Monday, 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 01:25PMFriday, July 26, 2013
Ian Leahy’s new drama “Waiting for Orson” is about a young man hanging around public transit urgently expecting an alien encounter. And we’ve all been there, right? The strength of L…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Synetic Theater’s sexy and funny “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with its half-dressed heroines and slapstick clowns, was a high point in the troupe’s decade of successes when it firs…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:16PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Dolphins surface onstage in Natsu Onoda Power’s “The T Party,” played by actors in sleek grayish body suits and wearing their bathing trunks on the outside. The dolphins couple freely,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Washington’s Nanna Ingvarsson won a leading actress Helen Hayes Award playing Janet in “The Rocky Horror Show” with Woolly Mammoth in 1991. A few years later, performing with a Kennedy…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMThursday, July 18, 2013
A late night-style chat show is only as good as its guests, so the random factor is extremely high for No Rules Theatre’s “The No Rules Show.” Wednesday’s entertainers on the intima…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:41PMFriday, July 12, 2013
If the daring young No Rules Theatre Company is now showing something called “The No Rules Show,” what can audiences expect? “We’re calling it half ‘The Judy Garland Show,’ half …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:04PMFriday, July 5, 2013
Fringe is freedom to do your own thing, as two young D.C.-based performers are proving this month. Brynn Tucker and Emma Crane Jaster are both under 30 and bringing original dance-themed pie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:29PMCLEVELAND — The box office miracles of “The Book of Mormon,” chapter and verse: The musical has played to over 100 percent capacity audiences on Broadway since opening more than two y…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:23PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival this year: America’s overseas conflicts, with at least three shows dealing head-on with the military and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each producti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:19PMFriday, June 28, 2013
It’s hard to weigh the impact of the small Keegan Theatre company’s purchase of the Church Street Theater without first doing some, well, “bathroom math.” The theater seats 117, and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:11PMThursday, June 20, 2013
The building and home-owning surge in Washington theater will continue Friday as the edgy and acclaimed Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the purchase of the 265-seat facility that it…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PMFriday, June 14, 2013
The Shakespeare Theatre Company moved a step closer to trial Friday in its tenancy dispute over the company’s longtime theater in the Lansburgh building downtown. The Tony Award-winning cl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:46PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Even the orchestra laughs along with “Anything Goes,” the jubilant, dance-your-cares-away musical comedy that just sailed into the Kennedy Center’s Opera House for a month. As the saxo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38PMEven producing such slender rock-and-roll camp as “Diamond Dead” and “Cannibal, the Musical,” Andrew Baughman and his heavy-metal brethren with the Landless Theatre Companyoutgrew th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:58PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Things have changed around the Source Festival since it first began in 1981. The nighttime sidewalk at 14th and T Northwest teems with hipsters bobbing from bar to bar. It used to be a scary…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:36AMFriday, June 7, 2013
NEW YORK — Line up Kathleen Marshall’s three Tony Awards for choreography in the past decade, and it’s easy to spot the trend. “I’m the vintage girl,” Marshall acknowledges with …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Does this sound too cynical? “Love is the happy by-product of use,” says one of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo’s dark, delightfully tart “Becky Shaw.” The play — a 2009 Pulitz…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:37PMMonday, June 3, 2013
The rude, childish title of “Stupid F---ing Bird” turns out to be smack on the money for Aaron Posner’s savvy, petulant blitz through Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” Posner’s ne…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:39PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
What can you do with a warhorse like “Blithe Spirit”? Noel Coward’s ghostly comedy is snappy and professional at 1st Stage (tucked away in a small Tysons Corner strip mall), and it isn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:20PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Post-Katrina New Orleans is the backdrop for Dan Dietz’s new drama “Clementine in the Lower 9,” and the hypnotic production at Forum Theatre features a jagged hole ripped through a wid…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:54PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Theaters keep rolling out new ways to premiere plays, and two fresh Washington initiatives are in full flower — or in full beast mode — right now. Theater J’s initiative, called Locall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AMThursday, May 23, 2013
The Arlington County Board approved a $250,000 grant to Signature Theatre on Tuesday as the parties reconsider Signature’s lease and tax arrangements. The move, approved in a 5 to 0 vote, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PMMonday, May 20, 2013
Nearly everything Synetic Theater does could be called “Fast and Furious,” and the movement-based troupe’s relentless new “The Three Musketeers” opens with a tiger pounce as four a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:37AMAt 65, composer Stephen Schwartz is indisputably the king of ol’ Broadway. Last week “Wicked,” nearly 10 years into its gravity-defying long run, was the most-attended show on the st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:37AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Jeff Talbott’s “The Submission” is maddening and smug, but it begins with a fabulous premise. Danny has just written a play he thinks is dynamite, yet he fears no theater will touch it…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:01PMSunday, May 12, 2013
Adam Pascal, in skinny jeans and sneakers, suggested Friday night that the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater was “too hoity-toity a venue for me.” His introspective 70-minute set — mo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMFriday, May 10, 2013
This season, the small-budget troupe WSC Avant Bard lost its residency in Rosslyn’s Artisphere. They’re now on the lam. They’ve stopped briefly at Theatre on the Run, an 85-seat space …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:41AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Any search for a perfect Henry Higgins might stop happily with Jonathan Pryce. The “My Fair Lady” gala concert Sunday night at the Kennedy Center was satisfying, not stunning, but it oft…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PMThursday, May 2, 2013
It is 1919 in the enjoyably bookish drama “Ghost-Writer,” and the novelist Franklin Woolsey has just died. Yet his typist, Myra Babbage, continues to type, insisting that she’s just fi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:43PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
With enough imagination you can make a puppet out of anything — a kitchen whisk, steel shoe trees, even a leather belt. That’s the chief fascination of “The Amazing and Marvelous Cabin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PM 
