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Articles by Margaret Friedman
From left, Benezra, Thompson, and Hyman admire their Smudge.LaRae Lobdell
Smudge Washington Ensemble Theatre, 608 19th Ave. E.,...
By Margaret Friedman • April 2, 2013 12:08 pm

Smudge Washington Ensemble Theatre, 608 19th Ave. E., 325-5105, washingtonensemble.org. $15–$25. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Mon. Ends April 22. Remember the shock…

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Dancing for better days ahead? Warren (left) and Thomas.
“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys West of Lenin,...
By Margaret Friedman • April 2, 2013 12:07 pm

“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., 352-1777, westoflenin.com. $12–$20. 
8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m….

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Book-It Theatre's production of Anna Karenina, directed by Mary Machala.
A charming, unfulfilled wife, her fastidious, inattentive husband,...
By Margaret Friedman • February 19, 2013 12:00 am

A charming, unfulfilled wife, her fastidious, inattentive husband, and her obsessive, capricious lover. You know the story, set in decaying…

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Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler and directed by Braden Abraham.
Have you noticed the recent profusion of plays...
By Margaret Friedman • February 12, 2013 12:00 am

Have you noticed the recent profusion of plays about science? Ever since 1998’s Copenhagen (Michael Frayn’s brilliant mystery about Niels…

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Egad! Lamb's Bertie receives a shocking telegram.
Placing an adaptation of a fiercely beloved franchise...
By Margaret Friedman • February 5, 2013 12:00 am

Placing an adaptation of a fiercely beloved franchise like P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels in your theater season is a gamble…

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A garland for Nina: Simmons and Tavares.
This particular Seagull breaks your heart for an...
By Margaret Friedman • January 29, 2013 12:00 am

This particular Seagull breaks your heart for an unexpected reason: It’s a glimpse of what theater could be like, but…

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From left, Altwies, Simonson, and Leggett plan their heist.
Strange things can happen when you set a...
By Margaret Friedman • January 22, 2013 12:00 am

Strange things can happen when you set a small, intimately scaled play on a big stage. Putting David Mamet’s 1975…

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Pugsley as the lovestruck George.
“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s...
By Margaret Friedman • January 15, 2013 12:00 am

“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense,” says the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s…

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Johnson flits like a bird...then falls from the nest.
Set designer Craig Wollam renders the eponymous house...
By Margaret Friedman • January 8, 2013 12:00 am

Set designer Craig Wollam renders the eponymous house in Henrik Ibsen’s revolutionary 1879 masterpiece as a delicate, robin’s-egg-blue facade thrusting…

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Reiter (at right) as a Pea on a mission.
Opening Nights: Sleeping Beauty and the Pea
By Margaret Friedman • December 21, 2012 12:00 am

Kind of what theater was like in Shakespeare’s day (i.e., rowdier).

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Olson (foreground) and Lass as rival sibs.
Opening Nights: Ballard House Duet
By Margaret Friedman • December 11, 2012 12:00 am

Paul Mullin’s bespoke two-hander.

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Opening Nights: Oedipus el Rey
Opening Nights: Oedipus el Rey
By Margaret Friedman • December 11, 2012 12:00 am

Sophocles in the barrio.

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McLynn is armed against alien invasion.
Stage: How They Attack Us
By Margaret Friedman • December 4, 2012 12:00 am

Conspiracy theories and alien-abduction fears.

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Opening Nights: The Habit
Opening Nights: The Habit
By Margaret Friedman • November 20, 2012 12:00 am

If ’90s rock bands can reunite, why not ’90s sketch-comedy troupes?

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Jensen gets his Tevye on.
Stage: Fiddler on the Roof
By Margaret Friedman • November 13, 2012 12:00 am

Village Theatre’s production is sweet, solid, and occasionally stolid.

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Egypt as a sandbox.
Opening Nights: Antony and Cleopatra
By Margaret Friedman • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

More brain than sensuality.

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Follow the jelly: Mosher as Agent Penn.
Opening Nights: Somethin’ Burning
By Margaret Friedman • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

The dinner is wonderful; the theater needs work.

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Gotta dance! Rama and Sita's wedding is celebrated.
Stage: Ramayana
By Margaret Friedman • October 23, 2012 12:00 am

ACT’s Hindu epic is overstuffed but entertaining.

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Star-crossed lovers Abaoag and Kim.
Opening Nights: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter...
By Margaret Friedman • October 9, 2012 12:00 am

A formula for box-office success–and sobbing audiences.

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Bringman as the frontier pol.
Opening Nights: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
By Margaret Friedman • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

Our seventh president as rock star.

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