Tuesday, June 21, 2022
The play 'Shakespeare in Love,' based on the Oscar-winning 1998 film, follows the literary and romantic travails of the Bard.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
In Round House Theatre's 'Nollywood Dreams,' 29-year-old actress Ernaisja Curry plays a young Nigerian who dreams of stardom.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Director Sally Cookson talks about her theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novel "A Monster Calls," now at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2022
'There's Always the Hudson,' a new revenge-themed play by 'The 'Walking Dead' actress Paola Lázaro, premieres at Woolly Mammoth.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2022
Kimberly Belflower's play imagines contemporary high school students considering Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' through the lens of the #MeToo movement.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
"Parable of the Sower," a folk-opera adaptation of Octavia Butler's 1993 sci-fi novel created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, has uncanny resonance with current events.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2022
Set in the near future, the play "Private" imagines a world in which privacy is a commodity to be bought and sold.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
Playwright Michal Bloom discovers contemporary resonance in his updated version of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play "Nathan the Wise."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Utilizing the same basic plot as the film 'You've Got Mail,' the musical "She Loves Me" features the hummable tunes of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' uses the passage of time to tell its story.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A new adaptation of 'Doña Rosita the Spinster' features an unmarried woman looking back on her youth.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's race-themed drama takes place in shifting landscape.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu uses the language of the street to convey a universal message.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
At the Olney Theatre, McKeown's songs explore the relationship between an estranged mother and daughter.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Stage adaptation of popular ghost novel surprised its creator by becoming a scary good hit.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
'I don't want it to seem like the comedy stops and then the dancing begins.'
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
"We used to say, 'We bleed Lehman green.' The play captures all that."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Liza Jessie Peterson wrote her one-woman play, a damning critique of mass incarceration, based on her experiences visiting prisons.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Malinda Kathleen Reese found fame on YouTube, where her channel, "Translator Fails," now sends up Hollywood and pop hits.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
Keith Hamilton Cobb analyzes more than just race and the iconic role.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Beauty is an attitude in 1994 musical, which is based on 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
"Entirely Elvis," at Signature Theatre, showcases his rawness and original sound.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Singer-songwriter's alt-rock album "Girlfriend" is now the score to Signature's "Girlfriend."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
The Rock-Ola from the original staging of "Two Trains Running" lights up the stage again.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Alexander Strain found his day job, in social work, reflected in this play about depression, "Every Brilliant Thing."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
In 'Nothing to Lose (but Our Chains),' standup comic Felonious Munk gives voice to some of his victims.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2017
Christina Ham's fantasy, opening at Arena Stage, depicts the activist "trying to tell a truth."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48AM[SHARE] 
