Friday, May 8, 2015
Audience walkouts during a performance are an occupational hazard for stage actors. But the one that occurred some days ago in the opening moments of “The Originalist” struck Edward Gero…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
In one of the inaugural acts by his new theater company, Ari Roth will stage a play that he believes was key to his firing at his old one.As a result, Mosaic Theater Company of D.C. — the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
NEW YORK — “An American in Paris,” a lavish new dance-driven adaptation of the 1951 Oscar-winning movie, shared honors as biggest harvester of Tony nods, 12, including one for best ori…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:16AMFriday, April 24, 2015
NEW YORK — Two Broadways coexist, in uneasy detente, amid the narrow swath of theaters stretching from West 41st Street to Lincoln Center on West 65th. One of these Broadways is a haven of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:39AMSunday, April 12, 2015
NEW YORK — A wholly contagious joy of motion is packed into every kick, lift, tap and leap of “An American in Paris,” director-choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s suavely mounted, d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PMFriday, April 10, 2015
NEW YORK — Depending on what voters have in mind, “Clinton the Musical” is either a flashback to some of the juicier comedy targets of recent presidential history or an early warning a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
NEW YORK — “Gigi” is a flawed musical about a Pyrrhic victory, the triumph of a feisty young woman groomed to be a sexual trophy who ends up becoming a rich man’s trophy wife instead…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:01PMThursday, April 2, 2015
NEW YORK — It’s not a choice that everyone is equipped to make, to trade plush surroundings and comfortable love affairs for life in a dank flat and a job teaching the children of societ…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:01PMThursday, March 5, 2015
NEW YORK — The Larry David who stars in “Fish in the Dark,” his middling new Broadway comedy about a cantankerous head-case urinal manufacturer, bears striking similarities to the Larr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
NEW YORK — Lin-Manuel Miranda is showing us the way. To anyone who might suggest musical theater has hit a creative dead end, the actor-songwriter unfolds a spectacularly persuasive counte…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:33PMThursday, January 29, 2015
If you think you remember “Gigi” well, a newly buffed revival wants you to have some freshened perspective on the Oscar-winning 1958 film musical, later turned into a stage version by it…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Here, plain and simple, are my 10 favorite Washington theater experiences of 2014:1. “Side Show,” Kennedy Center. Forever ahead of its time, this heartbreaking musical about conjoined tw…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:20PMSunday, December 28, 2014
Fear not, “Diner” fans: The world-premiere musical version at Signature Theatre faithfully replicates the outrageous movie-house scene from Barry Levinson’s beloved 1982 film, the one …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:51PMFriday, December 26, 2014
The battle over the firing of Theater J artistic director Ari Roth took another bitter turn this week, with the circulation of remarks by his boss at the DC Jewish Community Center, Carole R…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:43PMHere is the letter about the firing of Ari Roth, artistic director of Theater J, that Carole Zawatsky, CEO of the DC Jewish Community Center, e-mailed Wednesday to Israeli playwright Motti L…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:43PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Another open letter protesting the firing of Theater J’s longtime artistic director, Ari Roth, is being circulated by a pair of Bay Area-based documentary film makers, Deborah Kaufman and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:28PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Artistic directors of major theater companies from across the country on Monday signed this open letter to the DC Jewish Community Center:“We, the undersigned artistic directors, are outra…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:53PMIn an extraordinary demonstration of unity and anger, 61 artistic directors of major theater companies from across the country on Monday denounced the DC Jewish Community Center’s firing o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:32PMFriday, December 19, 2014
By last summer, the estrangement was nearly complete. Tensions between Theater J and its parent organization, the D.C. Jewish Community Center, over the theater company’s offerings related…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMIs “Into the Woods” a golden Christmas goose? We are about to discover whether toy-crazy, youth-worshiping American filmgoers will in large numbers embrace a movie musical that effective…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:29PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Ari Roth, longtime artistic director of Theater J, an organization he has built over the last 18 years into one of the city’s most artistically probing and ambitious theater companies, sai…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PMThursday, December 11, 2014
If your sense of humor is a type your friends diplomatically describe as “quirky,” you’re likely the target audience for “Famous Puppet Death Scenes,” a piece of oddball theater th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:42PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
It’s not what’s behind a curtain, but behind a screen, that counts most crucially in Synetic Theater’s graphically clever new adaptation of the 18th-century French fairy tale “Beauty…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:53PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Sleekly assembled and easy on the eyes, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new “The Tempest” is a highly enjoyable rendering of Shakespeare’s late romance and one of the warmer production…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:17PMMonday, December 8, 2014
NEW YORK — As guests go, in the megastar-driven dinner party that Broadway has become, Bradley Cooper makes for respectful, well disciplined company. That he’s not the exhilarating life…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Back when he was in his 20s and doing community theater in the Northern Virginia suburbs — at a stage of his career when he was green and didn’t know what he didn’t know — Eric Schae…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:52PMBack when he was in his 20s and doing community theater in the Northern Virginia suburbs — at a stage of his career when he was green and didn’t know what he didn’t know — Eric Schae…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47AMThursday, December 4, 2014
NEW YORK — Night after night, as the lights go down in the Neil Simon Theatre and musicians on guitar and flute and fiddle begin to play, a multiple Grammy-winning international star settl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:56AMFriday, November 21, 2014
No, not THAT “Nutcracker”! Everyone at Round House Theatre is growing accustomed to correcting this thoroughly understandable misunderstanding. “The Nutcracker” is the company’s la…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:32AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Love of ballet flows from every pore and plie of “Little Dancer.” The new Kennedy Center musical showcases most rewardingly the technical gifts of Tiler Peck, a beguiling New York City B…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:44PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
It’s been perilously gusty this week outside the confines of Theater J — and within. A great torrent of words is whooshing across the company’s stage, courtesy of Tony Kushner and his …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PM 
