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September 7, 2016
What We’re Up Against Kicks Off Keegan’s 20th Anniversary Season
September 2, 2016: The Keegan Theatre opens its 20th season with the regional premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against, a scathing, ferocious comedy about sexism in the workplace....
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August 25, 2016
Washington City Paper: The Lonesome West
The Irish-focused Keegan Theatre’s sublime new production of The Lonesome West affirms yet again the behavioral insight that makes McDonagh’s casually hard-hearted work so hard to dismiss.
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August 18, 2016
Magic Time: The Lonesome West
McDonagh scripts their savage and macabre verbal sparring. Director Mark A. Rhea paces each round with knockout punch. Keenan and Smith play high-risk foils as if on a high-tension high...
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August 16, 2016
The Georgetowner: The Lonesome West
“The Lonesome West” is getting a scaldingly focused production at the Keegan Theatre near Dupont Circle, directed with keen respect for the language of the play by Mark A. Rhea.
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August 15, 2016
MD Theatre Review: The Lonesome West
Cleverly written and directed and enthusiastically acted, The Lonesome West contrasts romping juvenile rough-housing with some of the weightiest of adult themes and questions, offering the audience multiple layers of...
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August 12, 2016
DC Metro Theatre Arts: The Lonesome West
Director Mark A. Rhea knows what he wants to do with The Lonesome West. He’s got hip contemporary music, dancing scene changers that give the audience a show, and the...
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August 12, 2016
Broadway World: The Lonesome West
Rhea has assembled a stellar cast ... Keegan Theatre's production of The Lonesome West should be truly satisfying, especially now that the dog days of summer are upon us.
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August 12, 2016
Wall Street Journal: The Lonesome West
This production, directed by Mark A. Rhea, the Keegan’s founder, leaves nothing whatsoever to be desired. It’s serious when it needs to be and funny the rest of the time,...
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August 10, 2016
A Beast in a Jungle: The Lonesome West
The play wraps up the company's 19th season -- it was my first visit to the surprisingly comfortable theater off Dupont Circle, but it won't be the last. See it.
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August 10, 2016
The Washington Post: The Lonesome West
Never underestimate the power of tonal contrast. Much of Martin McDonagh’s black comedy “The Lonesome West” depicts the simmering hostility between two Irish brothers: Coleman and Valene Connor have long...
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August 10, 2016
DC Theatre Scene: The Lonesome West
The Lonesome West is at bottom a character study, and Keenan and Smith create two characters so delicious in their detestability that you will be a long time forgetting them.
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August 10, 2016
DC Metro Theatre Arts: The Lonesome West
Do not miss Keegan Theatre’s scintillating and thrilling production of The Lonesome West!. The Keegan Theatre has produced an emotional, subversive, and darkly comic masterpiece!
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