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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 around tax collector Alonso Quixano, who, in his own mind, becomes a retired gentleman, obsessed with truth, virtue and chivalry.  Yet to others, he has seemed to have lost his mind after taking on the persona of nobleman Don Quixote.
Dressed in knights armor, and …read more

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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 – Watergate.
While some think President Bush’s ratings are the lowest ever, Nixon’s dropped to just 23% during the peak of the Watergate scandal.
Now imagine sitting in the Lincoln Sitting Room in the White House, on the evening the Richard Nixon evaluates his presidency, and ponders if …read more

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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 TV program, “The Corny Collins Show”.  After auditioning and winning a spot as a dancer on the show, she is catapulted from a nobody to A-list celebrity overnight. 
In no time, Tracy becomes one of shows most likable kids, threatening the status of the station manager’s …read more

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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 comes serious risk.
The story, by playwright David Adjmi, who grew up in a Brooklyn Persian Jewish neighborhood, uses social satire and violence in this provocative story to express the ways immigrants hold on to their culture, while attempting to Americanize their identity in the …read more

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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 that examined the humorous side of American religious dogma and the related hypocrisy.
They return with their humor for the second installment of their “trilogy”, staring Helein and Renee Calarco.  Fear Itself humorously examines the current state of our collective fear in modern-day American culture. (“Not …read more

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