de >>> haven't made plans if the weekend, michael toscano says you may want to go to the signature theaterarlington, virginia because a play called dirty blond. what? who? how? >> i will give you a clue, who said it is not the man in your life that counts it's the life in your man. >> i know who that is. >> the same person who is refuted to have said but didn't actually say come up and see me sometime. >> one of my favorites, mae west. >> this is testier of mae west born in 1893. became one of the hollywood stars and created an image that remains alive 30 years to the day after she left us. and icon, that combined comedy and sex and she perfected the art of the double entendre. >> is this is a comedy drama? >> a little dance and song and some drama but nothing heavy it is an affectionate look. it is unusual in that we have three time periods. we have the past. what you are looking at on the screen is contemporary fans who are learning about mae west. we learned about mae west in her early days as a young woman an we see her as she becomes a star and meet her late in life in old age when sh

i'm joined today by my friend michael toscano our theater critic and he says you should head to arlingtonto the american century theater because there is a play out there that is really unusual. tell me about it. it is unusual in several aspects. it is called sea scape and by one of the greatest playwrights. it is not often that a play can win a pulitzer prize as this one did yet no one has ever seen it. that's what the american century theater does. they take great play and stage them. >> we remember him from whose afraid of ginger wolf. -- of virginia wolf. >> it is similar to that. it starts when you have a middle age couple facing retirement and having problems with communication. they meet another couple and the two learn about each over but then it veers off in to a different direction because it takes place on a beach where the first couple is. they meet a second couple. they are bright green sea lizards. >> you are kidding. >> so it is really realism in a sense that the relationship issues that they discuss are very real, but then they go off and there's comedy and satire and a li