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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

New D.C. playwrights collective to produce 5 plays over 3 years by Jessica Goldstein

There’s a new player here in Theaterland. Introducing: our very own local playwrights collective. It’s called the Welders, named for Cherrie Moraga’s poem (“I am the welder. / I am t…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PM
Friday, July 5, 2013

‘One Night With Janis Joplin’ is a lifelong relationship for star Mary Bridget Davies by Jessica Goldstein

It takes Mary Bridget Davies about an hour to physically become Janis Joplin. As for the mental and vocal preparation, “it happens throughout the day with me,” says Davies, 34, sitting i…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:46PM
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Backstage: Topher Payne has a ‘Perfect Arrangement’ for a hot issue by Jessica Goldstein

Topher Paynewrote the first draft of “Perfect Arrangement” in 2008. The play, a comedy set in the 1950s about two gay couples who marry each other’s partners so as to hide in plain sig…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:17PM
Friday, June 28, 2013

‘Baby Universe,’ a puppet fable about civilization’s rebirth by Jessica Goldstein

Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, the co-writers and co-directors of “Baby Universe” at Studio Theatre, are wearing what look like grey onesies and gas masks. “The face is really int…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:05PM
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicks off on the Mall celebrating Hungarian heritage by Jessica Goldstein

Can we talk about Wednesday for a second? What a day for Washington. SCOTUS struck down a key element of the Defense of Marriage Act, which was the main talk of the town. A bear — a baby…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PM

Arena Stage’s ‘Janis Joplin’ to head to Broadway by Jessica Goldstein

I’d like to make an announcement of great social and political import: “One Night With Janis Joplin,” starring Mary Bridget Davies and now enjoying its second run at Arena Stage, is he…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PM
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Backstage: Two D.C. troupes take their shows on the road by Jessica Goldstein

It’s that time of year again: Everybody wants to get out of town. Urban dwellers are ready to swap the sweltering city for the seashore. Rusty the Red Panda broke out of his cage; Edward S…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PM
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Olney returns to the haunting ‘Angel Street,’ the play that inspired ‘Gaslight’ by Jessica Goldstein

The last time “Angel Street” was produced at Olney Theatre Center, it was 1950. Olney was 12 years old, and the film “Gaslight,” which was inspired by the play and starred Ingrid Ber…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:26PM
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Taylor Swift’s feminist doppelganger takes off on Twitter by Jessica Goldstein

Taylor Swift is not a feminist. But Clara Beyer is, and she loves Taylor Swift music, and sometimes she wishes Swift would change her twangy tune and be a little more progressive. On June 11…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PM
Friday, June 14, 2013

The Bling Ring: Nancy Jo Sales talks us through the crime timeline by Jessica Goldstein

Nancy Jo Sales is the journalist whose Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" told the story of the Bling Ring crew that inspired Sofia Coppola's new film. From October 2008 thro…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:55AM
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Molotov Theatre Group looks to class up its gory act by Jessica Goldstein

“To be honest with you, a year ago at this time, I was not sure that there was going to be a Molotov Theatre much longer,” said Alex Zavistovich. His co-founders, with whom he started Mo…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PM
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Television binge watching: If it sounds so bad why does it feel so good? by Jessica Goldstein

When “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage swung by “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart knew exactly where to start his interview about the HBO mega-hit. “People are so obsessed with th…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:11PM
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

MetroStage theater is on a mission by Jessica Goldstein

MetroStage producing artistic director Carolyn Griffin says the theater’s 2013-14 season is “mission driven.” It's not about picking a theme and jamming the square pegs of plays into t…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36PM
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Adventure Theatre’s ‘Three Little Birds’ is flying to the Big Apple by Jessica Goldstein

Big news over at Adventure Theatre MTC: “Three Little Birds,” the musical that producing artistic director Michael Bobbitt adapted from Cedella Marley and Gerald Hausman’s picture book…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:16PM
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Playwright Dan Dietz takes Aeschylus to post-Katrina New Orleans by Jessica Goldstein

About a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, playwright Dan Dietz was living in Austin and working as a guest artist at Florida State University. He drove back and forth — not exactly …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PM
Friday, May 10, 2013

Arena Stage’s Voices of Now Festival by Jessica Goldstein

‘Present Tense” begins with a heartbeat. Six teenagers, all of whom have experienced a death in the family, create what the Arena Stage Voices of Now program calls “a group breathing t…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A D.C. playwright’s tale of a refu­gee professor and the artists he inspired by Jessica Goldstein

Jacqueline E. Lawton’s “The Hampton Years” is about as local as local can get: The D.C.-based playwright’s world premiere got its start at Theater J’s first Locally Grown Festival.…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:56PM
Saturday, May 4, 2013

With My Friends are Married Tumblr, a single girl’s lament goes viral by Jessica Goldstein

Samantha Stach had a friend conundrum. The 25-year-old Charlotte, N.C., native left her hometown for a stint in the District and, upon her return to the South last spring, found that every l…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:38PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Folger’s ‘Twelfth Night’ shifts scenario to sinking of the Lusitania by Jessica Goldstein

On May 7, 98 years ago, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat. More than 1300 passengers were killed, at least 130 of whom were American. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minu…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:57PM
Friday, April 26, 2013

Bill Clinton steals the show at the Creativity Conference by Jessica Goldstein

At Friday morning's "Creativity Conference" sponsored by TIME, Microsoft and the Motion Picture Association of America, the media masses assembled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to discuss c…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:57PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Alexandria, Virginia: the most well-read city in America by Jessica Goldstein

Important word nerd news: In its third annual ranking of the Most Well-Read Cities in our great nation, Amazon has crowned Alexandria, Virginia, as #1 for the second year in a row. To celebr…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:55PM
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Backstage: Pinky Swear offers 3 female-written works in repertory by Jessica Goldstein

Pinky Swear Productions is kicking off a three-play repertory Friday, with two one-acts by local playwrights Allyson Currin (her “Hercules in Russia” enjoyed its world premiere with Door…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

'Man of Steel': Will this be better than the last one? by Jessica Goldstein

World, we have waited so long for a new Superman movie worthy of entertaining our eyeballs. We thought the wait was over when that Christopher Reeve doppelganger emerged from obscurity and i…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:15PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

At GALA Hispanic Theatre, telling Roberto Clemente’s story by Jessica Goldstein

Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball legend, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and died at the age of 38 in a plane crash; he was en route to Nicaragua on a humanitarian aid mission. …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

How great plays are (eventually) made by Jessica Goldstein

It’s easy to forget when you see a play that what you’re watching didn’t spring fully formed out of somebody’s forehead. At first, it’s a rough draft, with the emphasis on rough. W…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41PM
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Rep Stage artistic director Michael Stebbins moving on by Jessica Goldstein

After a 7 ½-year run as the artistic director of Rep Stage, Michael Stebbins is stepping down to “continue on my . . . artistic journey again,” he said. Stebbins, who considers hims…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PM
Monday, April 8, 2013

At Hayes pre-show, Ellen Burstyn displays her classic cool by Jessica Goldstein

“Spend the night with Helen!” implores TheatreWashington’s announcement for the 29th Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday night at the Warner Theatre. Now, if I took out a billboard invitin…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12PM
Friday, April 5, 2013

Matthew Morrison, star of “Glee,” on stage and in the studio by Jessica Goldstein

Matthew Morrison, the man who’s been inspiring musically inclined outcasts with his catchphrases andwhiteboard since 2009, will be performing at the Washington Performing Arts Society Annu…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AM

How great plays are (eventually) made by Jessica Goldstein

It’s easy to forget when you see a play that what you’re watching didn’t spring fully formed out of somebody’s forehead. At first, it’s a rough draft, with the emphasis on rough. W…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Theater J’s 2013-14 offerings to continue focus on female playwrights, directors by Jessica Goldstein

Theater J’s 2013-14 season wasn’t supposed to look like this. Associate Artistic Director Shirley Serotsky related how Theater J had selected “these plays that did really well in New Y…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:12PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

At Ford’s Theatre, costume designer dresses ‘Dolly!’ with an updated, period flair by Jessica Goldstein

When Wade Laboissonniere, Ford’s Theatre’s costume designer, moved from Rhode Island to New York City he wanted to be a dancer. He’d been dancing since he was 8; the then-just out of h…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards