Tuesday, October 29, 2013
David Gonzalez is a divorced child of divorce. His world premiere one-man show “Man of the House (Or: How I Tracked Down My Dad, the Spy)” is his way of wrestling with that, and how he g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47PMThursday, October 24, 2013
There is a Washington that wakes up early. That stretches the tightness from sleep out of its shoulders, slides on sneakers and stumbles out into the still-crisp morning air. There is a Wash…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Woolly Mammoth’s “Appropriate” is anything but when you’re thinking about material that’s kosher for kids. The comic drama by native Washingtonian Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PMFriday, October 18, 2013
If you’ve never been to Baltimore Knife and Sword, you’ll probably never find it. There’s no sign outside the small blue building a ways down a winding stretch of Marriottsville Road n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:44AMTuesday, October 15, 2013
How much does it cost to override a government shutdown? If you’re Ford’s Theatre, $25,000. That’s the amount of emergency funding that trustee Ronald O. Perelman donated to the Ford�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:56PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Jason Loewith, Olney Theatre Center artistic director, has a plan. It is “either a brilliant idea or a disaster in the making,” he said. “We’ll see!” The game plan: Instead of a tr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:05PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Lee Mikeska Gardner and David Bryan Jackson knew a lot about each other before joining — or, more accurately, becoming — the cast of “The Two-Character Play” at Spooky Action Theater…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:39PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
“New Plays from Spain,” a collaboration among Spain Arts & Culture, Studio Theatre, No Rules Theatre Company and Theater Alliance, will bring the newly translated work of Spanish pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:10PMMonday, September 23, 2013
It’s hard out there for a hero. Anti-heroes have it easy. Their sinful existence satisfies our basest desires. We love them for being the kind of reckless, selfish people we would despise …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMFriday, September 20, 2013
No one plays Matthew Shepard in “The Laramie Project.” The piece of documentary theater was inspired by Shepard’s murder: The gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student was brutall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Gregory McGurder, vice president for public programs at National Geographic, asked Jim Lehrer, former “PBS NewsHour” anchor turned novelist and playwright, if he’d be interested in wri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
The National Museum for Women in the Arts has raised more than $25 million in the past six years, reaching its goal of doubling a $25 million endowment by the museum’s 25th anniversary. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:31PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
When Megan Anderson first read the script for Amy Herzog’s “After the Revolution,” she thought her character, Emma, would be relatively blameless. “Emma is the protagonist,” Anders…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Chances are, given the scale of Signature Theatre’s production of “Miss Saigon,” the cast and crew could have anticipated, or worried about, any number of things malfunctioning: The ru…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:26PMSunday, September 1, 2013
Judith Viorst has a folder. It’s “about this thick,” she says, holding her thumb and her forefinger about two inches apart. In it are articles she has seen that quote the most famous p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMFriday, August 30, 2013
At this year’s Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Gala, the headliner will be Pink Martini, a self-proclaimed “little orchestra” from Portland, Ore., that’s been together for nearly two de…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:00PMAsk Destin Daniel Cretton about his first day of work at a short-term home for at-risk teenagers, and the first thing he does is take a deep breath. Then he says: “Oh, man.” He begins: �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
The Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival is 12 years old. Organizers are not really thinking about a dozen years of history, though; the showcase of new works from 40-plus local theaters is…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMFriday, August 23, 2013
Here we are again, all talking about "Saturday Night Live" like it's 1999. The New York Times posted a story Thursday on how terrifying it is to audition for Lorne Michaels, which is totally…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:09PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will host “From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: A Town Hall Meeting on Black Bodies and American Racism” at 7 p.m. Friday. Might not seem like typical theat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:59PMMonday, August 19, 2013
Feels like only yesterday there was literally nothing to report on except the way Waity Katie was keeping us all waiting. Yet finally, Prince George Alexander Louis was held aloft before the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Picture, if you will, $95 million dollars. Visualize that money however you like. Maybe you're envisioning the bills in neat, orderly stacks, with Walter White hovering above his latest haul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:29PMTuesday, August 13, 2013
heliumprov: he·li·um·prahv(noun): when you suck in helium and proceed to perform improvised comedy, colloquially known as “improv.” Just some vocabulary you might want to know as you…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:49PMThursday, August 8, 2013
As part of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will make its debut appearance on American soil at the Smithsonian’s N…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:29PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
When Rorschach Theatre decided to produce “Neverwhere,” adapted from Neil Gaiman’s novel and filled with such stage directions as “THE GREAT BEAST OF LONDON enters. . . . It is a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:22PMFriday, August 2, 2013
It’s just before the end of Act 1 of “The Book of Mormon,” and Christopher John O’Neill is singing about Jesus. O’Neill knows the words. He knows he knows the words. The song is �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Taffety Punk company member Marcus Kyd’s explanation for how Bootleg Shakespeare began is very simple: “It was initially a dare.” The way Bootleg Shakespeare works, for the uninitiated…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:01PMFriday, July 26, 2013
At the beginning of “The To Do List,” the camera lingers on 1990s objects as the 2 Live Crew hit “Me So Horny” throbs in the background. Names of the cast and crew pop up on scrunchi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Please look upon this easel for the most important announcement of all of our lifetimes: Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, she of the second-shiniest hair in the Western Hemisphere (Tami …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Rep Stage, the professional Equity theater in residence at Howard Community College, is filling the vacant artistic director position with two people: Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch. B…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:03PMTuesday, July 9, 2013
There’s a new player here in Theaterland. Introducing: our very own local playwrights collective. It’s called the Welders, named for Cherrie Moraga’s poem (“I am the welder. / I am t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PM 
