Monday, 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 07:16PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Musicals by their nature traffic in fantasy. What after all is less reflective of everyday reality than characters who regularly, seemingly spontaneously, burst into song? This assertively …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:52PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Like its audacious heroine, the new stage version of “Yentl” gets itself into a bit of a pickle. To Isaac Bashevis Singer’s tale of a young, knowledge-craving Jewish woman who disguise…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:19PMThursday, August 28, 2014
It had the potential to be one of the most galvanizing cultural events of the season: A dozen Syrian women, refugees from that besieged country, performing in Washington a version of a 2,500…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:04PMFriday, August 22, 2014
All over the place, foolish fond old monarchs are dropping like anguished flies. In Chicago and New York, in London and Toronto and Washington, actors in shredded costumes are raging on temp…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMThursday, August 21, 2014
In “She Kills Monsters,” Rorschach Theatre boldly goes where a generation of dungeon masters has gone before, to tell the story of a young woman who, in losing herself in a game, reclaim…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:04PMTuesday, August 19, 2014
Sometimes, a painting strikes you as so glorious it seems to sing to you. On far rarer occasions, it actually does. The latter illusion is sustained breathtakingly in Stephen Sondheim and Ja…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:20AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
On Tuesday night, the cast and audience of Broadway’s “Aladdin” sang a tribute to the late Robin Williams — the Genie of the animated movie version — in the form of a portion of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
NEW YORK — It’s kind of wild, if not entirely wonderful, what Cate Blanchett and her co-conspirators achieve in their revival of Jean Genet’s louche tragicomedy, “The Maids.” With …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
“Side Show” has booked its return ticket to Broadway. The well-received Kennedy Center revival of the 1997 musical will begin performances Oct. 28 at the St. James Theatre, with an openi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:01PMThe new lineup for No Rules Theatre , the six-year-old company with the unique geographic identity—it presents work annually both in Arlington and in Winston-Salem, N.C.—is described …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
NEW YORK — It’s not only the murdered Cordelia that John Lithgow bears onto the open-air stage of the Public Theater’s “King Lear.” All evening, this big, winning lug of an acto…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:57PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Do to Chekhov’s “The Seagull” what you will, I suppose. Pepper the dialogue with f-bombs; give Masha a ukulele and Konstantin a laptop; add a bit of nudity. Break down the barriers bet…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMFriday, July 25, 2014
LONDON — When actors as demonstrably intelligent as Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy are let loose on an artfully crafted piece of penetrating drama, something special is bound to happen. And…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AMThursday, July 17, 2014
As acting breeds go, Elaine Stritch was one of theater’s Great Dames. She strayed, from time to time, into movies and television over the course of an astonishing 70 years in show business…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Sam can’t understand what’s happening to him — or, for that matter, what’s going on with his best friend, Jacob, who suddenly has taken to intimidating and denouncing him, especially…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PMWith the 2014-15 season kinda sorta already underway, we sample today the late-reporting Forum Theatre and its new slate of offerings. The Little Company That Could on Colesville Road in Sil…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PMMonday, July 14, 2014
When the musical version of Stephen King’s “Carrie” opened on Broadway in 1988, the reviews were so poisonous that it shuttered within three days, going into the books as one of the mo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMFriday, July 11, 2014
View Photo Gallery —Elaborate costumes and new songs are featured in this re-working of the 1997 Broadway musical. It is based on the true story of the Hilton twins, Daisy and Violet, Brit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
LONDON — You have only to make your way to a seat in the Lyttleton Theatre in London to discover the depths of compassion you could muster for George Clooney. No, Clooney is nowhere to be …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:41PMFriday, June 20, 2014
For the purest distillation in popular culture in these days of Jekyll and Hyde, look not to a character but to a city. On the one hand, we have President Frank Underwood, who connives in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:37AMCapped by two climactic, heartbreaking songs and two tender, epic performances, the “Side Show” that has been given a new life by the Kennedy Center is an intoxicating experience — a p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32AMThursday, June 19, 2014
Capped by two climactic, heartbreaking songs and two tender, epic performances, the “Side Show” that has been given a new life by the Kennedy Center is an intoxicating experience — a p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:52PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
NEW YORK—The drink cart rolled out at the conclusion of “Here Lies Love” is completely in keeping with the party-hearty spirit of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s boisterous rock musica…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:34PM“That is something I never thought I’d do,” an actor declares in the midst of “Cloak and Dagger.” He might, in fact, want to hold that thought, as he reflects in his maturing years…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:03PMFriday, June 13, 2014
The poignant essence of Liz Lerman’s world-premiere dance-theater piece, “Healing Wars,” reveals itself on a simple wood and steel bench in Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle, where a perfor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:08PMMichael Urie understands completely why one person in particular has not been to see “Buyer and Cellar.” He’s often asked about it, of course, but early in the run of the off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
That breeze wafting through the Lansburgh Theatre is the air of soigne craftsmanship, borne on the currents of director Maria Aitken’s suavely-attired revival of Noel Coward’s evergreen …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:01PMMonday, June 9, 2014
At the start of “The Totalitarians,” a young man appears before us in a knitted mask that obscures his mouth and renders his opening speech pretty much unintelligible. “Ffmmmmm bff llv…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMNEW YORK — A silly musical comedy about a British pauper who knocks off a string of aristocrats was the big winner at the 68th Tony Awards on Sunday night, earning the prize for outstandin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:03AMFriday, June 6, 2014
Would Audra McDonald’s trophy shelf collapse under the weight of a sixth Tony? Will the statuette for best new musical go to a show whose songs were actually composed in this century? Will…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:15PM 
