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February 6, 2018
Keegan Earns 8 Helen Hayes Awards Nominations!
At a special event at the National Theatre on February 5, 2018, theatreWashington announced the nominees for the 2018 Helen Hayes Awards, including 8 nominations for Keegan in total! Last...
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January 29, 2018
BroadwayWorld: UNNECESSARY FARCE
The Keegan Theatre's UNNECESSARY FARCE is the comedy we all need in these troubling times. Written by Paul Slade Smith and adroitly directed by Ray Ficca, this D.C. premiere will make you really,...
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January 27, 2018
Boiler Room Series Launches WOMXN on Fire Festival with Open Call
January 26, 2018: This March, the Boiler Room Series will turn up the heat for six local womXn playwrights, six local womXn directors, and a host of actors with the return...
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January 26, 2018
MD Theatre Guide: UNNECESSARY FARCE
Part traditional and part bedroom farce, with an appropriately absurd plot that you feel compelled to see through to the end despite the high frequency of groan-worthy jokes, Unnecessary Farce is a...
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January 25, 2018
DC Metro Theater Arts: UNNECESSARY FARCE
With one two-act-long scene, eight loudly slamming doors, and countless head-over-heels tumbles, Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade Smith makes its hilarious D.C. premiere at the Keegan Theatre. Directed by Ray Ficca, this true-to-style...
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January 25, 2018
DC Theatre Scene: UNNECESSARY FARCE
The performers make the most of it. The characters who are supposed to engage our sympathy — [Noah] Schaefer as Eric and [Jenna] Lawrence as Billie — eventually do so,...
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January 4, 2018
Keegan Theatre Presents DC Premiere of UNNECESSARY FARCE
January 4, 2018: The Keegan Theatre opens 2018 with the Washington, DC premiere of Paul Slade Smith’s award-winning stage comedy, UNNECESSARY FARCE. Opening on January 23, this delightfully hilarious comedy is directed...
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December 19, 2017
BroadwayWorld: AN IRISH CAROL
It's not exactly clear what fluids sustained the original Ebenezer Scrooge on his late-night tour, but Dublin native Matthew J. Keenan is pretty darned sure what would fuel the old...
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December 19, 2017
DC Theatre Scene: AN IRISH CAROL
An Irish Carol does a fine job capturing the spirit and message of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale in an evening spent in an Irish pub. No small feat. The play,...
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December 18, 2017
MD Theatre Guide: AN IRISH CAROL
If you need tidings of comfort and joy, look no further than the Keegan Theatre’s seventh annual production of An Irish Carol. This is the second year in a row...
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December 18, 2017
DC Metro Theater Arts: AN IRISH CAROL
Now in its seventh year, the Keegan Theatre’s annual production of Matthew J. Keenan’s An Irish Carol has become a favorite Washington DC holiday tradition. It’s easy to see why. A quintessentially...
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November 27, 2017
Keegan’s AN IRISH CAROL Returns for the Holidays
November 27, 2017:  The Keegan Theatre's annual holiday classic An Irish Carol, written by Dublin native and Keegan company member Matthew J. Keenan, returns for its seventh season.  A beloved holiday...
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