Monday, 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's your c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
In Liz Maestri's "Inheritance Canyon" on Capitol Hill, a jolly band of buddies slowly realize they're trapped in some kind of mysterious government experiment. Meanwhile in Annapolis, the wo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:50PM[SHARE]Any list of premier actors in Washington has to put Dawn Ursula's name near the top, and the actress has been handed a dazzling showcase in the solo "Queens Girl in the World." Ursula plays …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:46PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
The Spanish Golden Age meets the Jazz Age in "Friendship Betrayed," a rarely staged 17th-century comedy that WSC Avant Bard has time-shifted rather easily to the Roaring Twenties. The cast i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Former City Paper publisher Amy Austin has been tapped as the new president and CEO of Theatre Washington, the service organization that runs the Helen Hayes Awards. Austin replaces longtime…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The Polish woman in "Ironbound" looks small on the epic Round House Theatre set, a looming grid of giant rusting I-beams in run-down Elizabeth, N.J. But her roar is huge in this gripping 90-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
"Are women's plays different?" NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg asked "Fun Home" writer Lisa Kron on Tuesday night."From each other?" Kron deadpanned. "Absolutely."The Kron-Stamberg …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:15AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2015
Bekah Brunstetter is a terrific catch for Bethesda's small Flying V Theatre. The Los Angeles-based writer enjoys steady work on a cable series ("Switched at Birth") and has a premiere slated…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
A nervous edge saturates Forum Theatre's just-announced 2015-16 season, while Washington Stage Guild's slate includes the final installment of its three year "Back to Methesulah" project.For…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
When the acclaimed new Tiananmen Square play "Chimerica" was selected to open Studio Theatre's new season, Beijing-born Helen Huang was a natural fit to design the costumes. She had emigrate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
That throat-clearing you hear is the Women's Voices Theater Festival, an unprecedented wave of world premiere plays by women that has already begun to take over Washington's stages. It's a c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Before the Benj Pasek-Justin Paul musical "Dear Evan Hansen" premiered at Arena Stage this summer, their show "Dogfight" ran off-Broadway in 2012. The fingerprints are the same: The stories …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
If your tolerance for corrosive behavior is high and you've been craving a musical version of Netflix's "House of Cards," "The Fix" may see you through. The show at Signature Theatre in Arli…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Rocker-actor-writer Rick Springfield was already onto his second phase of American stardom when his 1981 single "Jessie's Girl" went into heavy radio rotation and a craze emerged for "Genera…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:03PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Audiences weep at the new musical "Dear Evan Hansen," and they shed their tears for Ben Platt. The "Pitch Perfect" movie actor plays an anxious teen whose public profile accidentally goes vi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Adventure Theatre MTC is graduating from one-act kids' shows to a full-blown "Oliver!" at Bethesda's Round House Theatre, and what an unpleasant "Oliver!" it is " creepy, ultra-violent and p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
"One in the Chamber" is a play that has something to say but feels the stage is an inappropriate place to say it. Marja-Lewis Ryan's script simply wants to break your heart over an accidenta…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:56PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
The most ridiculously impossible ticket to get on Broadway right now is stamped "Hamilton," because of course everyone has just been dying for a musical steeped in public finance and nation-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Juliet is 70 in the Unexpected Stage Company's "Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age." Maturity is upside down in this show: Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers live in a nursing home, where th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit," sings the vengeful barber of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd." In Landless Theatre Company's "prog metal" version, Andrew Lloyd Baughma…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
The title of Hannibal Lecter's smutty opening song in "Silence! The Musical" is too dirty even to hint at, yet as Hannibal the Cannibal, Tally Sessions sings this sicko "I Want" song ridicul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
The play "Leto Legend" outperforms its premise. A comic-book adventure about the hassles of women trying to Have It All? Come on.Wit and good taste save the day in Kristen LePine's premiere …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:51PM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2015
Theatre Washington has been no stranger to controversy in recent years: Howls were raised as the former Helen Hayes Awards labored to transform into a full-time service organization and pain…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:50PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
How unsettled is comedy now? The name "Bill Cosby" isn't warmly funny anymore. Jon Stewart skips the opening jokes on "The Daily Show" after the June shooting that killed nine black people i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:23PM[SHARE]The Atlas Performing Arts Center has emerged as a crucial partner for the newly relocated Capital Fringe Festival; Nelson Pressley spends an afternoon there. Plus: Rebecca Ritzel has a bad t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Still charting the new network of Capital Fringe Festival venues in Northeast D.C., Peggy McGlone and Nelson Pressley trek to rough-edged bars and polished theaters for poetic fantasies and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
Post reporters Nelson Pressley and Peggy McGlone found their respective ways to some of the new Fringe venues in Northeast D.C. on Friday night. They discovered funky stages and questi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:15AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
MetroStage's remount of Athol Fugard's "The Island," postponed after a handful of performances this spring and announced for a return this week, has been cancelled. The drama is about two pr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:04PM[SHARE]The 10th-annual Capital Fringe Festival launched up and down Northeast D.C. on Thursday night, with nearly two dozen acts on stages from Trinidad to Brookland. This weekend we'll offer notes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
In the half-hour before the musical "Once" begins, you can hit the cash bar on the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater stage and hang out with musicians serving up foot-stomping songs. The p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
How do you move an annual summertime festival of 100-plus acts in dozens of downtown venues?Pretty easily, it seems. Capital Fringe has fully abandoned its makeshift warren of converted stor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PM[SHARE] 
