Sunday, 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 09:45PMFriday, June 6, 2014
Actor Bill Pullman, rehearsing a dance piece upstairs at Arena Stage, gracefully sinks into a crouch. So does his wife, dancer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman. Moving slowly, they gracefully sweep th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:17PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” is a splendid storm of a play, a full three hours examining the proper fate of the man who betrayed Jesus and, by conspicuous extension, the fate of unf…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMFriday, May 23, 2014
Maria Aitken — first name pronounced with a long “i,” as in Mariah — looks rehearsal-casual in blue jeans and a zip-front hoodie. But she sounds as posh and funny as a Noel Coward he…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Stephen Schwartz fans are legion, thanks to the box office dynamo “Wicked” and the jillions of “Godspells” and “Pippins” that give so many stagestruck kids their first real mu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PMMonday, May 19, 2014
Sigmund Freud cracks five pretty good jokes in the first five minutes of “Freud’s Last Session,” Mark St. Germain’s easygoing two-character drama. St. Germain wants you to like Freud…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:51PMFriday, May 16, 2014
John Legend will headline a free concert May 28 showcasing an eclectic group of pop artists who have emerged via YouTube. Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMRace relations news from the past few weeks: Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s bigotry eclipses his 15 seconds of folk hero fame as a federal grazing fee resister. The NBA playoffs nearly grin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMAttend the tale of two wandering musicals with imperial bloodlines, one by Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked,” “Pippin,” “Godspell”), the other by John Kander and Fred Ebb (“Cabaret,�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Kathleen Cahill’s “Charm” takes a rosy view of the early American feminist Margaret Fuller and her appealing play floats. Howard Brenton’s “Bloody Poetry” delves into the romanti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMMonday, May 12, 2014
The Kennedy Center announced Monday that John Legend will headline a free concert May 28 in the Opera House showcasing an eclectic range of pop artists who have emerged via YouTube. The one-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:08PMFriday, May 9, 2014
“Teach me how to shimmy,” goes one of the songs in the Leiber and Stoller revue “Smokey Joe’s Café,” and shimmying is what the venerable Arena Stage is doing with its energetic re…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:54PMWashington-based producer Larry Kaye didn’t break a leg on Broadway, but he’s now walking with a cane. Kaye stumbled in a hotel lobby recently while talking to a British producer interes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
The Kennedy Center announced Tuesday that it is extending its contract with pianist and composer Jason Moran, 39, the center’s artistic adviser for jazz since 2011. Moran is being renewed …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:11AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Constellation Theatre Company has developed one of the most distinctive house styles in town, especially when they light into classic myths and exotic design on a budget. “The Love of the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMMonday, April 28, 2014
“Underneath the Lintel” is an agreeable goose chase about a librarian perplexed by a returned item that was 113 years overdue. Who had it all this time? What can such century-hopping mea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:00PMFriday, April 18, 2014
To the tune of “Mack the Knife”: Brecht’s “Threepenny” has Songs with teeth, dear Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:43AMMonday, April 14, 2014
“Once on This Island” at the Olney Theatre Center is a burst of spring, a warm 90-minute fairy tale told to breezy Caribbean rhythms. This is the 1990 musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PMFriday, April 11, 2014
You’d think Washington would perpetually be in the market for sophisticated, unpredictable, audience-friendly plays by a black female playwright. Yet plays by Lynn Nottage, a Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AM“A Nottage play, like history, is full of discoveries,” critic Michael Feingold once wrote of Lynn Nottage. “You never know what, or who, will turn up next.” Oddly, Nottage’s play…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Acting isn’t subversive, right? That’s the case a nervous Parisian performer makes to a roomful of 1943 French gendarmes in Carol Wolf’s “The Thousandth Night,” a solo drama that A…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:44AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
In 1969 August Wilson, who would become the most accomplished and historically ambitious black playwright this country has produced so far, turned 24. Did he shortchange the cauldron of late…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:56PMFriday, April 4, 2014
What exactly can you do in public while nude? When the Supreme Court pondered the question in 1991, a lawyer began like this: A man walks into a bar. “Once inside the bar,” the lawyer a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
The “Brief Encounter” that’s at the Lansburgh Theatre for the next two weeks is hardly a campy parody of the beloved 1945 romantic film, thank heavens. It’s a gorgeous, unexpected fe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:23AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Ford’s Theatre isn’t the only place you can find “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” this month. In April alone, the chipper musical about angsty, lovable adolescents enduri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:57PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Stop. Breathe. Smile. You’re in the hands of angels of tranquillity. They look fabulous in their individualized black outfits — chic boots here, a bowler there. They’re ultra-hip and c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:30PMFriday, March 28, 2014
The National Theatre of China’s “Green Snake” begins with a dignified ceremony as monks march through the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, taking the stage for a so…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:39PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
The new play “Morning, Miranda” is so TV cute that our addled heroine, Miranda, shows up late to her mother’s funeral wearing a short red dress. The mother’s spirit haunts the girl, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PMFor some audiences, enduring the first few minutes of the terribly titled “Tender Napalm” will take nerve. The language in this peculiar romantic blowup by English dramatist Philip Ridle…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:36PMFriday, March 21, 2014
English director Tom Morris and South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company brought the world “War Horse,” a sensation thanks in large part to the show’s graceful, stunningly realistic …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:35PMThe National Theatre spectacularly broke out of its years-long funk last fall with “If/Then,” a splashy Broadway tryout of a major new musical showcasing a genuine star in Idina Menzel. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:08PM 
