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Can a huge novel be transferred to a 90 minute play with three actors?

In Sanskrit Janya means to be born and in Korean Janya means around dawn.

On May 20th, favorite Washington actors Sarah Marshall, Jennifer Mendenhall, Kim Schraf, Craig Wallace, MaryBeth Wise, Christopher Henley, Donna Migliaccio and Deidra Starnes will perform in readings of new plays by favorite Washington playwrights Ari Roth, Norman Allen, Ally Currin, David Emerson T

Beginning with the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! this summer, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will offer tickets for patrons ages 5 to 30 in the new Pay Your Age savings program.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/08 for Washington, DC

What is the true meaning of justice? That is the question posed to audiences in A Time to Kill, the world premiere and first stage adaptation of a novel by John Grisham.

Washington National Opera (WNO), under the leadership of General Director Placido Domingo, presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's masterpiece Iphigenie en Tauride in eight performances, May 6 to 28 at the Kennedy Center Opera House.

Despite the fact that American's have been inviting composer Charles Fox into their homes for years via their television sets as the creator of many of the most recognizable theme songs in TV history (i.

On Thursday, May 5, 2011, starting at 9:00pm, Michael Brooker, Principal Psychic for the BBC will be joining John Rossi, Founder and Lead Investigator of the local Shenandoah Shadows paranormal investigative team at Historic Jordan Springs to talk about the vast paranormal activity at the historic e

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Beginning with the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! this summer, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will offer tickets for patrons ages 5 to 30 in the new Pay Your Age savings program.

The Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre fittingly wraps up its 2011-2012 season by paying tribute to their 'signature' composer Stephen Sondheim, with Side by Side by Sondheim, the renowned musical revue celebrating the early works of America's leading composer.

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Former U.

Family Equality Council, America's foremost national advocate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) families, today launched a NATIONAL action center on its web site (www.

Rounding out the 2010-2011 Forum Theatre season is Charles L.

Stars from the stage, and the big and small screen were in attendance at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.

Stars from the stage, and the big and small screen were in attendance at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.

The DC area is full of spring splendor with so many gorgeous trees and azaleas in full bloom, and our local theatres are filled with new colorful productions.

Shakespeare Theatre Company's 9th Annual Will on the Hill, taking place on Monday, May 2.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/01 for Washington, DC

On Sunday, May 1, at 7 p.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is proud to host the return of Chicago's long-running late-night sensation Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) by underground favorites The Neo-Futurists.

Government in gridlock! Parties refusing to compromise! A charismatic leader ruling as much by personal appeal as by principles! No, not the present day - Shaw's 'political extravaganza,' written in the past and set in the future, is amazingly topical and as funny as it is foresighted.

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