Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51PMKwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Center Stage, has been leaving Baltimore over the past few weeks to go to prison in New York. He’s also been busy in homeless shelters and recr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PMFrom the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13PMIs there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That’s the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett’s cle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PMNobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn’t recognize her; she’s in the background under faded light,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PMAnnaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called “the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMAt the curtain call it struck home what’s special about the first Broadway production of Dames at Sea, the 1930’s musical created in the 1960s: Only six performers take bows. Busby Berke…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMAmy Carter is 47 years old now, but she is forever 12 in history, and also in First Daughter Suite, Michael John LaChiusa’s fanciful musical at the Public Theater. In the musical, howeve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PMThe two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they’re portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson – with some 130 years …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50PMUgly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27PMWhen it was first announced that a cast including Kathleen Turner and Deborah Cox would be performing in an Off-Broadway play about a woman in a lesbian relationship who is secretly transgen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PMIn the lobby of the theater where Clive Owen is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter’s 1971 Old Times, a t-shirt on sale is printed with the single word “pause.” T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10PMIn a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn’t considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite – why…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36PMThe Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52PMWe are pleased to welcome noted theatre critic John Lahr back to Washington with this interview, conducted last week in New York. ————————R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMDo theology and theater mix? Is there an unspoken separation between church and stage? A day after the announcement that Amazing Grace will close on Broadway after little more than three m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PMWhen Hamilton opened Off-Broadway in February, I called it groundbreaking and breathtaking – and I was trying not to gush. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical about the life and times…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49PMTo see President Obama break into “Amazing Grace” at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37PMShows for Days, starring Patti LuPone as a ruthless regional diva and Michael Urie as a sweet stand-in for playwright Douglas Carter Beane, dramatizes Beane’s memories of his introduction …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27PMBasic questions such as the origin of the universe – Big Bang Theory vs. Divine Creation – may fiercely divide the world, but on stage at Studio 54, they are a source of jokes b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PM– Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming host the 2015 Tony Awards Sunday, June 7 from Radio City Music Hall. If, we asked our New York critic Jonathan Mandell, choosing the winners was c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMWhy the recent boom in theatre about theatre? Patrick Stewart has portrayed a spaceship captain, a mutant, Scrooge, and Macbeth, but the character he’s performing this season on Broad…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMIt is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMThe only problem with “La Bete,” which has now opened on Broadway, is what certainly shot it down in 1991 — the play itself, an imitation Moliere comedy set in 17th century…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMThanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM“Elf” the musical, a harmless and occasionally charming stage adaptation that has now opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and runs just until January 2, more or less replicates t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMIf it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
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