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Keegan’s Cabaret is, at its core, a fun romp in Berlin but it also treats on deeper and darker issues that pervaded Weimar Germany during the Nazis’ rise to power.

The dramatized history of Henry V makes for a triumphant play, especially when performed as honestly and skillfully as Folger Shakespeare Theatre has done.

On balance, the production is a worthwhile, well-performed, attempt at providing deeper content to a well-known popular culture story.

One attraction of the stage musical Les Misérables is that it is so remote … and so immediate.

In the end, though, the whole concept is an interminable conceit.

Grain of Sand Theatre has taken Christmas by the jingle bells and presented DC with a charming and highly enjoyable romp best enjoyed with three French hens, two turtledoves, and a few grains of salt generously applied to the rim of a glass.

First of all, there are some truly sensational performances on display here. Second of all, the play itself is a mishmash, a conglomeration of organs in search of an organism.

Despite a few mic and enunciation problems, both the cast and crew put forth very good effort and carried on a thoroughly enjoyable production of Guys and Dolls.

Overall, the show shone out as a piece of great entertainment. Truly, however, as great entertainment often does, it forced one to think.

Whatever its deeper meanings, Folger Theatre’s The Conference of the Birds is a downright brilliant piece of theater. The key words are intricacy and precision.