Friday, 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 musica…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
The setup is classic: One man tries to be in two places at once; comedy ensues. Meet Matthew Wilson, who is directing "One Man, Two Guvnors" for 1st Stage while gearing up for his own solo s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
The time warp happens pretty fast in "Five Guys Named Moe" at Arena Stage: One minute a 1940s drunk named Nomax is moping about troubles with his gal, and the next he is getting advice from …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
When last seen on Broadway in 2009, Disney's $15 million musical "The Little Mermaid" was quietly sinking under the waves after a run of less than two years. A planned major national tour of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
Tevye the milkman has been played by countless performers since "Fiddler on the Roof" began its long Broadway history 50 years ago, yet at Arena Stage Jonathan Hadary acts the part like it w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:45PM[SHARE]How do you reconcile the jazzy 1940s-50s musical revue "Five Guys Named Moe" with a futuristic play about America's first gay president enduring a zombie apocalypse? "There is no reconciliat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
Tony Kushner is frequently cited as the country's leading working playwright, so it's more than slightly alarming to hear the "Angels in America" playwright say, "I don't want to lose my han…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13AM[SHARE]Playwrights control their scripts. Screenwriters have a union and health insurance. Tony Kushner, playwright ("Angels in America") and screenwriter ("Lincoln") talks about these and other di…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
Thekid in the anguished new drama "Not Enuf Lifetimes" is jumpy but lovable, a dreamy do-gooder and a hip-hop buff. Your heart immediately goes out to him as he buys his baffled working clas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
The "Julius Caesar" now playing at Folger Theatre is haunted, funereal and apparently eternal " a "Caesar" bubbling up from the pits of hell. Director Robert Richmond has set the play in a g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:50PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
Acting isn't a punch-the-clock job, yet performers are contractors, hired show by show. Cast members typically share dressing rooms, and most keep their "stations" in front of the mirror pre…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
"I want to communicate," goes an early chorus of the musical "Visible Language," and that fundamental message is delivered in song, American Sign Language and even supertitles projected abov…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
Two moments stand out from Friday's opening of "Our War," a new collection of short dramatic responses to the Civil War. One moment is a splendidly vivid tale of a rooster and a slave by Lyn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
NEW YORK " The sky over Central Park brightens Sheldon Harnick's living room, a spacious haven more than a dozen floors above Manhattan's streets. Misty, colorful paintings by Harnick's wife…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2014
For some theater people, limelight is clearly a tonic. "Fiddler on the Roof" lyricist Sheldon Harnick still cuts a natty, lively figure " and at 90, he's still writing. Also flaunting stamin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Notes from Signature Theatre's cast-of-thousands 25th anniversary concert Monday night, an event that featured 70 artists, a full orchestra, flashbacks from favorite musicals, and knockout p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
NEW YORK " Just around the corner from Broadway, the Kennedy Center's original new musical "Little Dancer" is under construction. A waltz tune fills the bright rehearsal studio, and director…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
Baltimore: where the theater is weird, the tickets are cheap and the world is going to hell. That's the snapshot as some of Bal'mer's small but rising troupes opened shows last weekend " pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Has Synetic Theater worked its proficiency for hardcore, cold-blooded sensations into a dull groove? The renowned physical troupe spins and writhes and floods its Crystal City stage with sha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
Could Arthur Miller have written "Death of a Salesman" if Clifford Odets hadn't come out first with "Awake and Sing!"? Maybe: In the 1930s, the Depression-rattled American theater churned wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PM[SHARE]For more than a quarter of a century, Washington has had a recurring dream of an "Elmer Gantry" musical. The show, based on Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel " perhaps better known as the 1960 Bur…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
That politically ambitious spitfire Evita and her crocodile tears have returned, and her reappearance at the Kennedy Center's Opera House is magisterial. The settings around her are stately.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Steady there. Easy does it. We're just moseying to the Piggly Wiggly, or creeping crosstown for a comically dreaded family visit. Leave the fussing to that prim and addled back-seat driver. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:58PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
The mini plays are nearly upstaged by the tiny houses in "Tiny House Plays," a 90-minute theater piece and house tour set in the aggressively downsized enclave called Boneyard Studios. In a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
Howard County's Glenelg High School sits only 35 miles from the Kennedy Center, but actress Caroline Bowman has taken the long way around " you know, stopping on Broadway. And in Turkey. And…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
The spectacle of Marie Antoinette in a striped bikini certainly announces a brash updated view of the notorious French queen at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. In the lively extravaganza of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
'You lead a dissipated life," Marie Antoinette's mother railed in a 1775 letter to her royal daughter. "I hope I shall not live to see the disaster that is likely to ensue." "I know people t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The National Theatre is adding a burst of star power to its theatrical lineup this season in the ageless form of Dame Angela Lansbury. Next March the five-time Tony Award winner and TV icon …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Jayne Houdyshell was well into her 40s when she took the gamble of her life. Abandoning the sturdy connections she had forged over two decades performing throughout the East and Midwest, she…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Like a faded postcard, "Fool for Love" at Round House Theatre has capably captured that vintage Sam Shepard desperation-at-the-edge-of-the-desert look. Meghan Raham's set deliberately cramps…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
Musicals have always been the bottom line for John Hance and Maggie Boland. He's the Kennedy Center's general manager for theater productions, including the retooled "Side Show" that's bound…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PM[SHARE] 
