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Arena Stage will once again make history with ARENA RESTAGED, a massive, two-year festival celebrating the rich mosaic of our nation's voices.

Arena Stage presents Charles Ludlam's comic masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep. This clever, quick-change marathon ransacks literary, cinematic and pop culture as it satirizes everything from Hitchcock's Rebecca and classic horror film The Mummy's Curse to Wuthering Heights and Shakespeare. Arena Stage is excited to welcome back Brad Oscar (Broadway's Spamalot and The Producers, Arena's Cabaret and Damn Yankees) and J. Fred Shiffman (The Arthur Miller Festival, She Loves Me, Cabaret) as they portray all of the characters--men, women and monsters--in this gender-bending 'tour de force.' The Mystery of Irma Vep runs June 6 - July 13 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. The press opening performance is Thursday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m.

In Neva Small's solo show her career full of meaty roles in unsuccessful musicals is glossed over in such a pixyish, upbeat manner that you might find yourself perpetually wondering what she's leaving out.

Piper Goodeve and Jessica Grove from Theatreworks' Anne of Green Gables, along with composer Nancy Ford discuss the show and do two exclusive, in-studio performances from the show.

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The Roundabout's new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera might well have been the most shocking and innovative theatre event of the 1967-68 Broadway season