Rachel Dratch portrays FrannyCakes, a makeup vlogger who fights with an old lady over a bottle of Purell in a Costco. Marylouise Burke is Penny, a lovely suburban matron who wonders where …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PMThe threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it’s not killing theater – which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now – the on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMThe odd pairing of old Bob Dylan songs with Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s new script about desperate lives during the Great Depression worked well enough when I saw it Off-Broadway in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMHow do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock con…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PMMolly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on scree…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PMWhat’s most remarkable about Ivo van Hove’s shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director’s ruinous choices – chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMWe’re all in pain – because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness – and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:12AMCharles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. More production p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PM“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.” That’s what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54AMIn a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about “political theater” — when they didn’t mean anything actually happening…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PMWanda Wheels bristles when Mateo calls her “kind” in this sprawling, funny, foul-mouthed, messy, moving ensemble piece, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s first new play in New York since his Puli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18PMThere’s a joke Maggie and her son Joe like to tell on their tours of the local mine in Samuel D. Hunter’s latest play: “Guy falls down into the mine. His boss yells at him, ‘did you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PMThis holiday season in New York means at least ten Christmas Carols, including one this year on Broadway, and 15 Nutcracker Suites. Holiday shows in the city range from family fare to offb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AM“The Inheritance,” a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMIt’s surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical canonization of the amoral historica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54AMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PMBella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.” Abzug paused, apo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PMFreestyle Love Supreme is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to Hamilton as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16 years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMThere are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMI first saw Slave Play Off-Broadway, long before Rihanna made headlines for texting during the show (playwright Jeremy O. Harris publicly defended her; he was the one she was texting); and s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMCan an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PM“I feel strongly that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMThe same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and Eil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMThere was a huge line to see the fourth Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s 1978 play about an adulterous triangle. The enthusiasm, I had assumed, was because the cast includes the mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03PMBat Out of Hell is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf’s trilogy of bes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMIt’s not at all baffling why these two modest monologues by different playwrights were yoked together into a single show at the Public Theater earlier this year. There’s an even simpler …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMHarold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. The lights of all Bro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PMThe actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing dan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AMWhat would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea, one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMToni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
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