Saturday, 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 01:38AMFriday, April 27, 2012
Actress Francesca Faridany has never been through the kind of marathon she’s running as Nina Leeds in Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude.” As the complex heroine at the center of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:19PMWhy haven’t Washington area theaters had more of a hand in making playwright Lynn Nottage a star? Arena Stage’s production of “Ruined” earned top honors at the Helen Hayes Awardsthis…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:53AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Signature Theatre’s “Hairspray” stood a beehive above the rest of Washington theater during Monday night’s Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre. The local revival of the popular …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:57AMMonday, April 23, 2012
In “God of Carnage,” the comic belch of a play by the sensationally popular French provocateur Yasmina Reza, two upscale couples sit down for a civil conversation and quickly make each o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:34PMSaturday, April 21, 2012
Aticklish question: How to critique the Helen Hayes Awards process on the eve of the ceremony without smearing the accomplishments of the 153 nominees?
It may not require such finesse. The i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMFriday, April 13, 2012
Puppeteer Basil Twist loves the old-fashioned business of raising the curtain. That’s how each of the four eye-opening shows in this month’s festival of Twist’s work has begun, and in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PMMatthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man” is one of the most-produced new plays on U.S. stages right now, and watching the dark-and-stormy show that opened Wednesday at Baltimore’s Centerst…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AMFriday, April 6, 2012
Three years ago, “God of Carnage” was the biggest play on Broadway. The cast was killer: James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis. French dramatist Yasmina Reza�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24PMThursday, April 5, 2012
It’s hard to explain the magical pull of fabric and light in Basil Twist’s puppetry spectacle “Symphonie Fantastique” except in terms of sheer charm. This clever blend of color and m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
The only applause line during a 75-minute public forum with Mike Daisey on Tuesday evening at Woolly Mammoth came when the theater’s artistic director, Howard Shalwitz, said, “We shouldn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:47PMStart with a dead guy, or maybe not — maybe he’s in purgatory, or the subway. Wait — he’s alive, but he’s a grieving liar-thief-coke fiend who needs to erase his identity and sta…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PMFriday, March 23, 2012
When you make a success of a major arts institution for 25 years, you can choose your own special projects for fun. What’s fun for Michael Kahn? Eugene O’Neill. “Strange Interlude,” …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:45PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
“New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza” strides back into Theater J after its acclaimed 2010 run as an established hit, and the show’s success is no mystery. The David …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:45PMFriday, February 24, 2012
The moment Barack Obama locked up the Democratic nomination during the 2008 presidential campaign, British playwright Roy Williams — long acclaimed in the U.K. for his streetwise dramas of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:00PMFriday, February 10, 2012
When Michael Kahn took over the Shakespeare Theatre in the 1980s, he felt the best way to put the struggling troupe on the map was to open the doors for a day while Stacy Keach and the cast …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PMMusicals start with music. So why is music often the most disposable element of the show?
Because musicals are expensive, sometimes corners get cut. (Flip side: Musicals are popular. They ma…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:35PMMonday, February 6, 2012
Can dragapella save a presidential campaign that suddenly seems to be hitting the skids, entertainment-wise?
The Kinsey Sicks hope so. The Sicks are four men in red-white-and-blue drag, a �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Washington vetoed the idea of splitting the Helen Hayes Awards in two, creating separate categories for large and small theaters. In 2009, the Hayes Awards sent out surveys, created focus gr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
You’ve heard this before, right? Rock band begins to fray at the edges; the personalities clash, and the label dumps them; the drummer’s dad is busted for torturing women in a dungeon . …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFoul weather, foul show Saturday night as a loyal band of followers crowded the small Warehouse Theatre for a final, one-night-only debauch by the dastardly, shuttering Cherry Red Production…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhat does the Devil watch on TV? Reality shows, of course, chortling at the mayhem as foul-mouthed, amoral youngsters compete to be “interesting.”
“It’s my fast food,” Satan grins …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIt hasn’t taken long for Allison Arkell Stockman and Tom Teasley to form one of the most distinctive theatrical partnerships in Washington. Stockman, artistic director of Constellation The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen a drunk brings a stripper home and starts talking about the murderous impulses in Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” that can’t be good, can it?
That’s the launching point …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMDeb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” has a firm identity as The Play That Angered Elie Wiesel: Last year the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, one of the many bilked by the herculean…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe boys are back from the wars in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” but they’re being played by women in the Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s amusing but unbalanced all-female…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIt takes a really refined actor to get away with mischief onstage, and at the Studio Theatre Ted van Griethuysen is offering not one but two sly turns — both as the irascible British poet …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMCommedia dell’arte, the antique Italian street comedy theater style, lends itself to improvisation, and actor Matthew R. Wilson had to think on his feet a couple weeks ago as his Faction o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFriday, May 6, 2011
When Terri White was cast in the Encores! concert staging of “Finian’s Rainbow” two years ago, and then in the Broadway transfer that followed, it was like coming in out of the cold.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:31PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Broadway baby? You bet. Linda Lavin’s first Tony Award nomination came in 1970 for Neil Simon’s “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” and she was in the running again last year — for the f…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:05PMMonday, March 28, 2011
What we liked about "Stomp" - and there must be something, for the dance-a-little, whack-a-lot percussion show has been kicking around the world for 20 years - used to be its ferocious energ…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AM 
