Tuesday, 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“Kiss Me, Kate” is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s big, new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMYou may remember “Akeelah and the Bee” as the smart, feel-good 2006 movie about an 11-year-old girl struggling through her tough L.A. neighborhood to triumph at the national spelling bee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMMonday, November 30, 2015
In a fitting finish for Theater Alliance’s “Black Nativity,” the last thing drummer Jonathan Livas did during Sunday’s opening was knock a cymbal clear off its stand. Top to bottom, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:32PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
“Kiss Me, Kate” is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s big new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:38PMMonday, November 23, 2015
“A nervous romance” was the great tag line for Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” and “an anxious comedy” would nicely fit Stephen Karam’s “Sons of the Prophet” at Theater J. Th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PMSunday, November 22, 2015
You may remember “Akeelah and the Bee” as the smart, feel-good 2006 movie about an 11-year-old girl struggling through her tough L.A. neighborhood to triumph at the national spelling bee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMThursday, November 19, 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 03:24PMMonday, November 16, 2015
By the time the Olney Theatre Center’s bright, lively new “Guys and Dolls” gets to the jubilant gospel knockoff “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” the night’s an easy winne…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:31PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Sir David Hare is almost certainly the premiere political dramatist writing in English, yet last weekend he slinked through Washington almost unnoticed. Not that it bothered him: By now, the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:27PMSets with walls will block the audience’s views when your theater is in the round, so designs in Arena Stage’s signature Fichandler work differently, in full-blown and fine-grained 3-D. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:22PMThursday, November 12, 2015
If you don’t mind “Oliver!” doing drug deals, it’s a fine show.The twisted “Oliver!” that opened at Arena Stage Wednesday night keeps a toe in Charles Dickens’s London and the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Food is served and lives quietly fall apart in the incredibly intimate “Sorry” and “Regular Singing,” the final installments of Richard Nelson’s four-play Apple Family Cycle. Studi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival is winding down, and by luck of the scheduling draw it is circling back to two troupes that produce women’s scripts all the time. Laurel’s Venus The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:00AMMonday, November 2, 2015
“Winners and Losers” is a competitive dialogue between two buddies who rank things into two inflexible categories: winners and losers. Microwaves? Winner, says James Long, calling his ap…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
If you’re ever asked to name a playwright who can really spin a yarn, say “Conor McPherson.” The Irish dramatist has been unwinding spellbinders for two decades now – ghost tales, mo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:38PMFriday, October 23, 2015
If you have Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche playing a classical heroine, why resist turning your Greek stage tragedy into a big screen epic?Acclaimed Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMVerve, panache, moxie: Those are some of the words conjured by Donna Migliaccio’s bright, sassy style. It’s a signature she has forged on musical theater stages for more than two decades…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:40AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Arena Stage has singled out a substantial American character to put on the stage in Erma Bombeck, the popular newspaper columnist and best-selling humorist who was a wry presence from the 19…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:57PM“I tell you — you can’t imagine what the thing is really like!” gasps a man who has disappeared into a cavern in “Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite,” a nostalgic, small-scaled creep sho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:10PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
No doubt Northern Irish playwright and Belfast native Rosemary Jenkinson knows her political infighting, the loyalists and Protestants and paramilitary subgroups/crime rings that apparently …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:53PMMonday, October 19, 2015
Ten months after firing longtime artistic director Ari Roth, Theater J has named Adam Immerwahr to replace him. Currently the associate artistic director of McCarter Theatre Center in Prince…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:10PMFriday, October 16, 2015
What exactly is it that the seven companies behind the Women’s Voices Theater Festival have in common? Marketing. And Margaritas.A monthly meeting over drinks has been an informal standard…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMIt would be easy to be blasé about the Women’s Voices Theater Festival that has taken over Washington’s stages. New plays? Written by women? In 2015 America? You don’t say.In many way…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMFriday, October 9, 2015
George Rose’s life included Tony Awards in the 1970s and 1980s for the musicals “My Fair Lady” and “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” His death came violently in 1988 under murky circum…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AMThursday, October 8, 2015
Small talk looms large in three intimate shows playing as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. A grown woman deals with her hospitalized mother in Christine Evans’s imaginative �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Structuring the puzzle is the trouble with “Animal,” a quizzical new play at Studio Theatre. It’s a medical mystery that plunges you right into the mind-set of a woman named Rachel who…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Don’t go into “Bad Dog” lightly, and don’t be fooled by its easy-access sitcom style. Yes, the dialogue by TV writer Jennifer Hoppe-House (“Nurse Jackie,” “Grace and Frankie”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:38PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Don’t touch the art. That’s the cardinal rule in museums, especially with masterpieces such as Rembrandt’s “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer” hanging on the walls. But in Jessica Dic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
By the end of “Phoebe in Winter” the stage at Single Carrot Theatre is so trashed that Friday’s opening night audience couldn’t exit the way they had entered, across the set. That’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PMMonday, September 28, 2015
“Destiny of Desire” wants to be your guilty pleasure. Her eyes flutter and her bosom heaves, but you resist even though you don’t yet recognize the horrible truth — ay, caramba, she�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:03AM 
