Monday, December 3, 2018
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 wit…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
What 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 probably …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:57PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
When 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, she…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Can 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 find themselve…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
"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 run of highs "…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
"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. Taylor S…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
"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. Taylor S…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:53PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
"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 years: 17 s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
What 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 Entertainment Evan…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
Someday, 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 arrived at a s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Since 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 teen pregna…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
Actor 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 Carter in t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
This 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 02:41PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
Meet 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 part becau…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PM[SHARE]Nothing 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 street…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
No 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 ever…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:34AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Can 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 dire…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
If 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 bo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Merry 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. You'r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Arena 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 nine…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
At 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[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
"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, Backstage r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
Wonder 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 miserab…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Will 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-spangled bodys…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Playwright 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 wrote w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Doug 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 broad .â€�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
As 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 Award…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Liz 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 really don't…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:25PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
Actress 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 adults. Re…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Edwin 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 of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
David 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 grew …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47PM[SHARE] 
