Monday, July 2, 2012
The D.C. Black Theatre Festival was founded in 2010 to celebrate all aspects of African American theater arts, from avant-garde to gospel-laced fables to morality tales to Tyler Perry’s br…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:32PMMonday, June 11, 2012
The horrors of Catholic school as remembered by playwright Christopher Durang in “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You” are manifold, hilarious and tragic. His 1979 play is a how…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:12PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Funny how a revolutionary aesthetic that paved the way for avant-garde theater can seem quaint when sampled nearly a century after it was born.
The pair of one-acts presented under the title…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AMFriday, June 8, 2012
“Why are those people annoyed with me?” the older gentleman asked his wife in a highly audible stage whisper.
She wasn’t sure, but I was sitting in front of them at the Lansburgh Thea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
A picture-book backdrop and a brightly colored jungle gym are the only fixed elements in “Five Little Monkeys,” the new show running — and jumping — through June 3 at Adventure Theat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:55PMFriday, April 27, 2012
Could there be a better moment to do “Working,” an audience-friendly revue of songs and monologues based on Studs Terkel’s 1974 book of interviews with American working folk?
Keegan Th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:53AMSunday, April 22, 2012
When you sit smiling for two-plus hours in a theater and don’t realize it until your face starts to ache, you know you’ve sojourned for a bit in theatrical heaven.
It’s a place theater…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:30PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Jay Alvarez’s short but galvanizing solo piece “Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!” gives Americans a good-natured nudge. In a poignantly personal way, the actor/playwright reminds u…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:55AMThursday, April 5, 2012
In some ways, Warren Leight’s Tony-winning memory play “Side Man” is a kitchen-sink drama about a warring married couple and the beleaguered son who tries to make peace and keep the ho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
The emotional stakes are high in Geoffrey Nauffts’s “Next Fall,” an affecting tragicomedy about love, faith and death, at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre through Feb. 26. Thanks to a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:11PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Art and commerce can make strange bedfellows in the world of nonprofit theater, especially in hard times.
Olney Theatre Center’s Jim Petosa knows that for sure. He has led the upper-Montg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Think you’re too sophisticated to play along with an interactive theater company?
Well, think again. The clever folks at Dog & Pony DC have collectively devised a theater piece about a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:15PM“Jersey Boys” is irresistible, and the touring company now at the National Theatre gets it almost entirely right.
This Broadway hit (it has been running since fall 2005 and has played Wa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:15PMThursday, October 27, 2011
The new Web site for theatreWashington launched today. Days before, Jane Horwitz spoke with theatreWashington’s President & CEO Linda Levy Grossman and her Director of Communication…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Sheri Herren, 50, says it’s been a “healing process” for her and her daughter Laura Herren, 23, to play mother and child onstage in “Steel Magnolias.” Keegan Theatre is doing Rober…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Beau Willimon’s 2008 play Farragut North, about the cynical choices of a young political press spokesman, gets a Hollywood makeover that expands, but doesn’t necessarily improve it. (cen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, March 28, 2011
How long has it been since you read or recited "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Or Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? How about Edgar Allan Poe's "Anna…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMFriday, February 4, 2011
What makes people happy? Playwright Jennifer L. Nelson asks the cosmic question in her new comedy, "24, 7, 365," which will run Feb. 10-27 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AMFriday, January 21, 2011
A look at the improvisational creative process of director Mary Zimmerman and her design team, the folks behind "The Arabian Nights," now at Arena Stage.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM 
