Wednesday, 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 07:10PMMonday, November 17, 2014
NEW YORK — “Side Show” looks fabulous and sounds gorgeous on Broadway, the place it establishes through director Bill Condon’s sterling handiwork that it truly belongs. Let’s hope …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:58PMSunday, November 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Entrance applause is the theater world’s People’s Choice Award, the accolade bestowed by audiences on celebrities they admire as they glide into sight for the first time. Or…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
It may set some kind of speed record for turning a news event into a theatrical one. Three months after Ferguson, Mo., became a household name, the city’s unrest over a white police office…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Just as you’re advised to stand back from an electrified third rail, you might want to maintain a safe distance from Daphna and Liam, the hazardous kibitzing cousins of Joshua Harmon’s d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:48PMThursday, November 6, 2014
After 28 years as a key figure in Studio Theatre’s management and programming, Keith Alan Baker has left the company and been replaced as managing director by Meridith Burkus, who joined S…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:34PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The amorous tussle that is “As You Like It” never comes more vigorously to life in the Lansburgh Theatre than when two guys strip off their shirts and go at it on the mat. It’s the wre…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:22PMThursday, October 23, 2014
NEW YORK—The brisk and bristling “Disgraced” confers on Broadway a quality in far too short supply: topicality. Ayad Akhtar’s spiky drama, which had its official opening Thursday ni…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:44PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Give “The Wolfe Twins” time. What begins as a seemingly innocuous story of American tourists in a pensione in Rome eventually gains in power and depth and richness, to the point at which…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:57PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Lots of theatergoers will envy the life-changing lightning that strikes Olivia in Laura Eason’s scrumptious “Sex With Strangers.” Snowbound in a Michigan cabin where she’s working on…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47PMSunday, October 19, 2014
“Unlikely” doesn’t begin to describe the friendship struck up in the mid-1960s between heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and movie actor Stepin Fetchit. One was an empowering figure of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:01PMThursday, October 16, 2014
As a fable about evangelism-as-show-business, the musical version of “Elmer Gantry” is for much of the evening at Signature Theatre a smooth and confident ride, especially when it’s cr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:11PMNEW YORK — When Tiler Peck was 18 and a rising star of the dance world, something happened to her that nobody was quite prepared for. A setback. See, this precocious golden girl from the G…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PMIt isn’t every day that an American stage director has the notion of producing an Israeli play and taking it on the road. But Guy Ben-Aharon isn’t every American stage director. Tired of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:43AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
NEW YORK—What the heck is with these guys? The thought is inescapable as you watch “Tail! Spin!”, Mario Correa’s juicy exercise in satirical target practice, at the Lynn Redgrave…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:25PMMonday, October 13, 2014
NEW YORK—Deeply absorbing drama may not be the export that comes most vividly to mind when one thinks of West Virginia. Certainly, though, “Uncanny Valley,” Thomas Gibbons’s cerebral…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:27AMFriday, October 10, 2014
NEW YORK — Darren Bagert saw “Side Show” in San Diego — five times, in fact. Night after night he sat in the La Jolla Playhouse last fall, taking notes on director Bill Condon’s re…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:17PMThursday, October 9, 2014
NEW YORK — Some theater lovers’ idea of heaven just may be a soigné Manhattan apartment where for all eternity Nathan Lane is perched on a lounge, holding a tumbler of scotch and chatt…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:09PMSunday, October 5, 2014
NEW YORK — As she did with “War Horse,” director Marianne Elliott devises in the stimulating new stage adaptation of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” a luminou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53PMSunday, September 28, 2014
NEW YORK — One person’s charming escapade is another person’s cloying chestnut. In the case of the new Broadway revival of “You Can’t Take It With You,” count me with that other…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:10PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Any enterprise that begins with Jayne Houdyshell offers the possibility for true happiness. And indeed, Arena Stage’s “The Shoplifters” does start off on an amusing footing, with Houdy…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:51PMSunday, September 21, 2014
You can’t stop the drama — even when the government tries to. An example of this phenomenon presented itself on Friday night at Georgetown University, where a Syrian refugee, speaking by…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:22PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
“Toast,” the latest interactive performance piece from dog & pony dc, takes audience participation into a new arena — or maybe not so new, to anyone who’s ever been on one of tho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57PMMonday, September 15, 2014
You haven’t heard Mozart until he’s been played on marimbas. You’re in luck, too, because the opportunity presents itself this week in Washington in the Isango Ensemble’s remarkable …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:04PMSunday, September 14, 2014
Tony-winning Signature Theatre has always gone its own way, musically speaking — especially when it comes to scouring the countryside for original material. This season alone, the Shirling…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:43PMThursday, September 11, 2014
NEW YORK—That kid you loved on “Arrested Development” is now that guy you’ll adore on Broadway. Michael Cera makes a sublime debut on the theater world’s biggest stage alongside tw…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:31PMNEW YORK — That kid you loved on “Arrested Development” is now that guy you’ll adore on Broadway. Michael Cera makes a sublime debut on the theater world’s biggest stage alongside …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:01PMWednesday, September 10, 2014
“Belleville” is the sort of atmospheric thriller that comes to a delicate boil under a slender flame and leaves you, after all is ominously said and done, a bit creeped out but less th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:39PMThank heaven for teen movie sensations: They grow up in the most theatrical ways. Take, for instance, Vanessa Hudgens, star of Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, who will headli…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
The solid “King Lear”at Folger Theatre is so modestly mounted, it could fit in the pockets of other recent productions of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. Eight actors play all of the ro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PMMonday, September 8, 2014
It’s the halftime show that’s really got game in Andrew Hinderaker’s exhilarating new football play, “Colossal.” The actors portraying grunting college linemen and cornerbacks beco…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:16PM 
