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 06:13PMThe budget passed Tuesday by the D.C. Council includes up to $200,000 in funding for “researching and drafting a first-ever unified cultural plan for the District,” to use language on t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
On Friday night, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton attended a ribbon-cutting for the renovated Keegan Theatre downtown. On Saturday, rains flooding Pepco conduits overflowed into Keegan’s ne…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:50PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
An escape artist gets locked inside a water tank in “Impossible! A Happenstance Circus,” and it’s ridiculously suspenseful and witty because . . . well, there’s no actual water. It�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMMonday, June 29, 2015
Playing a stage-struck Führer in the great Mel Brooks number “Springtime for Hitler,” Jason Graae beams like a rocket headed straight for showbiz heaven. The eyes twinkle and the smile …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMThursday, June 25, 2015
The Arena Stage production of “Camp David” is making its Broadway dreams plain: On Thursday producers announced hopes to take journalist Lawrence Wright’s drama to the Great White Wa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMFriday, June 12, 2015
The media circus around a fictional L.A. terror attack is the subject of Timothy Guillot’s “The Word and the Wasteland,” but the play isn’t the only thing — not the way the Source …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:57PMThursday, June 11, 2015
A real-life sex-trafficking scheme is the subject of the new tango-infused musical “Las Polacas: The Jewish Girls of Buenos Aires,” and Mariano Vales’s spidery score is a good match fo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:04PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
“Newsies sell papes.” That’s the chesty declaration of the scrappy newsboys hawking papers in 1899 New York in the uplifting Disney musical “Newsies.” These adorably rough-edged la…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:53PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
The grim and striking “Tartuffe” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company strides furiously into the explosive debate about faith and comedy. It’s a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMMonday, June 8, 2015
First things first: it was a big night for “Fun Home,” the daring musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel. The play based on the memoir of family life and growing up gay took h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:46AMAs far as infomercials go, this evening’s Tony telecast was pretty painless. The goal was crystal clear, as always: Showcase the musicals! Even shows barely (or not) nominated — “Gig…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34AMSunday, June 7, 2015
Even with Kristin Chenoweth popping out from under a giant hoop skirt worn by co-host Alan Cumming, the first hour of the Tony Awards has shaped up to be one of the least wince-worthy in mem…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24PMOur first thought while watching the 2015 Tony Awards? We didn’t tune in to see Alan Cumming’s knees. Cummings’ short trousers weren’t a great look on the red carpet, where Sting (w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48PMThursday, June 4, 2015
“Newsies” flopped at the multiplex in 1992, so nobody could have guessed that the live- action Disney movie musical about scrappy street urchins would someday become a Broadway hit. Afte…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:20PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Thornton Wilder’s experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane “Ubu Roi” scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:02PMLucy Kirkwood’s “NSFW” may not be deep but it is bright, which makes it a good mirror to the men’s and women’s magazines it attacks.Doghouse, a London “lads mag,” inadvertently…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:26PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Writer uses small cast, golf milieu to skewer country club culture
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMCan you Fringe from the Center? That's the question posed by "On the Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh," a brief sampling of works from the sprawling annual arts festival in Scotland now playing not …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAn informal but enthusiastic Tammy Grimes fan club convened Saturday night at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and they knew who -- and what -- they wanted. Grimes, a Tony winner for h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMNorm Lewis seemed to arrive at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater from around 1962 on Saturday night. The Broadway stalwart dared to confess his early influences as Lawrence Welk and the R…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM"Some of the work has been very, very impactful," says Moises Kaufman, who directed "I Am My Own Wife" on Broadway. "These are works that over the last decade have been among the most perfor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMA hazard of being a Washington stage actress: It can isolate you from your female peers.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAlice McDermott doesn't have to adapt. The Bethesda-based novelist has no taste for collaboration, and that chased her away from theater and toward fiction years ago, despite an affinity for…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMOne way to measure Center Stage's departing artistic director, Irene Lewis, is by the way she gauges audience response to her current - and final - show there, Harold Pinter's "The Homecomin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMA rare angle on race is the subject of "Tether," a new two-character drama now being presented by the Doorway Arts Ensemble. The play is about two sisters: twin girls, different races.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMSome actors write, and some writers act. Harold Pinter was supremely praised for his acting forays, and Sam Shepard's face is as well-known as his plays thanks to a durable on-screen career.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMEverybody gets wet in Abi Basch's "Voices Underwater," a lyrical ghost story involving a flood tide of Civil War history. A young couple - white woman, black man - arrive late one rainy nigh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can’t even tell themselves apart in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” Tom Stoppard’s famous 1960s mashup of “Hamlet” and “Waiting for Godot.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:10PMThursday, May 21, 2015
“The Letters” is a drama of thought control in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and it’s a good one — a slick 75 minutes with a Hitchcock-like grip. There are just two characters in John W. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AM 
