Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Eight 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 12:15PMMonday, March 30, 2015
You knew one day we’d get another look at Stephen Sondheim’s long-evolving musical “Bounce,” as it was called when it appeared in 2003 at the Kennedy Center, which originally commiss…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:36AMSunday, March 29, 2015
“Four buoyant and moving plays,” Post critic Peter Marks wrote of Richard Nelson’s “Apple Family” series when the first two — “That Hopey Changey Thing” and “Sweet and Sad�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:33PMThursday, March 26, 2015
The 2015-16 theater news is pouring in: Woolly Mammoth has settled on its slate of six characteristically edgy plays anchored by a Sheila Callaghan world premiere, Columbia’s Rep Stage has…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:27PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Tony Kushner’s epic “A Bright Room Called Day” takes place in a living room, but can you actually perform it in a living room? That’s the gambit by the upstart Nu Sass Productions as…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMThe temptations of Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play” include cameos by Elizabeth I, Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan, each briefly swanning through with a stateliness that keeps them well abov…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
When Anthony Warlow squares up and sings the title song in “Man of La Mancha,” you won’t find many people in Sidney Harman Hall complaining that the 1965 musical about fighting unbeata…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:20PMMonday, March 23, 2015
The songs in Nick Blaemire’s pleasantly quirky new musical “Soon” are driven by guitars and a keyboard, but it’s not quite a rock score. The music is full of strums and easygoing pul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:04PMFriday, March 20, 2015
When the Shakespeare Theatre Company expanded into the 775-seat Sidney Harman Hall in 2007, there was no way Artistic Director Michael Kahn could have known that a 22- year-old intern on a n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:45PMIs the bulldog conservative justice we see parading up and down the stage in “The Originalist” the Antonin Scalia? That’s a verdict for the Supreme Court justice’s intimates and clos…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:45PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Who is Angela Lansbury to you — Jessica Fletcher? Mame? Mrs. Lovett? Mrs. Potts?The 89-year-old wonder is currently Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s chestnut “Blithe Spirit,” and if a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Rabbi Menachem Youlus was known as the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his adventurous tales of rescuing Torahs from European sites that included prison camps. The sagas lent alluring cache t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:51PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Forget pratfalls and pies in the face, though Beth Henley’s oddball new “Laugh” certainly goes in for both. The bizarre-o sights in the premiere production at Studio Theatre include a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:19PMThe Olney Theatre Center has a major catch for next season: the premiere of “Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical” by Moises Kaufman, ringleader of the Tectonic Theater Project ( renowned …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:30AMFriday, March 13, 2015
Beth Henley, where ya been?Henley won a 1981 Pulitzer for the loopy “Crimes of the Heart,” and it felt like a long overdue reemergence when she scored an off-Broadway hit two years ago w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:55PMIt’s been seven years since the musical “Glory Days” catapulted from Signature Theatre to Broadway and went down in a blaze of, you know. The show, written by two 23-year-old local lad…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Two bits of news about the Helen Hayes Awards on April 6:It won’t be an open bar party like last year’s event in the National Building Museum’s atrium. Back into the theater, everyone!…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03PMFriday, March 6, 2015
In the case of Scalia v. Gero, Antonin Scalia stared down Edward Gero as the actor visited the Supreme Court to observe the justice at work.“We locked eyes for about 15 seconds,” says Ge…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:21PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Shhh! More “silent” Shakespeare is on tap from Synetic Theatre, which is bringing back two hits and creating a new wordless take on the Bard for its 2015-16 season. The year in DC theate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:58AMMonday, March 2, 2015
The wind comes sweepin’ down the plain in that famous song about Oklahoma, but the breeze will chill your blood in the emotionally fractured Kansas of the new musical “Kid Victory.” Th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:00PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
By the time we get to the year 3000 Baghdad is the capital of Britain, at least according to George Bernard Shaw’s astonishingly futuristic “Back to Methuselah.” But the setting is Ire…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AMFriday, February 20, 2015
There’s no argument: Women are dramatically underrepresented on Washington’s stages. So sayeth the overwhelming majority of D.C. area troupes, which will coalesce en masse this fall as a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:58PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Ford’s Theatre will balance a world premiere and vintage Americana — a musical and a cornerstone drama — in its 2015-16 season (with “A Christmas Carol” as its centerpiece, of cour…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Civilization crumbled to bits in Lisa D’Amour’s “Detroit,” the Pulitzer finalist about two struggling couples. Suburban routine gave way to alarmingly primitive impulses that Woolly …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:14PMFriday, February 13, 2015
If you’ve ever seen August Wilson’s bleak and angry “King Hedley II,” you remember its central image: an ex-con with a terrifying scar on his face trying like mad to get flowers to g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:33PMIn a Manhattan rehearsal studio, actors are learning songs for a new musical called “Kid Victory.” Sarah Litzsinger delivers a brief solo as a sarcastic Kansas teen, and legendary Broadw…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:24PMThursday, February 12, 2015
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MIXED EMOTIONS —Hello, suckers!“Chicago” is playing at the National Theatre this week through Sunday, and who cares? This is the fifth stint at the National sinc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:03PMA world premiere musical will give Arena Stage’s 2015-16 season an early launch this summer, as “If/Then” and “Next to Normal” director Michael Greif brings the brand-new “Dear E…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:02AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
The brainy “Metromaniacs”Is sharper than a thousand tacks.And funny? Man, it shakes the wallsOf Shakespeare Theatre’s Lansburgh hall.Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:56PMMonday, February 9, 2015
A winter blitz is hitting area stages, with enough on view to blanket every taste. At least nine shows opened over the weekend, and the three I caught included a lighthearted Mexican classic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:45PMFriday, February 6, 2015
“The Heidi Chronicles”: Dated or on point? Love it or hate it?Passions have always been heated around Wendy Wasserstein’s 1988 play, a panoramic sweep through the women’s movement fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:57PM 
