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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Is theater director Alan Paul the hardest-working man in D.C. showbiz? by Thomas Floyd

The prolific 35-year-old’s latest project, after “Cabaret” and “Peter Pan and Wendy,” is “Spring Awakening” at Round House.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Road-trip musical ‘Miss You Like Hell’ embarks on a bumpy ride to catharsis by Thomas Floyd

The Olney Theatre Center production, about an undocumented Latina mother and her estranged daughter, sometimes loses its way but ultimately hits home.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:32PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020

‘Spring Awakening’ lights up Round House Theatre with visual flair by Thomas Floyd

Director Alan Paul stages a visually audacious, if occasionally unwieldy, revival of the rock musical.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:54PM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ gives the Folger Theatre a groovy send-off — for now by Thomas Floyd

Aaron Posner directs a ’70s spin on one of the Bard’s less-known works, as the theater embarks on a two-year renovation.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:03PM
Monday, December 23, 2019

Chris Redd on Eddie Murphy, Cory Booker and his New Year’s Eve stand-up gigs by Thomas Floyd

The SNL castmember rings in the new year with a pair of shows at Drafthouse Comedy.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PM
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Three Scrooges: A trio of area actors reflect on playing Dickens’s Christmas curmudgeon by Thomas Floyd

Craig Wallace, Kevin Adams and Paul Morella each bring a distinct approach to ‘A Christmas Carol.’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PM
Monday, December 16, 2019

Mosaic Theater’s ‘Eureka Day’ slyly takes aim at self-righteous liberalism by Thomas Floyd

Playwright Jonathan Spector delivers a smart satire about a collision of ideals at a hyper-progressive day school.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PM
Friday, December 13, 2019

Second City returns to Washington with familiar gifts in ‘She the People’ and ‘Love, Factually’ by Thomas Floyd

The Chicago comedy troupe is putting on new versions of the sketch shows this holiday season at Woolly Mammoth Theatre and the Kennedy Center.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Hit musical ‘Come From Away’ brings its message of compassion back to D.C. by Thomas Floyd

The Tony-winning show arrives at the Kennedy Center three years after its pre-Broadway tryout at Ford’s Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:03AM
Monday, December 9, 2019

Ken Ludwig’s ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is an affecting love letter to unlikely romance by Thomas Floyd

The Arena Stage production, set against the backdrop of World War II, was inspired by the long-distance courtship between the playwright’s parents.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:42PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

At Round House Theatre, video projections express the inner life of a boy on the spectrum by Thomas Floyd

“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is a mystery centering on a 15-year-old math prodigy

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:06AM

‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks by Thomas Floyd

At Round House Theatre, imaginative reinvention makes a fresh case for seeing the Tony-winning play.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33AM
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Olney Theatre Center’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ pours on the showmanship by Thomas Floyd

Jacob Scott Tischler’s Cosmo Brown steals the show in a safe but crowd-pleasing staging of the iconic musical.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:03PM

John Leguizamo incorporates new lessons into his ‘Latin History for Morons’ by Thomas Floyd

The actor brings his reworked his one-man show to the National Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:54AM
Monday, November 18, 2019

This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors by Thomas Floyd

Factory 449’s small-scale production delivers an expertly performed rumination on crises of faith.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AM
Thursday, November 14, 2019

For this reporter-turned-actor, worlds collide in Arena Stage’s ‘Newsies’ by Thomas Floyd

Former journalist Wyn Delano performs in the journalism-themed musical.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AM
Thursday, October 24, 2019

At the Shakespeare Theatre, this play’s casting changes from night to night by Thomas Floyd

A nightly lottery determines who plays what part in the morality play ‘Eveybody.’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PM
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Arena Stage tackles Internet privacy — and permanence — in ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ by Thomas Floyd

World-premiere play explores the vanguard of digital civil rights.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PM
Friday, October 4, 2019

Brandon McCoy’s ‘West By God’ stands tall at the divide of rural and urban America by Thomas Floyd

The Keegan Theatre production is a humorous and heartfelt love letter to the playwright’s home state of West Virginia.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03PM
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show continues his habit of confessional comedy by Thomas Floyd

At the National Theatre, ‘The New One’ explores the comedian’s fear of fatherhood.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AM
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Woolly Mammoth’s new artistic director brings Pulitzer-winning ‘Fairview’ to D.C. by Thomas Floyd

The bold interrogation of race in America opens the theater company’s 2019-2020 season.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:18AM
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Heidi Schreck turns the page as ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ comes to Kennedy Center by Thomas Floyd

The Tony-nominated show moves from Broadway to the nation's capital, having nearly played at Woolly Mammoth Theatre earlier this year.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:12PM
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Signature Theatre’s ‘Assassins’ takes a shot at humanizing history’s villains by Thomas Floyd

The actors who play the likes of John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald in the Stephen Sondheim musical explained how they tap into such troubled minds.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ tests star Ben Levi Ross like he’s never been tested before by Thomas Floyd

The 21-year-old actor wrestles with the taxing lead role as the smash musical returns to D.C. for a Kennedy Center run.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PM

New to ‘Dear Evan Hansen’? Start with these standout songs. by Thomas Floyd

The Broadway smash, which won a Grammy in 2018 for best musical theater album, begins a monthlong run at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PM
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Jayne Atkinson made it her ‘civic duty’ to honor Ann Richards with one-woman show ‘Ann’ by Thomas Floyd

The "House of Cards" and "Madam Secretary" actress is playing the former Texas governor in Arena Stage's new production.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PM

Unexpected Stage Company’s husband-and-wife founders can’t make their D.C. Dream Day long enough by Thomas Floyd

Rachel Stroud-Goodrich and Christopher Goodrich are celebrating their theater company's 10-year anniversary with a production of "The Few" in Bethesda.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PM
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Take an inside look at how Signature Theatre’s ‘Blackbeard’ got its ship together by Thomas Floyd

Director Eric Schaeffer, costume designer Erik Teague and scenic designer Paul Tate dePoo III walked us through the world-premiere musical's ambitious aesthetic.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PM
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Maboud Ebrahimzadeh was nearly an athlete or a doctor. Life’s plot twists led him to theater. by Thomas Floyd

Mahmood and Jaleh Ebrahimzadeh escaped the Iran-Iraq War to give their son a better a life. After following in their career footsteps, the Maryland-based actor then found his own path.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AM

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