Coverage of the upcoming theater, dance, music and movies scene.
Theater
How fitting that Joy Zinoman's parting directorial act for Studio Theatre should be "American Buffalo," David Mamet's cunning portrait of small-time thievery. Like the company she founded, the piece dates from the 1970s. And it takes place in her home town, Chicago.
On stage
What 'Helen Hayes Recommended' means
Linda Levy Grossman, executive director of the Helen Hayes Awards, calls the "Helen Hayes Recommended" campaign a tool "to assist theaters with promoting their productions."
- The Liar
A new adaptation of the French farce about a man who tries to keep track of the many lies he's told. - The Dancing Princesses
- Reasons to Be Pretty
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A bathhouse drama that slips on the soap
In Theater J's transparently calculated "Mikveh," a familiar narrative formula -- the theater of clashing personalities -- unfolds in a communal bath for Orthodox Jewish women in an Israeli enclave.
Atomic dance headed to U-Md.'s Smith Center
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is creating a performance using the Manhattan Project as one of the artistic themes. The work, called "The Matter of Origins," will have its premiere at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, which commissioned the piece.
