Thursday, September 27, 2012
Before you begin this story, I suggest you turn off your camera, discard your water bottle and silence your cellphone. Patti LuPone has a zero-tolerance policy for distractions at the theate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:05PMIn the black-box theater at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Marcus Kyd — whose hair is currently dyed the traffic-light yellow favored by seventh-grade boys circa 2003 — is directing a r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:56AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
“Holly Down in Heaven,” the play by Kara Lee Corthron that is enjoying its world premiere at Forum Theatre, marks Forum’s first run with a resident playwright.
“I’m learning how e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:32PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
In honor of the Kennedy Center Honors, and also in honor of honor-themed wordplay, we decided to take a closer look at some facts and figures regarding the presitigous arts award. This year�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
In the world premiere of the Theater for Young Audiences’ version of “Big”—surely you’ve seen the 1988 movie, in which Tom Hanks plays “Heart and Soul” and “Chopsticks” on …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
The H Street Playhouse has new digs and a new name to go with them. When the theater opens shop at 2020 Shannon Pl. in March, it will be under a new moniker: Anacostia Playhouse.
Owner Adel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has chosen F. Murray Abraham as this year’s recipient of the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre. The award will be presented at the Harman Cent…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
According to Gwydion Suilebhan, we have an obsession.
“We” is the entire planet. The obsession is with superheroes.
Suilebhan, a D.C.-based playwright, theater blogger and resident pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:10PMSaturday, August 25, 2012
Two Leesburg communities’ petition challenging the Loudoun County School Board’s rezoning plan, which altered boundaries so that more than 600 students were assigned to the new Frederick…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PMFriday, August 24, 2012
Suri’s Burn Book, the satirical blog written by Allie Hagan, has been chronicling the lives of celebrity spawn from the perspective of Suri Cruise since July, 2011. As imagined by Hagan, y…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:25AMOn July 11, 2011, Allie Hagan, a policy consultant at the Penn Hill Group in Washington, was indulging in her off-hours obsession: celebrity children.
She’d occasionally say “snappy lit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:55AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Readers, it’s been a pretty eventful week for the ladies. In front page, earth-shattering golf news, the Augusta National Golf Club has finally admitted not one but two women to its previo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:37PMFriday, August 17, 2012
After 19 years, Marsha Mason is selling the farm.
The actress had racked up four best actress Oscar nods for her work in “Cinderella Liberty,” “The Goodbye Girl,” “Only When I Laug…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:30AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Eric Schaeffer, Signature Theatre’s artistic director, gave loose guidelines to the performers in the upcoming “Summer Hummer,” a benefit for Taking Care of Our Own, TheatreWashington�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:44PMI am asking director Grady Weatherford what “A Maze” is about. One would think this is a fairly simple question.
“It can be a difficult question,” says Weatherford, which is a sign …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Theater, once considered an activity one needed to be at least in grade school to appreciate, has become an increasingly popular form of recreation for the 5-and-under set. Imagination Stage…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:10PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Noor Siddiqui doesn’t want to go to college yet.
She seems the very model of a college-bound student. The Clifton resident graduated from Robinson Secondary School in June with a stellar g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:25PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
It’s been a week of accidental scoops in theaterland.
First, Mayor Vincent C. Gray let it slip that the H Street Playhouse would be relocating to Anacostia — days before owner Adele Robe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:03PMMonday, July 30, 2012
The H Street Playhouse is relocating to 2020 Shannon Place SE in Anacostia.
In the face of escalating rent, H Street founder Adele Robey was forced out of the neighborhood she (and her husb…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:31PMFriday, July 27, 2012
The H Street Playhouse is relocating from its eponymous location in Northeast D.C. to Anacostia.
Though owner Adele Robey hadn’t planned on announcing the move until Monday afternoon, Ma…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:31PMThursday, July 26, 2012
People of the world who were married just over 20 years ago, check your wedding tapes.
Slightly younger people of the world who had their bar or bat mitzvahs in the 1990s, unearth that VHS f…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:47PMTuesday, July 24, 2012
It is Friday at 5 p.m., happy hour by definition, but it doesn’t feel that way. It’s gloomy and overcast, as if the sky were under the direction of Christopher Nolan.
That is, it is glo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:01PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Watching Homegrown Theatre’s “The Freshman 15/Life in Transition” is like watching a bunch of reality TV confessionals, over and over and over again, for 75 minutes.
The Capital Fring…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2012-13 season will no longer include “Man and Superman,” the George Bernard Shaw play that was to be directed by Aaron Posner. In its place will be Eugen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMSunday, July 15, 2012
The show opened with an “oww!”
You know the one. This is “Michael Jackson, The Immortal World Tour” by Cirque du Soleil. A recording of Jackson’s voice filled the room, and he was …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PMFriday, July 13, 2012
At Thursday’s hearing regarding whether the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s injunction against the Lansburgh Theater, its landlord and supporting organization, should be tried in a Federal…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PMThursday, July 12, 2012
David S. Kessler is a Fringe fanatic.
For 50 weeks out of the year, he works as a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo. But for two sweltering weeks in July, Kessler devotes himself to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:43PMTuesday, July 10, 2012
On Aug. 4, the performance of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be followed by a discussion with producing dramaturg Ronee Penoi, Apple co-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:13PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Megan Hilty doesn’t think she’s famous.
Sure, she’s the star of “Smash” on NBC, the dramatized — or, more accurately, soap opera-ized — story of the making of a Broadway musica…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:01PMSuzanne Andrade is sitting cross-legged on a sofa at Studio Theatre, where “The Animals and Children Took to the Streets” is nearing the end of its Washington run. This is the second sho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:27AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Synetic’s 2012-13 season boasts four world premieres. “My take is that four brand-new productions . . . will inspire people in different ways,” said Paata Tsikurishvili, the theate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:45AM 
