Thursday, 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 11:55AMMonday, May 18, 2015
How gently can you make a joke about a largely gay soccer team called Barely Athletic struggling to beat a squad of transgender players in heels? This kind of thing comes across as sweet and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:56PMSunday, May 17, 2015
In Arthur Miller’s great brass-tacks drama “The Price,” Victor, an honest cop, wants to play squarely with his brother Walter, a rich doctor he hasn’t seen in the 16 years since thei…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:04PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
In Tanya Barfield’s troubling drama “The Call,” Peter and Annie are hoping to adopt a baby. They’ve tried IVF with all of its hormone treatments and side effects (no luck), and now t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PMMonday, May 11, 2015
“Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea” is an uncommonly pretty show, a tropical vision of ocean blue and foam white. This isn’t just director Timothy Douglas dressing up the new 80-minute play…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMThe Folger Theatre will shake up its Shakespeare in 2015-16 with everything from a premiere piece using Elizabeth I’s words to a new “retelling” of “The Merchant of Venice” by Aaro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:06AMFriday, May 8, 2015
This morning I woke up in a curfew. / Oh, God, I was a prisoner, too.Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
The cool factor is fairly high in Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s new “Hamlet.” Taking the stage like fascist sci-fi rock stars, the cast is out to challenge you with Shakespeare’s �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:16PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Baltimore’s recent unrest is more than subtext in “Sunset Baby,” Dominique Morisseau’s unexpectedly timely drama about hardcore hustlers trying to get out of a dead-end neighborhood.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Our era’s curse is the phone, but theaters have a long tradition as rowdy places. In 17th-century France, Molière had to tolerate cocky, talkative VIPs who insisted on sitting on the st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:49PMBaltimore’s state of emergency and 10 p.m. curfew means earlier curtain times for theaters that aren’t cancelling shows (and most aren’t). 7 p.m. is the new starting time this week at …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:17AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Skip the lobby and head for the alley out back. Show your I.D. and see if your name’s on the list. Get your hand stamped and then trek up the stairs to a rowdy bar on the fourth floor, bec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:25PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Assassination and underground resistance are the subjects of two radically different 80-minute theatrical experiments in town now, both happening in tiny labs. Actor Joe Brack is playing Joh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:09PMAssassination and underground resistance are the subjects of two radically different 80-minute theatrical experiments in town now, both happening in tiny labs. Actor Joe Brack is playing Joh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:26PMMonday, April 20, 2015
“Motown the Musical” headlines the five shows announced for next season at the National Theatre, where 12 to 13 weeks of programming seems to be settling in as a norm. That’s an upgrad…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:46PMThe “if” in “Carousel’s” famous “If I Loved You” smolders with tension in the Olney Theatre Center’s big, thoughtful, musically rich production. In the muscular Tally Session…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:10PMThe “if” in “Carousel’s” famous “If I Loved You” smolders with tension in the Olney Theatre Center’s big, thoughtful, musically rich production. In the muscular Tally Session…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:05PMFriday, April 17, 2015
If there were plenty of rangy and surprising parts for black women on American stages, Katori Hall might not have become a playwright. But when she was at Barnard College in 2001, Hall and a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
What’s the “right” way to play Anton Chekhov? With your heart on your sleeve? Morose and weepy, cued by all the fruitless yearning and bitter regret rippling through the plays? Or, bec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:48PMSunday, April 12, 2015
What you get when you cross Christopher Durang with Anton Chekhov meets your best expectations from the king of anxious comedy and the master of Russian despair — gloom and guffaws. Durang…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:06PMFriday, April 10, 2015
Linda Levy announced Friday that she is retiring as president and CEO of Theatre Washington, the organization that runs the Helen Hayes Awards. Levy had spinal surgery in December, a procedu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:25PMThursday, April 9, 2015
The show won’t go on until the toe (and tendons) can go on. And the toe that actor Doug Brown badly cut onstage nearly two weeks ago still has not healed sufficiently for him to perform wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
A streetwise drama about star-crossed lovers from the Chinese Capulets and the black Montagues sounds pretty rich, doesn’t it? But Chad Beckim’s gritty “Lights Rise on Grace” doesn�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PMI feel hung over, and I didn’t even go to the party.49 awards in 70 minutes: that was the Helen Hayes Awards last night. With presenters rapidly reading nominees’ names but not the title…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:10PMMonday, April 6, 2015
The Kennedy Center’s “Side Show” and Signature Theatre’s “Sunday in the Park With George” tied for top musical honors at Monday night’s unusually swift Helen Hayes Awards — t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:44PMSunday, April 5, 2015
Why did Sheryl Crow and “Chicago” composer John Kander bring their very different new musicals to Arlington’s Signature Theatre this season? Lots of reasons, but none bigger than the f…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PMFriday, April 3, 2015
Why are we suddenly up to our samovars with Chekhov in general and “Uncle Vanya” in particular? Playwright Christopher Durang explains it all for you.“I don’t quite know,” he says.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Ari Roth’s Mosaic Theater Company is beginning to look like a company. Roth, fired as Theater J’s artistic director in December after mounting tension with the troupe’s parent organiza…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
The show is not going on the next few nights at Alexandria’s MetroStage as both actors in the two-person cast of “The Island” injured themselves last week. Producing artistic director …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMWhen you see the ads and buy tickets for those musicals you’ve heard about touring from Broadway, you never know if the show has a cast of Equity actors — members in the union. But you s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PMEight years after D.C. pulled together for the six month, 100-show Shakespeare in Washington festival, the city is at it again. The Women’s Voices Theater Festival is set for the fall, wit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15PM 
