Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Blood is thicker than water — but how does it stack up against the power of thought? That question is getting a satisfying theatrical workout at the Contemporary American Theater Festival,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PMMonday, July 9, 2012
Suitcases hurtle through the air in a joyous game of catch. Dancers line up to mimic a locomotive, arms churning like wheels. A round of leapfrog frolics across a space that, moments before,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMWednesday, June 20, 2012
The Mrs. Grundys of this world might want to give a wide berth to the Church Street Theater for a few weeks: The two spirited and affecting productions running in that venue, courtesy of the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Two clowns scuffle, falling to the floor in a snarl of kicks and slaps. One of the brawlers is a misfit tramp in a bowler hat and oversize jacket. The other, sporting a bright orange wig and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
How fitting that a play at the Source Festival should speak about sources — the origins of the universe, the wellsprings of personality, the roots of our feelings about other people. Those…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
To get a sounding on the mood of Europe, you could turn to the daily news coverage of the region’s economic woes. But there are other options for pulse-taking: In a mini-festival that kick…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:19PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Like a pair of pearl-studded garters worn beneath a thrift-store nuptial gown, there’s a morality play and a pop-psychology manifesto tucked beneath the surface of the acid comedy “Bache…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:35AMFriday, May 25, 2012
How do you light the apocalypse?
That’s a question that D.C.-based lighting designer Colin K. Bills has pondered repeatedly of late. This in-demand artist, who masterminds lighting for abo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMThursday, May 3, 2012
Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. Captain Bluntschli and Raina Petkoff. Napoleon and the Strange Lady in “The Man of Destiny.” Some divertingly incongruous duos gravitate toward each ot…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:56PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Sure, Hamlet does a headstand while yearning for his too sullied flesh to melt. Claudius puts a champagne cork down the neck of Gertrude’s dress; and Elsinore’s sentinels skulk and bumbl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:43AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
Sharks rarely swarm onto theater stages. But darned if some Great Whites (or approximations thereof) haven’t torpedoed their way into the delightfully irreverent stunt occupying the Arlene…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Love sure takes a lot out of you. That truth must dawn on the tempestuous suitors portrayed in “Come Fly Away,” the efficient fireball of a dance musical created by Twyla Tharp and set t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:01PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Does the heroine of “John & Beatrice” need a psychiatrist, or does she need a lamp with a genie in it? That’s a question you’ll ponder as you watch Carole Frechette’s intriguin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
If you have to have a witch for a mother, you could do a lot worse than the enchantress in Imagination Stage’s “Rapunzel.” Sure, this black-arts virtuoso has a bad habit of turning acq…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:55PMFriday, March 9, 2012
A white fox romps amid the telescoping screens of an antique Japanese art form. A drag queen rockets through a jungle, a sci-fi Manhattan and hell. Abstract colored shapes undulate in water …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:09PMThursday, March 1, 2012
John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe’s new rock musical had a twisty genesis. How many works can trace their inspiration to Russian literature, a grocery run in Queens and an episode of “The So…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMFriday, February 3, 2012
At Ford’s Theatre Museum, decorous glass-cased displays and solemn recorded voices chronicle the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Whiffs of the exhibits’ earnest, tidily instructive aura a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMMonday, December 19, 2011
Never try to beat actress Carolyn Cole in a klutzy-daze competition. Early on in Signature Theatre’s zesty, aerosol-buoyant “Hairspray,” Cole’s character, Tracy Turnblad, a full-figu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:14PMMonday, November 28, 2011
Don’t expect 19th-century decorousness or gingerbread-scented sentiment from “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Adventure Theatre’s latest production. Ken Ludwig’s children�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PMMonday, November 7, 2011
Let’s hope the U.S. Croquet Association is not meeting in Washington in the next few weeks: Happenstance Theater’s second “Cabaret Macabre” might send the group’s members into shoc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:35PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
An industrious arachnid might be proud of the unassuming high-wire act Joseph Robinette pulled off with his dramatization of “Charlotte’s Web” at Adventure Theatre. Into an hour-long s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMA king in masquerade; a double agent with a drinking problem; an actress in gold-and-turquoise menswear — historical eccentrics zip in and out of a closet and other hiding places in “Or,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen a Georgia native named Freddie settles down on a chair near the wrought ironwork of a Southern veranda, carefully adjusting the rings on his fingers as he recalls his turbulent childhoo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIf there were a Williams-Sonoma for witches, the cauldron in Synetic Theater’s wordless “Macbeth” would be a bestseller. Consider: In an early moment of this darkly incantatory product…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMMonday, March 28, 2011
Think dream ballets went out with the likes of Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille? Think again. There's an example of the genre in "Mirandy and Brother Wind," the enchanting new children's mu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMFriday, February 4, 2011
For a show that ostensibly beats the drum for poetry, "American Scrapbook: A Celebration of Verse" doesn't place much faith in words. Sure, the performers in this world premiere deliver live…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM 
