Friday, 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 02:57PMThursday, February 5, 2015
With a lineup that includes the vintage musical “Kiss Me, Kate” and an all-male “Taming of the Shrew” starring “Kinky Boots” Tony winner Billy Porter, the Shakespeare Theatre Com…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:05PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Macbeth is dead. What’s next? In David Greig’s imaginative and ferociously topical “Dunsinane,” the English army occupies a hostile and internally fragmented Scotland. Faster than yo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Are the fine lines between second- and third-wave feminism really the stuff of explosive comedy? They are in Gina Gionfriddo’s uproarious and unsettling “Rapture, Blister, Burn” at the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:37PMMonday, February 2, 2015
It takes a lot of shady maneuvering to get the two queens of Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 “Mary Stuart” to the center of the chessboard, but when it finally happens the showdown is deluxe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:36PMFriday, January 30, 2015
The new show “Kid Victory” sets up as harsh material for a musical: It’s about a 17-year-old boy who goes missing, and what happens after his brutal time away.Read full article >&#…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
How good was the red-hot Bessie Smith tribute “Bessie’s Blues” when the Studio Theatre produced it in 1995?“The Studio may well produce something of this artistic power again,” cri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:19PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Washington theater’s Helen Hayes Awards flexed its new bulk Monday night at the National Theatre as its dramatically expanded nominations were announced under not one heading, but two: Hel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:25PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Kate Eastwood Norris and Holly Twyford have played it all at the Folger Theatre — women, men, fairies and even animals. Once Twyford played Crab, a dog belonging to Norris’s clownish cha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:34PMActors dash madly from rainy London to the famous foggy mire in “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” the antic new Ken Ludwig comedy now racing with precision through Arthur Conan D…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMAny self-respecting city, and certainly a sophisticated world capital, needs a few big companies daring to do big, serious theater. Can the Shakespeare Theatre Company and Arena Stage afford…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The sound and fury over the D.C. Jewish Community Center’s firing of Theater J artistic director Ari Roth last month has been supplanted by a fusillade of f-bombs from the stage. But the s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57PMFriday, January 16, 2015
The embers are not merely warm but still hot from the D.C. Jewish Community Center’s firing of Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth late last month. The conflict was long-simmering and amp…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
The $12 million production of “Gigi” that begins performances Friday at the Kennedy Center has landed its Broadway date. On March 19, it will dock at the Neil Simon Theatre, where Sting�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:18PMFriday, January 9, 2015
“If/Then,” the musical that brought a welcome shot of pre-Broadway excitement to the National Theatre when it tried out here in 2013, will say goodbye to New York March 22, closing as st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:52PMThe Warner Theatre, typically a comedy and concert venue, is taking a new interest in booking Broadway musical tours. What’s on stage there now and coming soon this winter are non-Equity s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PMThe refashioned “Gigi” bounding into the Kennedy Center this week with a Broadway glint in its eye is a passion project from two women — both new to musicals — who have long adored t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:37PMThursday, January 8, 2015
Is the Kennedy Center’s Opera House the right stage for the noisy, flashy hocus-pocus act that is hawking its tricks there through Sunday? The question is not whether “The Illusionists: …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:17PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
So “The Last Ship” is sinking, and questions are afloat as to why. Sting’s earnest, personal musical about his childhood in an English shipbuilding town is generally respected. The sco…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38AMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Sting’s Broadway fling will end Jan. 24 as “The Last Ship” docks for good. The original musical, based on Sting’s childhood in a Northeast England shipbuilding town, has been a perso…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15PMMonday, December 29, 2014
The frisky holiday theater season, prancing with musicals and piping with cheer, is sobering up this week with the intense Christian voyage “The Great Divorce.” In this high-minded C.S. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:05PMMonday, December 22, 2014
$12.50: that’s what Washington’s small non-Equity theaters will need to pay actors per day for rehearsal if they want their shows to be eligible for Helen Hayes Awards, along with meetin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:14PMFriday, December 19, 2014
The person who steals the spotlight in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Kennedy Center isn’t Ace Young as Joseph or his wife, Diana DeGarmo, as the singing narrato…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PMThursday, December 18, 2014
To entertain you the Tony-winning revival of “Pippin” at the National Theatre jumps through hoops, swings from trapezes and catches bodies flopping down from the heights. It’s a circus…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:40PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
You remember the Looney Tunes cartoon where Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd change character with each stray hat that blows onto their heads? That’s the idea behind Matthew R. Wilson’s brisk a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:35AMFriday, December 12, 2014
“Come look at the freaks,” goes the opening number of the star-crossed musical “Side Show.”“No thanks,” Broadway audiences say again and again.Lightning has struck down “Side S…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38PMThursday, December 11, 2014
New YorkBarry Levinson is settled into a booth at the diner. He’s waiting on a burger and a diet Coke, and just like Shrevie, he’s riffing about the hit records of 1959. ¶ “Listen to …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:12PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Puppets meet untimely ends in “Famous Puppet Death Scenes,” a 2005 show by Canada’s Old Trout Puppet Company that begins Dec. 9 at Woolly Mammoth. The titles of the scenes — a “gre…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:15PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
A standing ovation came at an unexpected moment Tuesday night as Donny and Marie Osmond began their week-long stand at the National Theatre. A video montage during a low-key ballad chronicle…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:16PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
“The Nutcracker” now at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre is not the ballet, yet it’s not quite a musical, and the jolly family Christmas party that opens the show is quickly shadowed b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMFriday, November 28, 2014
Now is the winter we thank heaven for little girls, for January will bring audiences not one “Gigi,” but two. The Kennedy Center’s new stage version of the 1958 Lerner and Loewe movie …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:27PM 
