Sunday, November 3, 2013
Tommy Tune has always broken the mold, and the 6-foot-6-inch-tall singin’-dancin’ Texan did it again Friday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. In a loping tempo, Tune, 74, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:59PMFriday, November 1, 2013
It’s too early to tell whether the new musical “If/Then” is the Next Big Thing, even with original “Rent” stars Idina Menzel and Anthony Rapp on the National Theatre stage, along w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:31AMThe new musical “If/Then” at the National Theatre isn’t only a pre-Broadway tryout, that now-rare specimen of a new show alighting in Washington on a circuit that often included New Ha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:31AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
It is tempting to contrast “The Argument” at Theater J with its spiritual sister, “The Night Watcher,” just two blocks away at the Studio Theatre. In writer-performer Charlayne Wooda…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:22PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Romance at first sight usually means being taken by surprise — “gobsmacked,” as one of the characters puts it in the awkwardly swoony new “Love in Afghanistan” at Arena Stage. And …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PMFriday, October 25, 2013
The actress playing Mary Patrick, the peppiest nun in the comedy “Sister Act,” may look familiar to local audiences when the musical brings its 1970s disco groove to the Kennedy Center�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Sentences fizz like champagne bubbles in Marcus Gardley’s “dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory” at Baltimore’s Center Stage. It’s all about a blustery, isolated 72-year-old …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMThe Molotov Theatre Group’s staging of “Extremities” begins with a suitably horrifying image of the classic rape scenario. Sherry Berg, the actress playing the victim, Marjorie, is pet…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:16AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Actress Charlayne Woodard has been married for nearly 22 years, and she doesn’t have children — at least not exactly. “I have 13 godchildren, 21 nieces and nephews, and 15 people who c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:15AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Enter, in an unlikely place, Christine Lahti: tall, lean, radiating just the right touch of glamour in a sleek, low-key charcoal sweater dress that looks like cashmere. The face — dark eye…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:13PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
“The Two-Character Play” is a modest title for Tennessee Williams’s 1975 psychodrama about a brother and sister locked in mortal combat with familiar Williams demons: debilitating fear…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:03PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Let’s just say it: The Riot Grrrls are taking a fierce bite out of “Titus Andronicus,” Shakespeare’s grisly revenge tragedy. The Riot Grrrls are the all-female wing of the Taffety Pu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:28PMSunday, October 6, 2013
The people in line at 10th and G streets NW look happy, and why not? They’re queueing for free tickets to the Ford’s Theatre’s new production of “The Laramie Project.” Two blocks d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:42PMSunday, September 29, 2013
“I’m old-fashioned,” Tony Award-winning singer Laura Benanti crooned Saturday night at George Mason University’s Concert Hall, a jazzy quartet swinging lightly behind her. That was f…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:29PMFriday, September 27, 2013
Why so much huffing and puffing about performance-enhancing drugs? “Red Speedo,” the new play premiering at the Studio Theatre, wants to know. “There are people who will never be good …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMFriday, September 20, 2013
All’s well that ends well, and the dispute between the Shakespeare Theatre Company and its landlords of the Lansburgh building is apparently over. Pending a formal dismissal of the STC’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMThe poster for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new “Measure for Measure” is a bit of a shocker. Glance at it and you’ll find yourself peeking up the garments of a young nun. She’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMRep Stage in Columbia and MetroStage in Alexandria represent the northern and southern poles of the Washington theater world. Both are small professional troupes that have been around for a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMIn “Detroit,” the hot-topic drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011, nobody says “Democrat” or “Republican.” No one says “Wall Street” or “too big to fail,” thou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Washington theater’s Helen Hayes Awards unveiled a major makeover Tuesday night, restructuring its maligned judging process and nearly doubling the number of prizes that can be handed out.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:55PMAhem, harrumph: Commedia dell’arte, the Renaissance style involving comic archetypes, masks and improvisation, is a deceptively intellectual tradition well suited for interpretations of �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMMonday, September 16, 2013
You’re free to fiddle with your phone during “Bell,” the one-man bio-drama about Alexander Graham Bell now playing at the National Geographic Society. Bell, after all, invented the tel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41AMSaturday, September 14, 2013
Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company basked in Broadway limelight last summer when it received the Regional Theater Tony Award. What does an internationally acclaimed classical troupe …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Amy Herzog’s savvy “After the Revolution” is set in New York and Boston, but it’s a first-rate Washington play. The drama, being acted with heart and intelligence at Theater J, follo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:53PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
The mad tango of “Nijinsky’s Last Dance” is back in Washington, where it began its award-winning career at Signature Theatre in 1998. The Slovenian version at Flashpoint this week is r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:35PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
The inventive Rorschach Theatre has a flair for cult fantasy, but the troupe has upped its game big-time for the sprawling “Neverwhere.” The wild plot careens through a seedy underworld …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMMonday, August 19, 2013
It was 20 years ago today — well, within a month or two — that the low-budget, serious-minded American Theater Project rolled the dice in an Anacostia storefront. It survived only a coup…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Should the Helen Hayes Awards be handed out on two separate tiers, splitting larger and smaller theater companies into separate groups? Or not? The debate has run on two distinctly separate …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PMShould the Helen Hayes Awards be handed out on two separate tiers, splitting larger and smaller theater companies into separate groups? Or not? The debate has run on two distinctly separate …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:25PMFriday, August 9, 2013
“Miss Saigon” – isn’t that the megamusical with the helicopter onstage? That’s not what director Eric Schaeffer and his cast of 19 are talking about at Arlington’s Signature Thea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:37PMMonday, August 5, 2013
The Olney Theatre Center has long staked a claim to musicals, but “A Chorus Line” — surely that’s a high kick too far, right? After all, it’s a pro’s show, forged from the person…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PM 
