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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Women’s Voices notes: An exotic ‘Imogen’ and a down-home ‘Hound’ by Nelson Pressley

Pointless moves uptown, and Cefaly’s plays shift from Baltimore to D.C.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PM
Friday, January 19, 2018

The NFL’s best touchdown celebrations of the season — as picked by a theater critic by Nelson Pressley

The League relaxed a rule, and players teamed up to get creative.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:42AM
Thursday, January 18, 2018

DC Theater Friday: The city festival grows by Nelson Pressley

Richard Thomas and Pamela Reed sparkle in ‘The Humans.’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PM
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Constellation’s ‘Skin of Our Teeth’ misses by just a hair by Nelson Pressley

Thornton Wilder’s shaggy 1942 play renders chaos as timeless.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PM
Thursday, January 11, 2018

DC Theater Friday: Tony winner ‘The Humans’ arrives at Kennedy Center by Nelson Pressley

‘Sovereignty,’ ‘The Way of the World’ and ‘The Wolves’ swell Women’s Voices.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PM
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

New ‘Queens Girl’ memoir revisits 1960s U.S. and Nigeria by Nelson Pressley

The solo show with Erika Rose begins D.C.’s second Women’s Voices Theater Festival

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PM
Thursday, January 4, 2018

DC Theater Friday: Women’s Voices Theater Festival 2.0 gears up by Nelson Pressley

At the Kennedy Center, ‘The Humans’ and ‘On Your Feet!’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:36PM

Second Women’s Voices Theater Festival arrives as #MeToo is in the spotlight by Nelson Pressley

Female playwrights talk about leveling the stage amid a changing landscape.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:36PM

‘Smash’ writer Rebeck brings a new ‘The Way of the World’ to D.C. by Nelson Pressley

Backstage musicals, Restoration comedies, Weinstein: It’s all sex, money, power.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PM

Women’s Voices festival 2.0 launches with Caleen Sinnette Jennings’s memoir by Nelson Pressley

New chapter of “Queens Girl” recalls the 1960s in the United States and Nigeria.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:06AM
Thursday, December 21, 2017

DC Theater Friday: Ringing out the year by Nelson Pressley

Holiday bets from Gershwin ‘Crazy For You’ to serious Second City

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:54PM
Thursday, December 14, 2017

DC Theater Friday: ‘An American in Paris’ glides in by Nelson Pressley

‘Christmas Carols,’ Gunderson plays and ‘Crazy for You’ hum along

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:06PM

Chicago theaters say ‘Not in Our House’ to sexual abuse by Nelson Pressley

The grass-roots program, a declaration of standards, is getting a chapter in Washington.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

A comic ‘Santaland’ needs frost by Nelson Pressley

The David Sedaris standby makes a comedy club appearance.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PM
Monday, December 11, 2017

The book on Lauren Gunderson, topping U.S. theater charts by Nelson Pressley

‘The Book of Will’ and ‘The Revolutionists’ showcase the laugh-and-think formula.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PM
Friday, December 8, 2017

In theater, 10 to remember by Nelson Pressley

A vote for politics — and it’s a good year when the National Theatre’s active.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:06AM
Thursday, December 7, 2017

DC Theater Friday: Of Christmas shows and deep dramas by Nelson Pressley

Liv Ullmann brings a Bergman memoir to Washington.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PM

Bergman’s ‘Private Confessions’: Portrait of the artist’s mother’s affair by Nelson Pressley

Liv Ullmann directs the National Theater of Norway at the Kennedy Center.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PM
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

‘Draw the Circle’ puts a surprising frame on a transgender story by Nelson Pressley

Writer-performer Deen’s solo show features a clever sleight of hand.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PM
Monday, December 4, 2017

Warmhearted ‘Curve of Departure’ hits Studio’s strike zone by Nelson Pressley

Slice-of-life drama looks at one extended family’s night in a hotel room.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PM
Thursday, November 30, 2017

‘Amazing Grace’ lumbers into the new Museum of the Bible by Nelson Pressley

Where’s the orchestra? Cue the computer.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:24PM

No actors and no director: Bulgarian theater experiment 'The State' tells us who we are by Nelson Pressley

A Bulgarian experiment in political theater makes its U.S. debut.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PM

Ingmar Bergman’s muse, Liv Ullmann, brings his ‘Private Confessions’ to Kennedy Center by Nelson Pressley

“His words are so good. He always wanted to be best known as a writer, which he was not.”

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:33AM
Thursday, November 23, 2017

DC Theater Friday: ‘Mean Girls’ is an apex predator by Nelson Pressley

A hip ‘Twelfth Night’ takes off at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PM
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

In D.C. theater, Amber McGinnis is rising through the directing ranks by Nelson Pressley

“The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” at Theater J, adds to her growing résumé.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PM
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017

Felonius Munk’s ‘Nothing to Lose’ is a Second City winner by Nelson Pressley

Telling the truth with laughs about everything from jail to comedy.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:24PM

‘Nina Simone’ raises a fist at Arena Stage by Nelson Pressley

The prickly musical portrait is set in a 1963 bombed Alabama church.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AM
Thursday, November 16, 2017

DC Theater Friday: ‘Crazy for You’ and new Second City by Nelson Pressley

Comedian Felonius Munk comes clean at Woolly Mammoth.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PM
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

A liberal hits the road to play heartlanders in ‘The Real Americans’ by Nelson Pressley

Dan Hoyle’s solo show, now in D.C., has channeled U.S. frictions since 2010.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AM

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