Sunday, 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 08:51PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Tap is an earthy, feet-on-the-ground style of dance, yet it helps lift the drama “Fly” at Ford’s Theatre. Omar Edwards plays a figure called the Tap Griot, and as the show’s opening …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:27PMFriday, September 21, 2012
BALTIMORE — You probably don’t know the Strand Theater Company in Baltimore. Tiny joint, converted storefront in the Station North area, 55 seats, just entering its fifth season.
The per…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:13AMThursday, September 20, 2012
NEW YORK — Sutton Foster, the musical theater dynamo with the long legs and cheery smile, has won Tony Awards playing indomitable leading ladies in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (2002) an…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:39AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
“Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” has always known that embassies are under attack, that diplomatic and romantic relations are chronically strained and that survival i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26AMThursday, September 13, 2012
NEW YORK — Playwright Annie Baker, at 31 a sudden darling of the country’s new-play scene, is charmingly laid-back until you bring up a word that often characterizes her barbed, often c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:12AMTuesday, September 4, 2012
No spoilers, but let’s skip straight to the end of “The Temperamentals” because that’s the most interesting part. The characters in the play by Jon Marans address the audience and ex…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMFriday, August 31, 2012
Clues that James Long, making his theatrical debut as a wrestler in the Pulitzer-nominated drama“The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,” is in fact a real-life wrestler:
His hair is tied …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMThursday, August 30, 2012
At first glance, the ingredients of playwright Annie Baker’s “Body Awareness” may seem sitcom simple. Take a Vermont lesbian couple — Joyce, a high school cultural studies teacher, a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:45PMMonday, August 20, 2012
The trippy new drama “Goldfish Thinking” opens with bodies on the floor and a detective inspecting the wreckage. Clues: pay attention to them. Try to keep up. By the end of this cheerful…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:42PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
More than halfway through Rob Handel’s agreeably ramshackle drama “A Maze,” a debate breaks out about the special nature of artists. Are creative people different from the rest of us? …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMSunday, August 12, 2012
“Fun” was the word that book and lyrics writer Howard Ashman used to describe his goal, with composer Alan Menken, for the man-eating plant-from-outer-space musical “Little Shop of Hor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:43PMFriday, August 10, 2012
“Subscribe Now!” was the title of a 1977 book by Danny Newman that became the marketing bible for performing-arts institutions in the United States.
“No!” comes the answer from audie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:55PMThursday, July 26, 2012
The Capital Fringe Festival just heaved a sigh of relief: This won’t be the last year the quick-hit performance extravaganza occupies its ramshackle compound on New York Avenue NW after al…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:49PMFor hard-boiled, up-to-the-minute social relevance, a 1978 musical comedy about a “lil’ ole bitty pissant country place” populated by hearts-of-gold hookers might not be the first plac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
The grand American tradition of singing bright songs through hard times gets a pleasant workout in “Arlen and Berlin Occupy the Fringe,” a five-singer cabaret at Source Theatre. An early…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMFriday, July 13, 2012
It is not the job of Washington theater to be New York lite. There is no reason for our top-flight professional stages to simply replicate last year’s Manhattan hits.
On the other hand, th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:34PMLife is not a cabaret in buttoned-down Washington. Or is it?
The show tune and its close cousins may be making more inroads around town than you’d guess. More than ever, it’s possible to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:16PMThe bliss you feel at the end of Ron Litman’s “D.C. Trash” is his triumph, and not just the kind of sentimental uplift of watching an actor in his early 60s who’s been hauling garbag…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:56AMThursday, July 12, 2012
It’s impossible to gauge precisely how Mike Daisey’s controversial one-man “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” will be different this week when the Apple-Exploits-Chinese-Worke…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:40PMFriday, July 6, 2012
It unfurls all over again Thursday, the swarming arts and humanity carnival that is the Capital Fringe Festival.
The anything-goes event is in its seventh summer season, headquartered for …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:19AMThursday, July 5, 2012
It used to be audiences knew the names of the people who wrote the shows: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Nowadays, the musicals that aren’t rippi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PMFriday, June 29, 2012
In less than 10 years, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has become a winsome local poster child for the classic outdoor, family-friendly theater experience.
Before a recent Sunday night pe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:20PMThursday, June 21, 2012
No clue why suburban Maryland’s two big theaters are staging vintage mysteries at the same time, but plainly something’s afoot. Bethesda’s Round House Theatre is still in the clutches …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AMFriday, June 15, 2012
The Broadway musical “Memphis” may be strutting into the Kennedy Center’s Opera House with the 2010 best musical Tony Award in its pocket, but it doesn’t do much with the ancient ter…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Rapture comes naturally to playwright Tony Kushner, and in “The Illusion,” he plants a big swoony kiss on the lips of the theater. At Forum Theatre, director Mitchell Hebert kisses right…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:37AMMonday, May 28, 2012
“Flora the Red Menace” is the rarely revived musical John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote immediately before breaking through with “Cabaret” in the mid-1960s, so hard-core musical theater …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:37PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The yin and yang of young Matthew Gardiner:
●He’s precociously unrushed and composed, a slender dude in boots and jeans. Signature Theatre’s 28-year-old associate artistic director sit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
The musical “Hair” turns out to be a good way to think about the largely wonderful staging of “The Bacchae,” now at WSC Avant Bard’s intimate Artisphere home in Arlington. Shaggy a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:44PMFriday, May 4, 2012
Atypical George Bernard Shaw woman, on love: “Change the subject, or I shall go to sleep.”
Another Shavian female, poor and uneducated, to a professional writer: “I’m never wrong whe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Eugene O’Neill’s dog Blemie gets a monologue at the end of “Begotten: O’Neill and the Harbor of Masks,” a workshop project in Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle that’s part of the ongo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38AM 
