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…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PMThursday, September 4, 2014
A movie star, a rock star, a prima ballerina, a TV-stage-film comedienne and a soul legend who has been serenaded by President Obama make up this year’s class of Kennedy Center Honorees, t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMFriday, August 29, 2014
It’s nearly September — are you ready for some football? With dancing? That’s the unlikely combo in an Olney Theatre Center rehearsal room as director Will Davis drills “Colossal,”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMThursday, August 28, 2014
Terri Allen, executive director of the D.C. Cabaret Network, a group that has promoted cabaret-style entertainment in the region since 1997, died Aug. 22 at a hospital in Washington. She was…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:52PMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Jay Leno will be sociably sassed by fellow TV staples as he accepts the Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. 19. Wednesday the Kennedy Center named a ha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:10AMFriday, August 22, 2014
Last winter, 20-year-old Jersey girl Jillian Mueller was a bright point of light in “Flashdance,” the national tour that swiveled through the Kennedy Center. Mueller powered through the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Baltimore’s historic 1885 Mercantile Trust and Deposit building has spent most of the 21st century remodeled as a mega-nightclub, ripe for hundreds of revelers grooving to deep beats. Yet …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07PMFriday, August 8, 2014
The Shakespeare Theatre Company maintains two major stages, Sidney Harman Hall and the Lansburgh Theatre, a few blocks apart in Penn Quarter. They are the public face of the acclaimed operat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMSunday, August 3, 2014
Now 84, the colossus of the American musical theater has spent the past two decades being celebrated in nearly every conceivable way, from star-studded tribute concerts to having a theater n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:05AMFriday, August 1, 2014
“God. I mean, the man’s a god,” Stephen Sondheim puckishly wrote in the 2010 Broadway revue “Sondheim on Sondheim,” sending up the long ascending, stratospheric image of himself th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:55PMThe progressive metal arrangements are ready for “Sweeney Todd,” the throat-slitting musical thriller that’s getting a headbanging musical arrangement this month by D.C.’s Landless T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:37PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
What do you do about a fifth-grade Marquis de Sade? That’s the question that playwright Johnna Adams eventually comes around to in her popular but erratic 75-minute drama “Gidion’s Kno…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:39AMMonday, July 21, 2014
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a giant box of pornographic videotapes may encounter trouble with his wife. In the Capital Fringe Festival comic dr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AMFriday, July 18, 2014
“It all started at breakfast,” begins the aptly titled “Feisty Old Jew,” a wry bit of storytelling from San Francisco-based solo performer Charlie Varon about an elderly man named Be…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:48PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Good new history plays are hard to find, but the New York-based Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective has one in its Capital Fringe Festival entry “Contrafact of Freedom,” the back stor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:17PMDirty tricks start early in politics — very early in “The Inaugural Election for President of Mrs. Jacobson’s Sixth Grade Class,” a windily titled Fringe show that is as innocent as …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:34PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Can you be sinister and winsome at the same time? Yes, if you are a married couple skilled at clowning and music, and you put together a droll 45 minutes’ worth of ambitious yet kid-friend…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AMIn the early stages of the Capital Fringe Festival show “Waiting for Armageddon,” Ron Litman looks like a freaked out monk. Wearing a sackcloth and ranting into a microphone that the end…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38AMSunday, July 13, 2014
Brothers and sisters of our isolating, dehumanizing new millennium, come save your frozen souls. Cross the line to a more connected and more peaceable being at “Cross the Line,” a collec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PM“What Would Tina and Amy Do?” is a click-bait title. Invoking Fey and Poehler raises hopes of something frisky and sharp, or — this being a fringe festival — maybe a loopy, campy tak…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PM“A Dream Within a Dream” is one of the Capital Fringe Festival’s site-specific projects, and this visually smart, absorbing project unfolds over two floors of an empty building called …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:08PMFriday, July 11, 2014
The 2014 Capital Fringe festival launched in earnest Thursday night with roughly 30 shows, one of them a wordless adaptation of “The Old Man and the Sea” directed and performed by deaf a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:28PMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Actor and solo performer Roger Guenveur Smithlikes his topics hot. His one-man stage shows include “A Huey P. Newton Story” and “Frederick Douglass Now,” while his screen credits inc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:28PMThursday, July 3, 2014
For years, Capital Fringe has been able to plant its flag on New York Avenue thanks to a favorable rental agreement on a block where redevelopment has long been expected. The arrangement was…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:13PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Capital Fringe, the rowdy summertime performance festival that has been headquartered a block from the Washington Convention Center since 2008, has signed a contract to purchase Connersmith,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:46PMSunday, June 22, 2014
In October 1997 the musical “Side Show” officially opened on Broadway the very day after “The Lion King” began previews. “Side Show” closed in three months. “The Lion King” h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMFriday, June 20, 2014
As the curtain rises on the big shock-value scene midway through Ed Dixon’s long, eventually happy showbiz life, it’s the late 1980s, and our man is hitting bottom. Dixon is in a huge Br…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:01PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Recently retired “Tonight Show” host and longtime stand-up club comedian Jay Leno will receive the Kennedy Center’s 2014 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Leno, 64, is best known fo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:03PMFriday, June 13, 2014
Emily Townley and Dawn Ursula are the kind of in-demand actors who make Washington theater run. You often see them at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: This season Townley was one of the subur…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Like a plane in a holding pattern, the comedy “Boeing Boeing” is slowly circling D.C. Last season it was at Rep Stage in Columbia, and now this 1960s French farce about a calculating bac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:44AMSunday, June 8, 2014
He did bounce! Viewers tuning in to the Tony Awards tonight on CBS were probably as keyed in to why Hugh Jackman was bouncing in his YouTube video tease as to what would win best musical. An…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:45PM 
