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ELEGIES by William Finn. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
October 25, 2022
DC Theater Arts Review: ELEGIES
An elegy is “a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.” Elegies: A Song Cycle, now playing at Keegan Theatre, is a 90-minute collection of songs that...
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ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE by William Finn
September 27, 2022
Keegan Theatre Announces Cast and Team of ELEGIES
September 27, 2022: The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team of Elegies: A Song Cycle, a celebration of life and music penned by Tony Award-winning...
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THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
August 31, 2022
DCist Review: THE OUTSIDER
This month Keegan Theatre explores the more farcical side of the business of Washington with The Outsider, a comedy by Paul Slade Smith, designed to remind us that “unqualified is...
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THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
August 31, 2022
Washington City Paper Review: THE OUTSIDER
As farce, The Outsider is warm and satisfying in the way that wholly predictable comedy often is, sailing along on the enthusiasm of an appealing cast that director Ray Ficca...
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THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
August 30, 2022
Broadway World Review: THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith, now playing at the Keegan Theatre, is a skewering send-up of all the shenanigans that polls, pollsters, and the media are involved in. Laughs...
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THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
August 30, 2022
DC Theater Arts Review: THE OUTSIDER
[The regional premiere of The Outsider] at Keegan Theatre is a hilarious, despairing, and ultimately heartwarming look at the fragility of democracy and the venality of the politics we force “the people”...
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THE OUTSIDER by Paul Slade Smith. Photo: Mike Kozemchak
August 1, 2022
Keegan Theatre Announces Cast and Team of THE OUTSIDER
August 1, 2022: The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team of the hilarious (and timely) political comedy THE OUTSIDER, by Paul Slade Smith, making its regional...
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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!) by Lauren Gunderson, music by Bree Lowdermilk. Photo: Cameron Whitman
July 15, 2022
DC Theater Arts Review: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!)
To see The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog) is to go on an educational and humorous imaginary journey into space without ever leaving the intimate, cozy, exposed-brick Keegan...
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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!) by Lauren Gunderson, music by Bree Lowdermilk. Photo: Cameron Whitman
July 11, 2022
Maryland Theatre Guide Review: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!)
In addition to being a prolific playwright, Lauren Gunderson is also one of the nation’s best ambassadors for science. Works like “Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight,”...
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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!) by Lauren Gunderson, music by Bree Lowdermilk. Photo: Cameron Whitman
July 10, 2022
Broadway World Review: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (AND HER DOG!)
Science is everything and everywhere in The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!, a bubbly musical for children at The Keegan Theatre that takes audiences on a journey...
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE by Lee Hall, adapted from the screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
June 29, 2022
Washington City Paper Review: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
“I will have poetry in my life, and adventure, and love,” proclaims Viola de Lesseps, William Shakespeare’s lover, played by the vibrant Ashley D. Nguyen, in Keegan Theatre’s production of...
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE by Lee Hall, adapted from the screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
June 20, 2022
DC Theater Arts Review: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Shakespeare in Love is shameless, delirious, fangirl idolatry of the author considered to be the pinnacle of writing in English. Don’t go to Shakespeare in Love for facts or history....
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