Friday, March 21, 2014
The 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 12:08PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
How has Synetic Theater performed Shakespeare without words for the past dozen years? Here’s a snapshot from the current revival of “Hamlet . . . the rest is silence,” the innovati…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Rage meets misery in “Harmsaga,” the marital death grip of a play from Iceland that opened Saturday night for two performances at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. How psychotic is…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:52PMFriday, March 14, 2014
Ari Roth expects protests when the new play “The Admission” finally takes the stage at Theater J this week. Agitation against the very premise of the yet-unseen drama was so strong last …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
If horror suits your taste, then the small Molotov Theatre Group may be your bucket of blood. The hour-long creeper “Normal” is on display in the closet-sized District of Columbia Arts C…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AMSunday, March 9, 2014
Brian d’Arcy James listens to the anthem “Who I’d Be” from the Broadway version of “Shrek” and hears Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.” He convincingly mashed them together to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
“Les Souffleurs Commandos Poétiques” March 28-30, in public spaces throughout the Kennedy Center Country: Japan and France Description: “Les souffleurs” means “whisperers,”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:58PM“A Great Wilderness” March 22 at Terrace Gallery Country: United States Description: A staged reading of a new play from on-the-rise dramatist Samuel D. Hunter, a writer in residenc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:58PM“Green Snake” March 27-30, Eisenhower Theater Country: China Description: An interpretation of a timeless Chinese myth about two sister snakes becoming human and attempting love, ad…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:51PM“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” March 20-23, Eisenhower Theater Country: England and South Africa Description: Shakespeare’s fairy-fueled comedy, from the minds of the acclaimed “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:45PM“Harmsaga” March 15-16, Terrace Theater Country: Iceland Description: From the National Theatre of Iceland, a young couple with two children find themselves adrift online as their m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:45PMFriday, March 7, 2014
“How do you hate poetry?” an earnest and disbelieving high-schooler named Anthony asks a prickly, bedridden girl in “I and You,” a crafty two-character drama by Lauren Gunderson. The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:13PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Only about a half dozen shows have run longer on Broadway than “Mamma Mia!,” which will disco past “Rent” this week on the all-time durability chart. It still tours, too, and a non-E…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:24PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Early Monday afternoon, a rumor flickered across Twitter about a possible gunman on a Big Ten campus. The report was false, but for a moment it was terribly easy to believe it was all happen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:29PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
“Life must not cease,” the serpent declares to Adam and Eve in George Bernard Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah.” “That comes before everything.” That may sound obvious, but Shaw wasn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:52PMMonday, February 24, 2014
How inside the Beltway is the puckish new “The Cole Porter Project” at Source Theatre? House Speaker John Boehner’s name gets worked into the lyrics of “You’re the Top.” Robert G…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:51PMFriday, February 21, 2014
In 1923, a British theater manager told George Bernard Shaw that he wanted to produce the playwright’s latest work, a sprawling five-play cycle called “Back to Methuselah.” “I asked …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:56PMThursday, February 20, 2014
You really don’t need more on a stage than this: Patti LuPone, her hip slightly cocked, standing next to Mandy Patinkin, his hands gravely folded in front of him, with both of them singing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:37PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
The touring company of “American Idiot” has already played two dozen cities this year, some of them one-nighters in places such as Manhattan, Kan., and Elmira, N.Y. That grind didn’t s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:11PMMonday, February 17, 2014
The new show at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is wild and windy, living up to a title so long and full of fanfare that it practically demands its own paragraph. Ladies and gentlemen: “We …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:39PMSunday, February 16, 2014
Now “Beaches” is washing ashore again as a brand-new musical starting Tuesday at Arlington’s Signature Theatre. That might give you the impression that Dart has been a re-purposing one…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:50PMFriday, February 14, 2014
“Beaches” is what Iris Rainer Dart is best known for, and if it’s all she ever did, her career would have reached an enviable high tide. The 1985 novel followed an urchin showgirl and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:08PMWhen things go bad for Barbara Hershey’s character in the 1988 movie “Beaches,” the soundtrack swells. Bette Midler sings “Wind Beneath My Wings,” and for many viewers the mysterio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PMLandless Theatre Company, a small Washington outfit known for satire and, perhaps more distinctively, cult rock dramas, has obtained permission to amp up a new prog metal version of “Sween…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:38AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
The new musical of “Beaches” begins previews Tuesday at Signature Theatre, so reach for your hankies and bathe in heartbreaking show tunes. Signature is sharing exclusive rehearsal video…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:53PMTuesday, February 11, 2014
The truth hurts in “Seminar,” the sharp-tongued comedy by “Smash” creator Theresa Rebeck that’s being acted with magnetic bad manners and casual sex appeal at the Round House Theat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PMDon’t be fooled by the sweet little old lady nattering innocently as she offers cookies to audiences in the front row at Columbia’s Rep Stage. Mrs. K, as the retired piano teacher was ca…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PMFriday, February 7, 2014
The siren call of Africa inspired Jackie Sibblies Drury to write the heroically titled “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Afr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:40AMThursday, February 6, 2014
If you remember the 1970 hit song “Band of Gold,” then you know Freda Payne’s voice. Payne is holding forth at Alexandria’s MetroStage, not crooning Motown-style but swinging and sca…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:57AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Will Eno’s melancholy “The Flu Season” poses all kinds of tantalizing questions about love and life, but a new production in Baltimore also makes you wonder: What sort of build-a-theat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:39AMIn the Pulitzer-winning 1961 musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” the workplace is a blast. Adrenaline and moxie pulse through the title tune and through songs lik…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:39AM 
