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 01:12PMIn Round House Theatre's 'Nollywood Dreams,' 29-year-old actress Ernaisja Curry plays a young Nigerian who dreams of stardom.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:18AMDirector 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‘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 02:12AMKimberly 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"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 08:36AMSet 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 06:36PMPlaywright Michal Bloom discovers contemporary resonance in his updated version of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play "Nathan the Wise."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:24AMUtilizing 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 09:24AMAnna Ouyang Moench’s ‘Birds of North America’ uses the passage of time to tell its story.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PMA new adaptation of ‘Doña Rosita the Spinster’ features an unmarried woman looking back on her youth.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:42AMPlaywright David Lindsay-Abaire’s race-themed drama takes place in shifting landscape.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:48AMPlaywright Antoinette Nwandu uses the language of the street to convey a universal message.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54PMAt the Olney Theatre, McKeown’s songs explore the relationship between an estranged mother and daughter.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:32AMSet in 1939, Theater J’s play has timely contemporary resonance.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMStage adaptation of popular ghost novel surprised its creator by becoming a scary good hit.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:03PMThe show takes place at the Allegory, a bar in the Eaton Hotel.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:06PM‘I don’t want it to seem like the comedy stops and then the dancing begins.’
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:36AM“We used to say, ‘We bleed Lehman green.’ The play captures all that.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PMLiza Jessie Peterson wrote her one-woman play, a damning critique of mass incarceration, based on her experiences visiting prisons.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AMIn a Baltimore suburb, Danielle Drakes tackles the famous riot play.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PMMalinda Kathleen Reese found fame on YouTube, where her channel, “Translator Fails,” now sends up Hollywood and pop hits.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMKeith Hamilton Cobb analyzes more than just race and the iconic role.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:32PMThe play about a controversial play gets a heartbeat from klezmer.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48AMBeauty is an attitude in 1994 musical, which is based on 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AM“Entirely Elvis,” at Signature Theatre, showcases his rawness and original sound.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24AMSinger-songwriter’s alt-rock album “Girlfriend” is now the score to Signature’s “Girlfriend.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:36AMThe Rock-Ola from the original staging of “Two Trains Running” lights up the stage again.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:18AMAlexander Strain found his day job, in social work, reflected in this play about depression, “Every Brilliant Thing.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:12AMIn ‘Nothing to Lose (but Our Chains),’ standup comic Felonious Munk gives voice to some of his victims.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:36AMChristina Ham’s fantasy, opening at Arena Stage, depicts the activist “trying to tell a truth.”
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