Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Partway through dramatist Will Eno's quirky, philosophical and nearly plot-free "Middletown," an eccentric couple who have opted to tour a run-of-the-mill small American community explain th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2015
A muse and a band seemed to battle it out for Savion Glover's affection Saturday night. At times during the now-rapt, now-meandering "Dance Holiday Spectacular" performance at George Mason U…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Somewhere in clothesline heaven, assorted long fibers are giving thanks for the existence of the Neo-Futurists. Because the adventurous Chicago troupe has elevated the status of the entire s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
The words "belligerence" and "banana" may not usually appear in the same sentence. But among the noteworthy traits of Daphna, the opinionated, fervently Jewish 22-year-old at the heart of Jo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
No chess set appears in the 1960s living room that's the setting for director Stephen Jarrett's staging of "Entertaining Mr Sloane." But you could almost swear that the board game was underw…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
"All this rushing around " I feel quite giddy," the evil mastermind Professor Moriarty remarks at one point in "Sherlock Holmes," running at the Warner Theatre through Sunday. The Napoleon o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Among the stars of Washington Stage Guild's latest production: a comb, a metal bucket and a tray of cornflakes.Sure, there are also human performers in "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio P…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
ASHLAND, ORE. " The princely title character in "Pericles" sails from country to country, meeting with shipwreck and human villainy, devastating loss and unexpected joy. The version of "Peri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
With apologies to Falstaff, the better part of valor is not always discretion. You have to be glad that Brave Spirits Theatre has flung caution to the wind and staged an almost entirely re-g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
With its pill-dispensing stations and trim, backless sofas, this hospital lounge doesn't look like a stomping ground for cannibals. But cannibals do lurk here, as do space pirates, lizard pe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2015
It is a relief to report that there has been no ruinous gentrification of Avenue Q. It was back in 2003 that the thoroughfare gave its name to a gleefully irreverent, puppet-enhanced musical…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Is Google making us stupid? Maybe, maybe not. But the wired lifestyle has certainly dimmed the acumen of Amelia, Barnaby, Chantal and Dagobert, the principal characters in Emilio Williams's …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A big tip of a tropical-fruit-bedecked hat to Pointless Theatre for its distinctive and ebullient contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Many young theater companies might quai…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Is there something about mini-marts that prompts soul searching? You might almost think so after watching Jacqueline Goldfinger's "Trish Tinkler Gets Saved" and Julia Starr's "The Long Way A…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Lewis Carroll, who was an Oxford University mathematics lecturer, might have delighted in calculating the speeds that cascade through Synetic Theater's darkly hallucinatory "Alice in Wonderl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
The dervish ethos goes way beyond whirling.That's likely to be one takeaway from "Dervishes and Their Belongings," an exhibition of about 300 historical artifacts at the Turkish American Com…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Launching a career is tough. And the last thing an ambitious young professional needs is a chatty ghost elephant seeking to transform the 9-to-5 landscape into a mythological killing field.T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
A messy office is an ominous signifier in "The Point," a play with the good intentions, and much of the bluntness, of a public-service announcement. Currently on view in a stiffly acted, pau…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:23PM[SHARE]A dignitary should know how to make a proper entrance, and Elizabeth I " all four of her " gets the business right in "texts&beheadings/ElizabethR." Created and directed by the adventuro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:23PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
Not many young musicians find their muses in a university archive, but fiddler and singer Maarja Nuut is indebted to the University of Tartu's Viljandi Culture Academy, in her homeland of Es…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
In one of the funnier moments in "Whenever You're Near Me I Feel Sick," Jennie Berman Eng's slender rom-com variation, an airport's recorded-announcement voice starts functioning as a supere…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
Here's one thing you don't learn in film school: sheep wrangling. Though the central character in Ana V. Bojórquez and LucÃa Carreras's latest film is a young girl, the supporting cast…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Have humans put the universe through the heavy-duty cycle when it really needed a quick spin on delicate? It's hard not to get carried away with the metaphorical possibilities of the laundro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:19PM[SHARE]To gauge the intensity of "Yerma," Spanish director José Luis Arellano GarcÃa's latest collaboration with GALA Hispanic Theatre, consider that the production doesn't even pause at interm…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
"Exile saves you even as it shatters you," said Wajdi Mouawad, a Lebanese-born writer, director and performer who is one of the most-produced playwrights in France and Canada. Mouawad knows …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
The evocation of a massage session is stylized " almost jarringly so. Our heroine, Renee (Jeanne Dillon-Williams), the recovering alcoholic who is receiving the body-kneading treatment, stan…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Prepare for rebellious automatons, a 300-year-old opera singer, and a pack of newts taking a page from Ira Glass. These and other inventions will unfold locally this fall courtesy of the Cze…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
The invitation came with a catch.An Azerbaijani producer who was putting together a collection of short films asked filmmaker and writer Maria Ibrahimova if she'd be interested in contributi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38PM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
The singer Rafiya racked up a lot of miles during her childhood. Born in Los Angeles to Congolese parents, the singer (who uses one name professionally) grew up in Congo, Cape Verde, Benin, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Weirdness that is deep, measured and suspenseful trumps weirdness that is scattered, frantic and jokey. At least, that statement holds true when you're talking about the double-bill of one-a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:59PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
A juvenile delinquent wielding a can of spray paint may not be the kind of character most people associate with fairy tales, but ÂParis-based director Hicham Ayouch says there's a touch o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:53PM[SHARE] 
