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David Finkle

March 27, 2018 6:00 pm

Pygmalion: Delightful Shaw, With Only Spoken Music

★★★★☆ Bedlam’s Eric Tucker directs a six-member cast with Vaishnavii Sharma as Eliza and himself as Higgins

March 15, 2018 9:00 pm

Escape to Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett Makes a Salted Musical

Alison Ruff, Paul Alexander Nolan in Escape to Margaritasville Photo: Matthew Murphy

★★★★☆ Director Christopher Ashley lets bookwriters Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley loose on Parrot Head faves.

March 11, 2018 8:00 pm

Three Wise Guys: A New Runyon Guys and Dolls

★★★★☆ The Actors Company Theatre spends Christmas Eve 1923 by circuitously following an Eastern Star.

March 7, 2018 8:00 am

The Low Road: Bruce Norris’ Very Funny Colonial Timewarp

Chukwudi Iwuji and Chris Perfetti in The Low Road.

★★★★★ The Clybourne Park Pulitzer Prize-winner delivers an imaginative, intelligent, contemporary commentary.

February 20, 2018 8:00 pm

Kings: Checking Out D.C. Lobbyists, with Checkered Results

★★★ Some of Sara Burgess play is fun, but sometimes it feels disappointingly incomplete—in its writing and acting and even Thomas Kail’s direction.

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★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him

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★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O'Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets

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