Here comes the president! No, not that one.Chris Jackson — who played George Washington in the original cast of Hamilton — is striding down the Kennedy Center Honors red carpet on Sunday…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:42AMWhat is it like to be Alexander Hamilton? Three guys know. There’s the real Hamilton ( … you can’t ask him). There’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, the literal genius behind the musical you pro…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:57PMWhen actress Gina Rodriguez was a kid growing up in Chicago, she would turn on the TV and wonder: “Why does no one look like me?” The youngest of three daughters of Puerto Rican parents,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AMCan PTSD ever be funny?Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe only a monster would say “yes.”And yet on “You’re the Worst,” FX’s stellar sitcom about two undateable people who …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04AM“Mad Men” is ending. “How can this be?” you might be wondering. Didn’t “Mad Men” end, like, three times already? You would be forgiven for making this mistake. After a storied …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AM“Parks and Recreation” premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009. Can you remember this distant past? It was a time before emoji and Instagram, a time before Blue Ivy and the McConaissance. Tayl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PM“Parks and Recreation” premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009. Can you remember this distant past? It was a time before emoji and Instagram, a time before Blue Ivy and the McConaissance. Tayl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:53PM“The Lion King” is a feat of someone’s extraordinary imagination: yours. You can’t just sit there in the theater and expect “The Lion King” to happen. Not even after all these…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:58PMWhat is it about “Mean Girls” that makes it the most quotable, gif-able, and mash-up-able movie for the Internet age? We called up David Hayes, Tumblr’s Head of Canvas and Entertainmen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:45PMSomeday, maybe, costume design will be easy. All theaters will have some variation on Cher Horowitz’s closet from “Clueless,” and with a few swipes right and left they’ll have arrive…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:05PMSince they premiered, MTV reality shows “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” have raised whoa-so-many eyebrows. A very vocal contingent of dismayed adults feared the shows glamorized tee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:22PMActor Richard Thomas is having a very Washington moment. You can see him on TV in FX’s excellent, espionage-filled wigfest “The Americans” and, over at Arena Stage, playing Jimmy Carte…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15PMThis all started with tiny spots of blood. I had no idea where they came from. They were in a splatter pattern. Dots of rust-colored stains on my soft, yellow bedsheets. Very Jackson Pollock…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:41PMMeet the real stars of “The Americans”: the disguises. The wigs of “The Americans” have developed a following unto themselves, in part because they are so integral to the plot, in pa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PMNothing about “The Americans” is as it should be. Philip and Elizabeth Jennings live in a peaceful neighborhood in suburban Virginia, and they’re at war with the FBI agent across the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PMNo one is required to wear a hoop skirt to the Civil War Ball at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum in Alexandria, but at this year’s gala nearly every woman does. Outside, the wind is so cold that …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:34AMCan a white actor play an Asian character? Never. Sometimes. Maybe. It depends. “Yellow Face,” by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, wrestles with this question under the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AMIf you want to date, you have choices. Oh, the choices. You could meet someone in what we call the real world — at work or at school, lock eyes across that crowded bar, reach for the same …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:52AMMerry Christmas, Backstage readers! It’s that end-of-the-year “best of” season, when every gaffe, meme and hook you tried so hard to forget comes back to haunt you in top 10-list form.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:31PMArena Stage’s Voices of Now program, which organizes ensembles of young people who devise and perform original works of theater, has earned a grant from the State Department to send the ni…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:14PMAt a House Administration Committee hearing Wednesday morning, Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) presented their bipartisan bill to launch an exploratory commi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PM“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Flashdance: The Musical” have something in common. It’s leggings. They both involve a lot of leg warmers. Also off-the-shoulder tops. I jest,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:46PMWonder Woman is the first red-carpet celebrity to arrive at the Kennedy Center Honors. Lynda Carter is looking regal — perhaps her superpower is imperviousness to weather, which is a miser…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:02PMWill Ferrell does not get embarrassed. He’s not embarrassed when he’s dancing in tight, white pants on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” or when he’s ice skating in a rhinestone-span…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMPlaywright Ginna Hoben, a longtime fan of David Sedaris’s “The SantaLand Diaries,” knew she had something special to contribute to the holiday show canon. For one thing, anything she w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMDoug Wilder, director of “Noises Off” at 1st Stage, breaks down the farce like so: Act One: “It’s this meta idea. You’re watching a rehearsal happen. And these actors are a bit bro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMAs with many meet-cutes, actor-director Judith Ivey and Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth’s stories of how they came to work together do not exactly line up. Ivey, the two-time Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:49PMLiz Gossens, costume designer for Pinky Swear Productions’ “Bondage,” had a dilemma. She needed to cover the two actors — one male, one female — in head-to-toe bondage gear. “We …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:25PMActress Kathleen Chalfant, 68, didn’t meet Lynn Redgrave, actress, playwright and original performer of the autobiographical work “Shakespeare for my Father,” until they were both adul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMEdwin Aparicio and Aleksey Kulikov had been together for more than a dozen years when in July they finally could be married. Although the two say they’ve stayed together longer than many o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PMDavid Gonzalez is a divorced child of divorce. His world premiere one-man show “Man of the House (Or: How I Tracked Down My Dad, the Spy)” is his way of wrestling with that, and how he g…
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