Tuesday, December 18, 2012
To begin, the most obvious question: Why do the Pajama Men wear pajamas? “The Pajama Men: In the Middle of No One” is halfway through its run at Woolly Mammoth. It’s a mash-up of, amo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:41PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
The National Gallery of Art kicked off its Year of Italian Culture by unveiling Michelangelo’s David-Apollo on Wednesday. The statue is on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Flo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
After less than seven months in the job, Olney Theatre Center’s artistic director Martin Platt is leaving. Alan Wade, a member of the theater’s board of directors, is serving as interim …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:56PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Effective immediately, Martin Platt will no longer be serving as the artistic director of Olney Theatre Center. Alan Wade, a member of the Olney board of directors, is serving as interim art…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:20PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Instead of taking typical famous person transit, Jay-Z opted to ride the subway to one of his recent cocnerts at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. What happens when such men walk among mortals? …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Don’t worry about the Ingvarsson-Hemmingsen family. Yes, in the WSC Avant Bard production of “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” their familial relations are very, very dysfunctio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Like the rest of humanity, I have complicated feelings about reboots. Reboots are what I do to my phone or computer when I cannot think of anything else to do to try to solve a problem. In m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:51AMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Whatever you do, don’t use Velcro. “I avoid Velcro as much as possible,” said Frank Labovitz, costume designer for “Dreamgirls” at Signature Theatre. “There’s so much room for …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:30PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
It’s been quite the exciting week over at the University of Maryland. Sure, it has accepted an invite into the Big Ten, which actually has like 14 members now, in case anyone is keeping tr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMMonday, November 19, 2012
If you ask Christian Sanchez, a 16-year-old from Columbia Heights, where he’d be right now if he hadn’t joined Paso Nuevo, the after-school arts workshop at GALA Hispanic Theatre, eight …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Gabby Douglas is making the national rounds with the rest of the Fierce Five on the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions. (McKayla Maroney did a local meet-and-greet on Wednesday night.)…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:09PMNo one is proposing to McKayla Maroney. So far, no one has even asked her on a date. Maybe it’s just a slow Wednesday night at the AT&T store near the Verizon Center, where Maroney is…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
In a fight scene during a recent rehearsal for “The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg,” a Kennedy Center world premiere production for young audiences, director Gregg Henry and his…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Check out which voter groups shifted left or right since the 2008 election in our neat clickable graphs. We've got Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Colorado…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54AMRandom "Woooo!", blares of car horns and cheerful shouts of "Obama!" filledthe blocks surrounding the White House minutes after media outlets declaredthe President won a second term. Support…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15AMOver at Slate, check out the stats on which voters waited the longest to cast their ballots today. The data, compiled via Twitter Search API for tweets including "stood in line," "waited," a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:03AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
According to NewsRadio610 WIOD, no final count on Florida will be available until tomorrow: BREAKING: Miami-Dade Elec Spvsr- NO FINAL COUNT UNTIL TOMORROW #2012Election #WIOD WIOD (@WIOD…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26PMAvik S. A. Roy, an outside adviser to Mitt Romney on health care, tweeted his congratulations to the Democratic party: Congrats to my Dem friends. Best wishes for the new administration.Wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:15PMHere's the list of states called so far: Alabama: Romney (9) Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:02PMThis morning, foreign election administrators embarked on one great American tradition the road trip to observe and study another: democracy. Reports Dan Zak: "As U.S. voters scamper to thei…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:41PM“I’m the big Miller advocate,” said Susan Marie Rhea, associate artistic director of Keegan Theatre. She means Arthur Miller, the playwright for whom she harbors “a particular passio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:29PMThursday, November 1, 2012
This is a story about three women trying to escape to New York. Of the two who make it, only one is real. Mia Chung is the playwright of “You for Me for You,” a world premiere at Woolly …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:16PMA magician never reveals his secrets. Magicians get the deal about secrets the way baseball players know the score on crying, the way members of Fight Club know never to talk about Fight Cl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:16PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Just in case Synetic Theater’s home in Crystal City wasn’t far enough from the center of the city for you, it is about to take a field trip to a truly faraway place: The troupe says it w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:19PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
In honor of the Washington Savoyards’ production of “The Rocky Horror Show,” Backstage is doing the time warp with a few of the rotating cast of guest narrators. Because “Rocky Horro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:30PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Roberta Flack, the singing and songwriting local-turned-legend, is performing at the Kennedy Center in “NSO Pops: Roberta’s Back in Town.” Here are some of the Grammy Award winner’s …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:23PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
Mark Krawczyk’s character in Theater J’s “Our Class,” is “effectively the leader of a massacre perpetrated on the Jews by a bunch of Polish Catholics in the play,” the actor says…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:19PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
“American Utopias,” Mike Daisey’s new monologue set to open in March at Woolly Mammoth, will be presented by Woolly interns as a one-night-only premiere performance on Sunday. Procee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:23PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Jaylee Montague Mead, the NASA astronomer and arts philanthropist who died Sept. 14, will be honored with a memorial service at Arena Stage. The service will include performances by Nichola…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:41PMThursday, September 27, 2012
When Maria Helena Pinto performs in “Voices of Strength,” a two-night program at the Kennedy Center featuring the work of African female director-choreographers, she will wear a bucket o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PMBefore you begin this story, I suggest you turn off your camera, discard your water bottle and silence your cellphone. Patti LuPone has a zero-tolerance policy for distractions at the theate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:05PM 
