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Thursday, June 29, 2017

DC Theater Friday: Second City satire and Olney’s ‘My Fair Lady’ by Nelson Pressley

The Sizzlin’ Summer Nights cabaret series returns to Signature Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PM

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A Second City satire returns to the Kennedy Center, quick hitting but less biting by Nelson Pressley

The jokes are kindler and gentler (but still good) in this “Almost Accurate Guide to America.”

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:36PM

Thursday, June 22, 2017

DC Theater Friday: ‘The Sound of Music’ and other favorite things by Nelson Pressley

‘My Fair Lady’ starts at Olney; ‘School for Wives’ continues at Shakespeare

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:32PM

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

‘Broken Glass’: Arthur Miller’s hotline from Germany to Brooklyn by Nelson Pressley

Aaron Posner gives the medical-political mystery a high-energy examination at Theater J.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PM

Treem drama details domestic violence in the era of women’s liberation by Nelson Pressley

TV writer of ‘The Affair’ shows a knack for nuanced women.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PM

Friday, June 16, 2017

Touring ‘Sound of Music’ is as fundamental as do-re-mi by Nelson Pressley

The traditional staging is a Rodgers and Hammerstein shrine.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24PM

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs by Nelson Pressley

The 1998 punk rock musical still wigs out.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:42PM

DC Theater Friday: August Wilson’s flame still burns by Nelson Pressley

Two Wilson shows open, and the annual Source Festival rolls along.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PM

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

How August Wilson learned about life and writing by Nelson Pressley

As Eugene Lee portrays the playwright at Round House, his “Ma Rainey” is revived at 1st Stage.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PM

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

An unsettled Israeli-Palestinian relationship in ‘The Return’ by Nelson Pressley

Two-character drama is the latest in Mosaic’s Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:06PM

Friday, June 9, 2017

How Howard Shalwitz led Woolly Mammoth’s stampede by Nelson Pressley

The theater company’s brand will be hard to outrun.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:33PM

Thursday, June 8, 2017

DC Theater Friday: Bless my eyes, it’s ‘School for Lies’ by Nelson Pressley

‘Hedwig’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ waltz into the Kennedy Center side by side

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PM

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

First ladies on the edge in two plays and a musical by Nelson Pressley

Martha Washington, Mary Lincoln and Laura Bush get dubious turns in the limelight.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:33PM

Friday, June 2, 2017

Show tunes on the summer breeze by Nelson Pressley

Remembering the sound of music from a Michigan amphitheater.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PM

Thursday, June 1, 2017

DC Theater’s 2017-18 seasons: KenCen in full, Rebeck and Bedlam at Folger by Peter Marks and Nelson Pressley

Full details on KenCen’s ‘Hamilton’-powered slate.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:36PM

DC Theater Friday: Dark comedy with Taylor Mac, tragedy with ‘Lear’ by Nelson Pressley

Plays dominate the week, but you can sing (silently) with ‘Superstar’ at Signature

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PM

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

‘King Lear’ with Rick Foucheux is a family meltdown by Nelson Pressley

The staging is rough and semi-ready, but the acting is smart.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PM

Thursday, May 25, 2017

DC Theater Friday: What’s the buzz? Tell you what’s a happenin’. by Nelson Pressley

From Lloyd Webber’s ‘Superstar’ to timely health care crisis monologues.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:36PM

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Mosaic’s ‘Ulysses on Bottles’ uncorks Israel’s occupied mind by Nelson Pressley

The protest play deals with a jailed teacher who had tried taking books to Gaza.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:18PM

Milligan’s health-care monologues give voice to patient and doctor by Nelson Pressley

Info-packed dramas, handily performed in Congress’s neighborhood.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PM

Friday, May 19, 2017

Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ by Nelson Pressley

Shakespeare’s soaring tragedy crowns a decades-long Washington theater career

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AM

Thursday, May 18, 2017

DC Theater Friday: ‘Superstar’ steps in, ‘Ragtime’ wraps up by Nelson Pressley

Schenkkan’s politically hot ‘Building the Wall’ moves to Forum’s Silver Spring base

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:36PM

Signature’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looks hip and sounds vintage by Nelson Pressley

Lloyd Webber’s early rock opera continues to ask: How high can you sing?

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PM

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Broadway veteran Florence Lacey stars in new musical ‘Kaleidoscope’ by Nelson Pressley

A perceptive performance as a star on tour and battling dementia.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PM

Monday, May 15, 2017

The 2017 Helen Hayes Awards Recipients by Nelson Pressley

A list of winners for each category and the honoree for the Helen Hayes Tribute

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18PM

‘Come From Away’ primes Tony pump with Hayes win by Nelson Pressley

Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s all-male “for colored girls” companion earns five prizes for Theater Alliance

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18PM

Thursday, May 11, 2017

DC Theater Friday: From ‘In the Heights’ to ‘Arabian Nights’ by Nelson Pressley

Last chance: ‘Fun Home’ at the National and ‘The Magic Play’ in Olney

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:06PM

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Keegan and Constellation shine on their historic D.C. stages by Nelson Pressley

Small troupes mark anniversaries with Shanley’s Irish comedy and ‘Arabian Nights.’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PM

Thursday, May 4, 2017

DC Theater Friday: A Trump week with ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Building the Wall’ by Nelson Pressley

‘Ragtime’ and 'Fun Home’ keep on truckin’ downtown

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PM

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ by Nelson Pressley

The unrest is somewhere in Africa, with meddlers intruding from the West.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PM

Monday, May 1, 2017

Schenkkan’s ‘Wall’ imagines Trump consequences. Disaster! by Nelson Pressley

Dark two-character drama gets onstage under the wire for the first 100 days.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:24PM

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