A TRIUMPHANT SAGA OF A VIENNESE FAMILY Shakespeare Theatre Company, in association with Huntington in Boston, is presenting at Harman Hall an epic, haunting play about loss and survival. Gra…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMA POIGNANT LOOK AT FEMALE FRIENDSHIP What are the makings of female friendships? What holds them together and what causes them to shift off course? These are just two of the philosophical qu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMTHE GOOD-NATURED BUFFOONERY IN FORUM IS THE TONIC FOR WHAT AILS YOU A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, currently at Signature Theater, is knee-slapping farcical fun à la vaudev…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMSEEN THROUGH A LATINO CONTEXT, THE OTHER AMERICANS IS A UNIVERSAL GLIMPSE INTO FAMLY TRAUMA The world premiere of John Leguizamo’s newest endeavor, The Other Americans, directed by Ruben S…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMBEMUSING, DISAPPOINTING, SUPERFICIAL, AND FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS After all the hype about Matthew Broderick starring in the title role of Babbitt, presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company at…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:04PMAN EXCERCISE IN PURPOSEFUL FUTILITY Welcome to the world of underserved K-12 education where punitive actions abound with no end in sight. In Exception to the Rule, playwright Dave Harris (T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMWEAVING TOGETHER THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE JaJa’s African Hair Braiding – beginning a regional tour after Broadway success and Arena Stage’s season starter – is a peek into the immigr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56AMUNIVERSAL, YES, BUT ALSO ESOTERIC Who’s to say what constitutes a monumental event – something as vast as a meteor shower versus the provincial act of trying to go home again? This is th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56AMA TRIP THROUGH MICHAEL JACKSON’S TRIPPY LIFE For those who never had the chance to see Michael Jackson perform live, MJ — the current smash-hit Broadway jukebox musical now on tour at T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:10PMTHE CAMPY ABBA FEST IS BACK Still an over-the-top, campy, family-friendly entertainment, the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Mamma Mia!, currently at The Kennedy Center Opera House, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:53PMA FANTASIZED LOOK INTO BLACKNESS IN AMERICA The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe, currently at The Studio Theatre, is a wild, satirical glance into African-American experiences, dating back…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:23PMTHE KITE RUNNER FLIES HIGH AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Because the best-selling novel The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is so significant and well-revered, as is the 2007 movie screenpl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:25PMTHE MINDLESS SILLINESS WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEEDED Broadway Center Stage’s production of Bye Bye Birdie, the 1960 musical comedy smash currently at The Kennedy Center, is delightfully corny…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:19PMHAIR EXPLODES WITH ECSTACY AT SIGNATURE The 1967 “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” Hair, currently at The Signature Theatre through July 7 and directed by Matthew Gardiner, is an explo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:41PMAN EYE-OPENER Prior to Next to Normal at Round House Theatre a giant, obtrusive woman’s eye projected onto the back wall (projections by Nicholas Hussong) stares and blinks out at the aud…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:29PMA MYTH, A MESS, AND A MISS For all the hoopla that is Evita, save for the beautifully haunting ballad “Don’t Cry for me Argentina,” Shakespeare Theatre’s version, directed by Sammi C…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMSIGNATURE’S BRIDGES FREES VIEWERS TO BE HOPELESS ROMANTICS Given its syrupy and soaring sentimentalism, Robert James Waller’s very short 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was amaz…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:35PMWATCHING THIS MAY NOT ALWAYS BE FUN, BUT IT SURE FEELS LIKE HOME Fun Home, which opened yesterday at Studio Theatre, will likely touch even the most cynical of hearts. Deep but never sappy, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:40AMDAZZLED BY THE STARS UNDER THE STARS The third annual Broadway in the Park, produced by Signature Theater and Wolf Trap, showcased some of the best singing talent of the D.C. area and headli…
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