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]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
The living-installation "Hello, My Name Is . . ." is staged in a house in the D.C. neighborhood of Takoma Park.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Robert Richmond, the director, went to Rome to brainstorm and prepare for staging the complex play.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2017
At Rorschach Theatre, the audience shares the space and the experience.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
"The Devil's Music," taking nearly a decade to make, opens Aug. 24 at Atlas Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The composer loved the film and teamed up with the writer for a show premiering at Keegan.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
The story set in the colonial era was mostly only updated in its cast and design for the run at Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
"A one-person play allowed me to be more romantic and physical," says writer Terry Baum.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
Eugene Lee stars in the one-man show about the revered playwright coming of age in Pittsburgh.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2017
A 1666 classic by Molière gets a freshening up but keeps the delightful rhyming verse.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
Director Luis Salgado sees parallels in Lin-Manuel Miranda's immigrant-centered musicals.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
The play, at Atlas, explores an interview for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
The world premiere at Signature explores dark corners of life in isolated Middle America.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
In 'The How and the Why," two female evolutionary biologists grapple with life choices.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
How an unlikely manners class evolved into "Charm" at Mosaic Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Tom Story describes directing multiple characters, and playing multiple characters himself.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
Production will use a scaled-back orchestra and multiethnic cast for the innovative musical.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
A young black man dies, yes, but the playwright has a deeper truth in mind.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
"You dial up the bizarreness, you magnify the emotions," says playwright Kate Hamill.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Show's costume designer had to come up with sturdy " but sexy! " stilettos.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Music, plays, poetry " and a very modern, very big version of the Celtic harp.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
At Pointless Theatre, drama meets slapstick meets puppets in "Hugo Ball."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Gala Hispanic Theatre sets 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' in a cockfighting ring.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
WILD WITH HAPPY
By Colman Domingo
through June 29 At Center Stage
There's a scene early in Colman Domingo's Wild with Happy at Center Stage where the protagonist, a 40-year…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 10:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Eric Rosen
Through May 25 At Center Stage
Anton Chekhov thought of his plays as comedies, while Konstantin Stani…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Pete Ross says that a survey of printed material in the United States between the 1730s and the 1830s turns up 58 different references to the banjo"and 57 of those citations describe the ins…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Through April 13 At Center Stage
I've seen Shakespeare updated in a lot of different ways, but Center Stage's current production of Twelfth Night is …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Written by R.M. O'Brien
Directed by Mason Ross
Through March 2 At the Annex Theater
Buried within the meandering exposition, parodic nostalgia, undigested history, and superfluous…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tales of Ordinary Madness
By Petr Zelenka
Through March 2 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre
Before the opening night performance of Petr Zelenka's Tales of Ordinary Madness at the…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Where The Whangdoodle Sings
Written by K. Frithjof Peterson
Directed by J.D. Sivert
Through Jan. 19 At the Theatre Project
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM[SHARE] 
