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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Irish performing arts company re-enters the DC theater world by Peter Marks

Under the new direction of Rex Daugherty, "Wild Sky," staged in private homes, is warm and inventive.

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Monday, May 2, 2016

'Disgraced' asks provocative questions about being Muslim in America by Peter Marks

Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer-winning drama is mounted by Arena Stage.

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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Bring the tissue box to the extraordinary 'Dear Evan Hansen' by Peter Marks

REVIEW || Following its sold-out Arena Stage premiere, the musical by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Steven Levenson triumphantly opens in New York.

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Friday, April 29, 2016

From 'Orange' to 'Purple': the multi-hued performance ride of Danielle Brooks by Peter Marks

First in Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" and now on Broadway in "The Color Purple," Brooks manages to distinguish herself in large ensembles.

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

'Shuffle Along': the Broadway musical as teachable art by Peter Marks

REVIEW || Eagerly anticipated, the musical features the dynamic choreography of Savion Glover

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne take 'Long Day's Journey' out for its harrowing ride by Peter Marks

REVIEW|| Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr. star in the definitive American dysfunctional family play

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'Tuck Everlasting' is strictly for the little ones by Peter Marks

REVIEW || This family friendly musical just isn't special enough.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Chaos as art: Pointless takes on Dada in 'Hugo Ball' by Peter Marks

A boisterous production explores the title character's evolution into a Dada revolutionary.

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Monday, April 25, 2016

It's Restaurant Week on Broadway: Jesse Tyler Ferguson romps in 'Fully Committed' by Peter Marks

|| Ferguson plays all the parts in this one-person culinary-world cry of the heart.

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Ingredients of 'Waitress': Sara Bareilles, show tunes and syrup by Peter Marks

REVIEW || Sara Bareilles makes her debut as a Broadway composer with this stage version of a sweet 2007 movie.

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Friday, April 22, 2016

Imagine being Lin-Manuel Miranda right now by Peter Marks

It's the year of the "Hamilton" composer, who continues to receive accolades

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

'American Psycho' not even so-so by Peter Marks

REVIEW || The musical is far less sensational than the Bret Easton Ellis novel on which it is based.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

'Dear Evan Hansen': Welcome to New York by Peter Marks

The creators of the musical, a hit at Arena Stage, are refining it in the run-up to its New York debut.

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Friday, April 15, 2016

George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice by Peter Marks

With a team of stars, the director brings "Shuffle Along" back to Broadway.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Frank Langella in the disappointingly prosaic 'The Father' by Peter Marks

REVIEW|| Langella convincingly portrays an old man losing himself, though the play never rises above the predictable.

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Ivo van Hove's stirring 'A View from the Bridge' coming to the Kennedy Center by Peter Marks

A highly praised revival this season of Arthur Miller's tragedy will make its way to the Kennedy Center this fall

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

"The Nether": A clever, strange and scary look at online morality by Peter Marks

Woolly Mammoth Theatre stages Jennifer Haley's Web-inspired drama.

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Friday, April 8, 2016

Aaron Davidman's warmly rewarding 'Wrestling Jerusalem' by Peter Marks

|| REVIEW "Wrestling Jerusalem" is Aaron Davidman's beguiling report on his travels through Israel.

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'What does it mean to be a Jewish theater?' by Peter Marks

Adam Immerwahr charts the future, and the identity, of Washington's Theater J.

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Sarah Burgess, a young playwright batting 1 for 1 by Peter Marks

A playwright from Alexandria, Va. makes her own global debut with "Dry Powder" at Manhattan's Public Theater

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

"The Crucible" as you've never seen it by Peter Marks

With Ronan, Whishaw and Okonedo, director Ivo van Hove gives a classic new vibrancy

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it by Peter Marks

Motti Lerner has found a powerful ally outside his native Israel in Washington's Ari Roth.

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'Bright Star' is a spoonful of southern sugar. by Peter Marks

REVIEW || If you like your musicals sugary and sentimental, this is the one for you.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

'After the War,' about an Israeli musician, shows there's no country for bold men by Peter Marks

Motti Lerner's new play, "After the War," explores the depths of alienation in an Israeli family irrevocably divided by the country's near-perpetual state of war. But if the vague and unsett…

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Friday, March 25, 2016

A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it by Peter Marks

Reeling from his service as a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Motti Lerner felt the need to express his deep misgivings about the conflict publicly. So he gathered 30 of his fellow stude…

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

'Bright Star' is a spoonful of southern sugar. by Peter Marks

NEW YORK -- The first time it struck me as pretty. The second, it just seemed kind of sappy."Bright Star," the twangy new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has moved onto Broadway a…

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Why 'She Loves Me' remains easy to love by Peter Marks

NEW YORK -- Exuberance, thy musical name is "She Loves Me."The melodies of this 1963 show by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick sound as sweet and richly evocative as ever in dire…

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Theater lovers will get hooked on the marvelous moviehouse play 'The Flick' by Peter Marks

Curling up with a good novel, permitting an author to close the door artfully on your world for a spell and open up theirs, gradually, to you " that's one of the pleasures of solitary, liter…

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Tony winner Laura Benanti gets the last bow in 'She Loves Me' by Peter Marks

NEW YORK -- Self-consciousness seems a strange affliction for an actress. But Laura Benanti used to experience such a profound case of it at the end of a performance that curtain calls becam…

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Monday, March 14, 2016

Better than meeting Michelle Obama? Meeting 'Hamilton's' Lin-Manuel Miranda. by Peter Marks

Lin-Manuel Miranda returned Monday to the room where it happened. And, at the behest of first lady Michelle Obama, he brought the entire cast of his mega-hit musical, "Hamilton," to that roo…

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Broadway's man of the moment: Ivo van Hove by Peter Marks

Although he has always been fond of this country's drama, Ivo van Hove " a European vying for the mantle of America's hottest stage director " never felt any affinity for one of our most rev…

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