Monday, July 8, 2024
Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMSunday, February 18, 2024
Somehow Hollywood didn’t know what to do with Chita Rivera, but its loss was a win for decades of theater audiences.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga are just two of the stars making things bright on London stages.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:02PMMonday, December 4, 2023
“King Lear,” “Stereophonic,” “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Sunset Boulevard” were heartening examples of theater’s enduring power.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AMThursday, November 30, 2023
Director Jamie Lloyd’s stunning revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1994 musical stars Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Playwright-director Shayok Misha Chowdhury invites us to India for a look at the clashes of values in “Public Obscenities.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PMFriday, November 24, 2023
The brothers’ folk-rock songbook is featured in “Swept Away,” an Arena Stage production telling the story of a 19th-century shipwreck
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMWednesday, November 22, 2023
Shakespeare’s great tragicomedy is the first to be staged at the theater in Folger Shakespeare Library since a 2020 renovation.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PMSunday, November 19, 2023
Twenty-three Alicia Keys songs tell the coming-of-age story of a New York teenager with a musical gift.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:48PMFriday, November 17, 2023
Hana S. Sharif, Arena Stage’s new artistic director, has no shortage of confidence or enthusiasm. “I love it,” she says, “when the small group gets loud.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Direct to Broadway from the Kennedy Center comes an inspired revival of ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot,’ staged and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
The ‘White Lotus’ star makes her stage debut in an off-Broadway production with lots of fireworks but not enough fiery truth.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:36AMMonday, November 13, 2023
Barry Manilow always wanted to create a Broadway musical. “Harmony,” about a singing group disbanded by the Nazis, is no jukebox rehash of his hits.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48PMFriday, November 10, 2023
The Jar, founded in 2019, has a goal of inviting people who don’t look or think like each other to share an art-filled evening.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Off-Broadway’s Playwright Horizons stages David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,”the tumultuous story of a 1970s rock band.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Signature Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner leads a splendid cast through “Ragtime,” the musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s teeming novel.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PMThursday, November 2, 2023
“I Need That” is among a new crop of shows presenting tough challenges to splendid stage actors including DeVito. They don’t all pay off.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:32PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
“Fat Ham,” James Ijames’s comic riff on “Hamlet,” features a fine Studio Theatre cast headed by Marquis D. Gibson.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PM“Artificial Flavors” by the Civilians generates new musicals nightly, courtesy of Chat GPT.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:25AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
Rorschach Theatre stages a parody of George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic, “Night of the Living Dead.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:07PMThursday, October 26, 2023
A revival of 1975’s “The Wiz” stops at D.C.’s National Theatre for the week, before a planned Broadway run this spring.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:19PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
Selina Fillinger’s White House farce was a riot last year on Broadway, and it’s even funnier in D.C.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:43PMMonday, October 23, 2023
A Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” directed by Rebecca Frecknall and co-starring Gayle Rankin, will transform the August Wilson Theatre into a decadent Berlin club.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AMThe world premiere of Stephen Sondheim and David Ives’s “Here We Are” has a dazzling cast and design, but a sense of incompleteness diminishes its impact.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:13AMFriday, October 20, 2023
Theater J’s “The Chameleon,” a comedy about Jewish life in America, arrives at a delicate moment.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:07PM“Purlie Victorious” by Ossie Davis finds Tony-winning “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. back in the Times Square limelight
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13AMThursday, October 19, 2023
The Library of Congress receives artifacts from the Broadway musical for archiving.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:07AMFriday, October 13, 2023
A sluggish environment complicates the business fortunes of productions birthed on Broadway since the pandemic.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04AMThursday, October 12, 2023
“Gutenberg! The Musical” runs on comic fuel supplied by a pair of consummate Broadway clowns.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:13PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez breathe new life into Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:37AMThursday, October 5, 2023
A state law seeking to bar anyone under 18 from “sexually oriented” live shows content has a chilling effect
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:34AM 
