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The DC Traveler

July 16th, 2008

To Dream the Impossible Dream – The Man of LaMancha

The "mad" knight, Don Quixote, escapes the reality of the Spanish Inquisition and his imprisonment in this play within a play.
Set in a prison, Cervantes and his fellow prisoners awaits their hearings and most probably torture and death, while holding Cervantes’ own prisoner-led mock trail.
The story of the Man of LaMancha revolves […]

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June 4th, 2008

"I am not a Crook" - Nixon

President Richard Nixon opened relations with the Soviet Union and China leading to the first strategic arms limitation treaty. He also launched the EPA, the DEA to fight the war on drugs, ended the gold standard for American currency, and eventually ended the Vietnam War.  Yet his legacy is defined by just one word - […]

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April 8th, 2008

Hairspray - April 15-20

The story of big hair and winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Hairspray, is coming to Washington, DC.  It’s the 1962 story of curvy Baltimore teen Tracy, a teen girl with big dreams and even bigger hair.
She daydreams all day at school about becoming a dancer on her favorite after-school teen dance […]

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March 7th, 2008

Stunning - The American Meting Pot

A married sixteen year young woman is sheltered from American life beyond her local Brooklyn Syrian-Jewish neighborhood.
Lily’s restricted life, with her older husband, is threatened when she befriends an African-American housekeeper who, while showing her a new world outside of her community, also opens her life to new opportunities. But with the new possibilities […]

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January 12th, 2007

Nothing to Fear…But Fear Itself…?

The famous words by President Franklin Roosevelt in his first inagural address in 1933 “…we have nothing to fear, but fear itsef…” continues ”… nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance”.   
Micheal Baldessari and Jim Helein co-authored and performed in Sacred Cows at the Conseratory; a funny and fast-paced set of skits […]

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