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Studio Theatre has named David Muse its new Artistic Director, successor to founder Joy Zinoman who is retiring at the end of August. Muse is well known and highly regarded in Washington. Shows he has directed recently -- Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty and David Harrower's Blackbird at Studio as well as Shakespeare's Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre received superb reviews. All were sell-outs. Muse is also savvy about the business side of theatre having been Associate Artistic Director at the Shakespeare Theatre for the past five years.
Muse's path to Studio's four-theatre complex on 14th Street, NW, began in high school in his native Appleton, Wisconsin, and continued at Yale where he received a degree in Ethics, Politics and Economics. After a year in D.C. with Teach for America, teaching Calculus to inner city kids, Muse returned to Yale where he earned an MFA in directing. By 2004, he was back in D.C., working at the Shakespeare Theatre and studying and performing at Studio. It was during this time, according to a press release from Studio, he wore size 13 high heels while dressed as an ostrich. There'll be no sticking his head in the sand come September 1 when he takes over from Zinoman who during the last 35 years founded, built and ran the very highly regarded Studio. Hers are big shoes to fill. www.studiotheatre.org.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture does not yet have its own building -- that won't happen until 2015 -- but meanwhile its temporary exhibits can be found on the second floor of the National Museum of American History at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, a tribute to Harlem's Theater on its 75th anniversary, runs through August 29. Don't be surprised if you see visitors bebopping between the displays as film clips of artists who performed at the Apollo run as background to the photos, costumes (the Supremes' dresses, James Brown's cape and Celia Cruz's wedding-cake like frilly gown), Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" score and much more show biz memorabilia. There is no admission fee for the museum; for details about the exhibit go to nmaahc.si.edu.
Shakespeare Theatre's season ends with Mrs. Warren's Profession and Elizabeth Ashley as the highly-successful business manager of a chain of brothels. Keith Baxter directs George Bernard Shaw's entertaining but seriously moralistic take on the conflict of idealism versus pragmatism. June 8 to July 11.
The Great Game: Afghanistan, an exploration of Afghan culture and history, currently at London's Tricycle Theatre, begins its North America tour at the Shakespeare's Harman Hall, September 15 to 26. The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch, a very moving play by Gregory Burke about the life of a soldier in Iraq, that premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and went on to enormous success throughout the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Los Angeles and New York, will be at the Harman, January 25 to February 6, 2011. 202.547.1122 or visit ShakespeareTheatre.org.
At the Harman Center, seats were hard to come by for NT Live's The Habit of Art, a movie of a live performance of Alan Bennett's play within a play, when it was shown for one night only, May 3. The same is likely to be true for the next NT Live show: London Assurance, starring Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw, July 24 at 2. Tickets are available online at shakespearetheatre.org.
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