Wednesday, 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 06:07PMMonday, April 29, 2013
“Funny” is a word the characters murmur from time to time in the “The Personal(s),” a gloomy but gripping new play from No Rules Theatre Company. They say it because they’re past l…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PMFriday, April 26, 2013
The current predicament of the perennially cash-strapped classical troupe WSC Avant Bard is no joke, yet its scrappy response sets up an obvious one-liner. Q: What play sounds right for a su…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
No thinking: that’s the empty mind-set of the swinging ’60s bedroom farce “Boeing Boeing,” even though this peppy French artifact is fundamentally a math problem. Follow the numbers.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:40PMFriday, April 19, 2013
“This is the story,” declares a feisty Toby Orenstein, co-owner and artistic director of Toby’s Dinner Theatre, which is celebrated and berated in what sometimes seems to be equal meas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Can a play have a halo? “How to Write a New Book for the Bible” arrives at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre with an almost holy glow: It’s the deeply autobiographical account of a Jesu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:30PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Playwright Amy Herzog has arrived in a hurry. First New York: she has conquered off-Broadway with three acclaimed productions in the past 12 months, starting with the Lincoln Center Theater�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:28PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Jason Robert Brown’s 2002 song cycle “The Last Five Years,” about a young couple’s romantic flameout, was written in the heat of divorce, and it shows. It hurtles with energy: The st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:24PMMonday, April 8, 2013
The Folger Theatre’s wild west “The Taming of the Shrew” rode a field-topping nine nominations going into Monday night’s Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre, Washington theater�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12PMOutstanding Director, Resident Musical Serge Seiden Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris MetroStage Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12PMSunday, April 7, 2013
What do the words “middle management” bring to mind? If you picture a man halfway up a tree in his underwear, then the jolly “Neville’s Island” won’t take you by surprise. Playwr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:56AMFriday, April 5, 2013
How inescapable is “A Raisin in the Sun”? It’s not actually being performed as part of the bold two-play “Raisin Cycle” beginning Wednesday at Baltimore’s Center Stage, but Lorra…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AMFriday, March 22, 2013
It was a lifetime ago that actress Tana Hicken rejected the obvious path leading to New York and the bland rags of ingenue parts. “I wanted to be an actor,” Hicken says. “I wanted to d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:37AMSunday, March 17, 2013
Let’s remember Marisa Wegrzyn’s name. The Chicago-bred playwright, 31, has earned prizes and commissions across the theater world, so, of course, she has already split for the commercial…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PMFriday, March 8, 2013
Well, hello again, “Dolly!” It has been nearly 50 years since Carol Channing and a dazzling cluster of high-stepping waiters found their footing in the pre-Broadway tryout of a shaky new…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
The voyage from the rural South to the urban North and back is long and twisted in “Home,” the 1980 road-trip-of-the-soul drama by Samm-Art Williams. The itinerary of Cephus Miles, a mod…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
“Oh the shark has Pretty teeth, dear –” Which is more than can be said for the blandly cheery revue gliding around toothlessly at Source. “Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: A Musi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:57PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
How in the H-E-double hockey sticks can you act out Dante’s “Inferno”? For the one-man adaptation with the Washington Stage Guild, Bill Largess takes a reverent approach. He cleaves to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
An ambitious National Civil War Project will be unveiled Thursday at Arena Stage as major universities and flagship theaters in four cities team up to create new performances and campus prog…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:11PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is the famous tale of alienation in which the protagonist, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning as an insect. It’s a creepy fable, and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Danai Gurira from A to Z: well, mostly Z. As in Zimbabwe. That’s where the increasingly visible, Iowa-born Gurira was raised, and it’s the subject of her new historical drama currently a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AMThursday, February 14, 2013
There are shows that let you know almost immediately that the night may be a satisfying knockout. Steve Cosson’s staging of “Spring Awakening,” drawing young and hip-looking crowds to …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
There’s this guy shuffling around on the stage of the Lansburgh Theatre — just a guy. Small-time. Beige suit, kind of rumpled. Talks in slang about horse races and crap games. A loser, b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26PMFriday, February 8, 2013
Here’s what happens when your stage is a pool, which is how it is with playwright Mary Zimmerman’s famous “Metamorphoses ” Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:11AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” goes “Little Mermaid” in a whimsical new staging by Taffety Punk Theatre Company that’s goofy and buoyant. Occasional bubbles suggest everything’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Richard Schiff is having a Toby Ziegler moment. “There are so many stories,” murmurs Schiff, who played angst-riddled White House communications director Ziegler on the game-changing TV …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:52AMMonday, January 28, 2013
The dish from the Helen Hayes Awards announcement Monday night: the most nominations for a musical went to a show from a dinner theater. The Toby’s Dinner Theatre production of “The Colo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:37PMSunday, January 27, 2013
The bar is set pretty high for the Barbara Cook Spotlight Series at the Kennedy Center. Yet during an exhilarating 90 minutes Friday night in the Terrace Theater, Broadway vet Terri White ki…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:31PMThursday, January 24, 2013
The folks at Rorschach Theatre are practiced fantasists, so they have no problem conjuring a minotaur for the new play “The Minotaur.” Costume designer Lauren Cucarola provides actor Dav…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:04PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” is proving to be a play for all political times. During the fall election season, “Enemy” was on Broadway starring Richard Thomas, while a s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:47PMCan you really dare to open a new theater these days with a 31 / 2-hour marathon? Can you risk producing a play — not a musical — that requires 13 actors? Can you bet all your chips on s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:47PM 
