]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Ambitions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42646-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42646-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Blake Robison, who takes over as Round House Theatre's artistic director in June, will launch a five-year "literary works initiative" to foster adaptations of classic and contemporary works at the Bethesda stage.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclamation Point]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24828-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24828-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jerry Whiddon, who steps down in June after 20 years at Round House Theatre, will be honored next month by the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in Sharp Focus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6454-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6454-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This fall, if all goes well, University of Maryland theater students and others will be able to view a collection of nearly 400 video recordings of Washington area theater performances dating back to 1993.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Next Stage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52777-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52777-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Stanislavsky Theater Studio is ending its 4 1/2-year residency at the Church Street Theater and will spend the rest of the season reorganizing to better achieve its mission to "teach, perform and serve."]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Desert' Oasis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33960-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33960-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Washington writer Karen Zacarias is about to see two of her plays hit the stage in Chicago.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russell, Shooting From the Lip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16777-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16777-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The political satirist takes to the Ford's Theatre stage -- coincidentally (or not) during this inauguration week -- to sift through the past year and the election.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back In the Lab]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64454-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64454-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Synetic Theater's Paata Tsikurishvili describes the 70-minute "Bohemians," opening Jan. 14 at Classika Theatre, as an avant-garde "tragic farce."]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Phantom's' Haunts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30325-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30325-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Phantom" lead Hugh Panaro will join five other Broadway lights in "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" at the Kennedy Center Opera House.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oates, In Parallel Universes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15163-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15163-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The prolific Joyce Carol Oates wrote "The Tattooed Girl," premiering next month at Theater J, simultaneously as novel and play.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revise & Shine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62352-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62352-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 86-year-old playwright Arthur Laurents is following his passion, staging a drastically revised version of "Hallelujah, Baby!" at Arena Stage.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Real Loss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41756-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41756-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For Gary Sloan, playing the beloved patriarch in "The Diary of Anne Frank" has become an experience fraught with feelings about more than the play and the world it re-creates.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the Uninvited Wedding Guest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20895-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20895-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two distant disasters and homesickness fueled the imagination of playwright Sean Reycraft a year before he wrote "One Good Marriage," now at MetroStage in Alexandria.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Theater]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6039-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6039-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/backstage</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 7:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The small Keegan Theatre took a giant step last weekend, becoming the resident acting company at Alexandria's recently renovated Old Town Theater.]]></description><author> Jane Horwitz</author></item></channel></rss>