Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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 05:54PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Aziz Ansari is a dozen years into his stand-up career and five years into his role as technophile and wannabe-entrepreneur Tom Haverford on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”. Even though he…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:08PMAfter more than 50 years in the music industry, Patti LaBelle — the powerhouse soprano voice behind such hits as “Lady Marmalade,” “If Only You Knew” and “Somebody Loves You, Bab…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Can you imagine asking Audrey Hepburn to the prom? Fifty-some years ago, when she was the silver screen’s biggest name, and men dressed like Don Draper, movie stars seemed so far away they…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:25PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
The Anacostia Playhouse, originally slated to open as early as mid-March, is probably going to be mired in parking-permit purgatory at least until the end of April, if not the end of the sum…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:37PMWhen the Kennedy Center selected “Jason Invisible” as a play to produce for young audiences, “we weren’t looking for a play specifically about mental illness,” said Betty Siegel, d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:34PMFriday, March 15, 2013
In addition to the five "masterpieces of the genre," as Shakespeare Theatre Company artistic director Michael Kahn called them, STC is announcing a sixth mainstage production and two present…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:50PMThursday, March 14, 2013
It's a big week for the religious crowd. Yesterday Francis was plucked from House of Cards Argentina and declared, via smoke signals, the new Pope. Mazel tov, Francis! And over at the Kenned…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
There are last-minute changes, and then there are, well, really last-minute changes. When two cast members of Signature Theatre’s “Crimes of the Heart” left the show for personal reaso…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:01PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Elizabeth Keckly was a freed slave when she met Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckly, a gifted seamstress, became the private dressmaker for the first lady; hundreds of years later, for Tazewell Thomps…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:40PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Some good news and bad news for the Kennedy Center this week. Good news: “Book of Mormon,” the uber-successful Broadway musical from the brains that brought you South Park, is making its…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Ford’s Theatre artistic director Paul Tetreault didn’t go into season planning with, well, a plan. But when he was about midway through the process, he said, “I would step back [and] s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:46PMSunday, February 24, 2013
It's Oscar night! The night you've all been waiting for! Wait, what's that you say? You've been busy thinking about other things and only just remembered to set your TiVo this morning? Fret …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
After 16 years as artistic director of WSC Avant Bard, Christopher Henley is stepping down, swapping that 24/7 life for what is probably the 48/7 life of a parent of twin infants. Taking ove…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Alex Mills has something to say. The actor, coming off 41 / 2 years of performing in wordless Synetic productions, has landed his first leading and speaking role, in Signature Theatre’s �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:15PMWith her stuffed-puppy purse in hand, Quvenzhane Wallis, the 9-year-old star of Oscar nominated "Beasts of the Southern Wild," was the star of an event with the award-winning Paso Nuevo Yout…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:09PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Congratulations, Grammy performers! None of you were actively bad. Unfortunately, none you really Adele'd this one either. In honor of these many meh-to-above-average contributions to the ni…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13AMSunday, February 10, 2013
Its Grammys time! Get your game faces on, people, and read on for all the information you need to be as prepared as a Girl Scout for Sunday night's show. View Photo Gallery —Kany…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35AMThursday, February 7, 2013
We don’t always say it when we say it. We say the f-word. We drop f-bombs. We say effing, freaking, flipping. The conservative among us say fudge or firetruck; the nerdier among us say fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:06PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
When we last checked in with Joshua Morgan and Brian Sutow, co-artistic directors of No Rules Theatre Company, they had just signed on to be a company in residence at Signature Theatre in Ar…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:19PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Michelle Williams is so sweet and talented, I hate to say she’s a liar — but I’m 100 percent sure she lied to me. I don’t want to have to put it like that. She rallied for an intervi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:54PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Arena Stage, remembers exactly how she felt when she first heard news of the shootings in Newtown, Conn.: “It was as if the unthinkable had happened.�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:07PMFriday, January 18, 2013
What happened to the teen stars of “The Buddy Deane Show” after the program that made them famous went off the air? Check out the latest from the Deaners and get the full behind the scen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:11PMIf you were a teenager in Baltimore in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you watched “The Buddy Deane Show.” When the final bell rang you sprinted home from school, saddle shoes smacking t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
There are a couple of things you should know about Robert O’Hara. The newsworthy thing is that he’s one of 14 people who each received a $185,000 playwright residency grant from the Andr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
The Folger Theatre production of “Henry V” is intended to be very modern, in every way but one. Even though the hot thing to do with Shakespeare as of late is to uproot his tales from t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:32PMFriday, January 4, 2013
The Twitter haters are losing the war. You know who they are, or, perhaps, who you are. Those who dismiss the snappy social network as the Platonic Non-Ideal of oversharing undercooked ideas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMFriday, December 28, 2012
Begin at the middle. That’s how Homeric epics work. There’s no throat clearing, no preamble, no prologue. The poet invokes the muses, and then, BAM, there you are: in medias res, in the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
As Ella Fitzgerald sings in what I’m just going to go ahead and declare the best cover of a holiday standard: “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” Unlike the song asks, however, it i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:01PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Last night, we said farewell to our favorite (and not-so-favorite) scheming, scandalous Upper East Siders and the kids from Dumbo who love and cyberstalk them. The Gossip Girl series finale …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:50PMTo 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 06:41PM 
