Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Can 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 02:47PMSunday, January 13, 2013
Carol Channing, Rex Harrison, Tallulah Bankhead, Laurence Olivier, Mae West, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward: These are among the legends who have graced the stage of the National T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:33PMFriday, January 11, 2013
Carol Channing, Rex Harrison, Tallulah Bankhead, Laurence Olivier, Mae West, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward: These are among the legends who have graced the stage of the National T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:58AMTuesday, January 1, 2013
Think of all the wars you’ve ever heard of across the millennia, right through the current conflict in Syria. How long would it take you to name them? That banal task occupies roughly thre…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PMThursday, December 20, 2012
Just watch him go, man. That’s all you can think, beholding the crazy-good vision of Elvis Presley currently gyrating around the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater stage. Cody Slaughter…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:27PMOn Christmas Day in 1911, the Empire Theatre opened in downtown Baltimore as a vaudeville house. Look to the peak of its colonnaded Greek facade — the Empire is on Fayette Street, steps fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
The father in Savyon Liebrecht’s “Apples From the Desert” is characterized in brief, efficient strokes, and he is a villain. Tuesday’s audience at Theater J groaned in dismay at an e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:14PMFriday, December 14, 2012
The rockabilly cats portraying Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in the stage musical “Million Dollar Quartet” don’t come from Broadway. They’re not even a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:52PMThursday, December 13, 2012
In the weeks before Christmas, upon D.C. stages Runs holiday fodder for folks of all ages. There’s singing. And dancing. And pious “God bless.” Some shows convey wonder. And others, a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:59PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company lawyers called Tuesday an “enormous day” as the company won a preliminary injunction in its ongoing tenancy dispute with the Lansburgh Theatre. Though the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:06PMThursday, December 6, 2012
Heroes our culture can’t stop recycling: James Bonds. Batmen. And, though you may not have thought about this one unless you’ve visited Bethesda’s Round House Theatre for a new origin …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
The thermostat is set at “cozy” for Centerstage’s new production of “Bus Stop,” the 1955 William Inge drama about a slightly worldly young woman trying to escape the clutches of a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Litigate on! Judge John Ramsey Johnson declined to dismiss the dispute between the Shakespeare Theatre Company and its Lansburgh building landlords Friday in D.C. Superior Court. The 2012 T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PMSunday, November 25, 2012
“Smash” star Megan Hilty sashayed into Rat Pack territory over the weekend, belting and crooning with a swinging National Symphony Orchestra in a pops concert titled “Luck Be a Lady”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:31PMFriday, November 23, 2012
John Malkovich has been a top-shelf slinky villain at least since playing the viper Valmont in the 1988 film “Dangerous Liaisons.” He returns to the scene of the crime with his French-la…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Family Fun Pack season has arrived at the theater, which explains the Rodgers and Hammerstein “Cinderella” at the Olney Theatre Center that looks like a 1960s Rankin-Bass TV kids’ spec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Nova Y. Payton has it. The Voice. When Arlington’s Signature Theatre presented a concert version last month of “Crossing,” a commissioned musical by local actor-composer Matt Conner, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Nothing says “Peter Pan” and “ravages of time” like an innocent character entering through a window, which is exactly what the apple-cheeked young title character does in the drama �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:19PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
How many vowel sounds can you squeeze out of the word “taxi” or “saucy”? A lot, if you’re Rana Kay playing Eliza Doolittle, the dirty-cheeked flower girl transformed into a society…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:10PMThursday, October 25, 2012
A wonk test for Washington: Is the presidential election to blame for a box-office slump in capital area theaters? Are D.C.’s denizens so busy working on campaigns or blissing out on polit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
The Round House Theatre stage is currently a spacious kitchen, where the culinary advice being served by the jolly host includes this tidbit: better undercooked than overcooked. In the solo …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Conventional storytelling overboard! The aggressively bizarre little play now paddling hard in the Shop at Fort Fringe takes the Titanic as a starting point for flitting mind games. With its…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:39PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Nick Olcott isn’t really a big-time food guru. He’s just playing one onstage. But the prospect of becoming James Beard in the solo show “I Love to Eat,” at Bethesda’s Round House T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:22PMActor Niall Buggy turns speeches into full-blown storms in Tom Murphy’s “A Whistle in the Dark,” braying and chest thumping as his character, a crude patriarch called Dada, urges his t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:28PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Friday night at the Kennedy Center, Maureen McGovern spent 90 minutes living in the past, and it was a beautiful place to be. Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles — tune after tune from …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PMFriday, October 12, 2012
When Arena Stage moved into its newly expanded $135 million complex two years ago, the company aggressively courted a reputation as a national leader in the field of new American plays. Aren…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:27AMThursday, October 11, 2012
British playwright Bryony Lavery begins to explain “Dirt,” her world premiere play at Studio Theatre, with a rat story. Several years ago Lavery, best known for the U.K.-U.S. stage hit �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PMIs Baltimore theater getting a total overhaul? The core troupe, Center Stage, has a dynamic new artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah, now in his first season picking his own shows. The city�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
The Olney Theatre Center is now serving a nostalgic, wisecracking dramedy of Catholic family dysfunction, circa 1959. It’s called “Over the Tavern,” and it’s log-cabin-thick with dri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:23PMYou have to follow closely in Pig Iron Theatre Company’s “Zero Cost House,” a collaboration between the Philadelphia-based experimentalists and Japanese writer Toshiki Okada that was o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19AMSunday, September 30, 2012
Sutton Foster, Broadway’s busy leading lady turned hopeful TV star (ABC Family’s “Bunheads”), chose to glow softly rather than to beam white-hot Saturday night at George Mason Univer…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:51PM 
