Article: `The Gilded Age,' Zesty but Crowded

"The Gilded Age," the mini-epic that the Acting Company is performing in the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater through Sunday, takes place mostly in Missouri and Washington, D.C., circa 1869. But if Missouri has changed since then-no longer being quite the unpopulated frontier it was-Washington is up to the same old tricks.

Granted, no wronged woman has shot her lover in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel recently, as the slightly tainted heroine of "The Gilded Age" does with a determined gleam in her eyes. But congressmen are still conniving for money and influence and draping their bald ambition in noble rhetoric. Bribery has not exactly passed out of fashion and lobbyists continue to ...

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