Friday, March 4, 2016
Benjamin Scheuer is a mesmerizing guitarist, and he tells his story strumming in his solo show “The Lion.” Scheuer pours his heart into his own coming-of-age tale, dealing with a difficu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:20PMThursday, March 3, 2016
The empowerment of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” doesn’t date, and the simmering verbal style of this 1976 “choreopoem�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:09PMFriday, February 26, 2016
Laurie Anderson endures as the poster child for performance art, although the wry sprite with spiky hair and an electric violin prefers the term “multimedia artist.” The writer-composer-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Rowdy comedies with a late-nite vibe can be catnip at the summertime Capital Fringe Festival, and why not? It’s a free-form, open invitation playground where the main rule is to get off th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:46PMFriday, February 19, 2016
Facts on the ground have changed since “The Promised Land” premiered in 2012 at Tel Aviv’s Habima Theatre: Israel has stemmed the flow of East African immigrants streaming into its cou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:51PMA show called “Wise Guys” was announced with fanfare in 1995 as the Kennedy Center commissioned Stephen Sondheim to write a new musical to premiere the following year, opening the 1996-9…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Nick Payne’s “Constellations” is based on the idea of a multiverse where all the possibilities are always playing out. Guy meets girl, and they’re too awkward to hit it off. Or they …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMFriday, February 12, 2016
The Murderers’ Row of talent lined up for the new “Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical” makes it one of the most anticipated premieres of D.C.’s theater season. Moisés Kaufman (“Th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:11PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
We knew that Romantic poet Lord Byron was a bad boy, but a sassy rock star? That’s how Sam Ludwig plays him in the premiere of “Monsters of the Villa Diodati” at the tiny Creative Caul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
The two simpletons yakking on the job look awfully familiar. Talking about how they are not supposed to be talking, they are Abbott and Costello doing “Who’s on first?” Philosophizing …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:45PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Moments after Thursday’s Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders debate ended, MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz whether she thought Repub…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
A jaded theater critic falls in with vampires in “St. Nicholas,” the popular monologue that helped make Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s name roughly 20 years ago. It has a couple th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:21PMMonday, February 1, 2016
Big established musicals and new plays by women lead a rangy field in the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards, announced Monday evening at the National Theatre. The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Ki…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PMSunday, January 31, 2016
The saga continues for the Shakespeare Theatre Company as it tries to consolidate its scattered operations into a new administrative facility two blocks from Arena Stage.On Wednesday, STC wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:34AMThursday, January 28, 2016
If you audition for a Thomas W. Jones II show with a standard tune from a Broadway musical, you may be told, “Great. Now, can you sing us something that’s not in that tradition? Because …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:58PMMonday, January 25, 2016
TOWSON — Center Stage aimed to open “As You Like It” Friday, but the company responded to the blizzard forecast and let critics in Thursday night. Nimbleness is the watchword for the t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:28PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Sisters Rosensweig” is a tough play: Wasserstein thought it was a Chekhovian drama but was surprised at how much early audiences laughed. It’s a drawing-room…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:37PMThursday, January 14, 2016
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” tidily wraps serial murder into an operetta packet with a big ribbon of farce. The 2013 show, touring through the end of this month at the Ke…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:42PMMonday, January 11, 2016
Ed Dixon has two distinct gears in his new backstage autobiography “Georgie: My Adventures With George Rose” — adoring, and aghast. For a pleasantly conversational hour, Dixon recalls …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMSunday, January 10, 2016
When and how did it all go so wrong in the Middle East? Aaron Davidman provides a breathtaking litany at the opening of his solo show “Wrestling Jerusalem.”“Golda blew it,” Davidman …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:22PMFriday, January 8, 2016
NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks interrupts herself to look up a word on her cellphone, because that’s the kind of thing the Pulitzer-winning playwright does. She’s playful yet exacting: Is…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:45PMFriday, January 1, 2016
Michael Kahn can quote the first review he ever got as a student director in the 1960s. It was cruel.“You remember the bad ones,” the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director sa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:26PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
It’s a rare year when D.C. theater generates a lot of news, but 2015 was that year. Artistic director Ari Roth launched a substantial new troupe after being fired last December by Theater …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:15PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
In “The Gospel of Lovingkindness,” playwright Marcus Gardley throws his arms around the appalling murder rate in Chicago. His plot is partly based on the tragedy of Hadiya Pendleton, a 1…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMIf you’d like an alternative to Washington’s seasonal shows and big musicals, Baltimore’s two most established theaters are keeping the new plays coming. The NFL’s concussion crisis …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMFriday, December 11, 2015
In a bit of bumbling political theater, Arlington’s Synetic Theater is being caricatured in Sen. James Lankford’s new “report” on government waste, “Federal Fumbles.” The report …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:50AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
You can feel when a director is in sync with a script, and that’s the situation with Tom Prewitt’s staging of Truman Capote’s “Holiday Memories.” Prewitt handles Capote’s nostalg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:55PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
The smooching is sensational in “Stage Kiss,” Sarah Ruhl’s backstage comedy about ex-lovers cast as the leads in a ditzy 1930s romance. In the amusing new Round House Theatre productio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:46PMIt’s not the season to be pitting versions of “A Christmas Carol” against one another. Interpretations of the Dickens classic must run into the thousands, and if you have a favorite �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:40PMThursday, December 3, 2015
Is there any chance that people buying tickets for “Motown the Musical” at the National Theatre don’t know exactly what they’re getting? Jukebox musicals are mechanical things, ritua…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:44PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
The enduring charm of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” has become more of a charm offensive now that it’s a full-blown Broadway show. Not to worry, though: Although the 1957 TV…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PM 
