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Arena Stage announces the 16th Annual Arena Stage Benefit for Community Engagement: Play On! The event will take place on April 14, 2008 and will showcase a unique blend of sports, politics and entertainment. Baltimore-based playwright James Magruder (Arena's Christmas Carol 1941 and Broadway's Triumph of Love) pens the evening's original comedy, written for and performed by a bipartisan cast of politicians, celebrities and athletes and directed by Arena's Producing Artistic Associate David Dower. The 16th Annual Arena Stage Benefit for Community Engagement is co-chaired by Sheila C. Johnson and The Honorable William T. Newman, Jr. The sit-down dinner will take place at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA at 6:00 p.m. and the Play On! performance at 8:30 p.m. at Arena Stage in Crystal City.

Leslie Uggams will headline a reading of the classic drama A Raisin in the Sun in Boston on February 27th

Horrible staging brings down a brilliant musical in it's lackluster Northwest premiere.

Mark Anders and Richard Ruiz star in this tour-de-force of a two actor/eight character farce.

David Bennett has put together an intimate new production of the Madame Butterfly adaptation, Miss Saigon.

Mary Zimmerman has created a masterpiece of storytelling and imagery in an amazing interweaving of fairy tales.

Village Theatre currently presents a fun, but slightly flawed musical with a fantastic score and a good book, but with a sometimes sappy and overdramatic story line.

In Washington Ensemble Theatre's third show of the season, Steve Pearson and the ensemble have created an incredibly dramatic piece of theatre form an incredibly normal day of the week.

Jeff Stetizer directs Village Theatre's fresh production of a stale show with a near-perfect cast.

Musicals in concert are tricky. Sometimes you hit and sometimes you miss. Sometimes it's a combination of the two.