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Monday, March 28, 2011

Theater review: 'Stomp' at the Warner Theatre by Nelson Pressley

What we liked about "Stomp" - and there must be something, for the dance-a-little, whack-a-lot percussion show has been kicking around the world for 20 years - used to be its ferocious energ…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AM

Theater review: 'Tynan' at Studio Theatre, brash as ever by Nelson Pressley

The one-man show "Tynan" at Studio Theatre is based on the great British theater critic Kenneth Tynan's diaries of his final decade - he died in 1980, only 53 years old. Listening to his pro…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AM
Friday, February 4, 2011

'His Eye Is on the Sparrow,' soaring only when Bernardine Mitchell sings by Nelson Pressley

Bernardine Mitchell is playing the early 20th-century jazz and blues singer Ethel Waters in "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," and both women deserve better treatment than they get in the show. Pl…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM

Review: 'Carpetbagger's Children' spill Reconstruction-era family's secrets by Nelson Pressley

The old divisions are still alive in Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Children," a tale spun by three grown sisters looking back over their fractious lives. There's North vs. South, of cou…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM

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