Friday, 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 07:15PMIt was always a stunning way to start. “Come look at the freaks!” sang the assorted actors in the short-lived Broadway production of “Side Show” as they introduced themselves to us: …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:17PMThursday, June 5, 2014
NEW YORK—Forget the pesky glasses. You want a movielike experience in 3-D? Feast your eyes on Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s breathtakingly visual new staging of “Macbeth.” The se…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:12PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
If life really were more like a musical, you’d be contented if that life percolated as vibrantly as does “Ordinary Days,” Adam Gwon’s sweet, fleet and tender survey of four youngish …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:49PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
To the crowded ranks of narrators who’ve recounted brushes with mortality through a diagnosis of cancer, add the storyteller Jon Spelman. In his new one-man show, he amiably philosophizes …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:22PMMonday, June 2, 2014
In this case, blood is slicker than writer. The writer in question is one William Shakespeare, composer of numerous masterpieces, and also “Titus Andronicus.” It’s this turgid, pulpy r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:00PMFriday, May 30, 2014
I’m sitting in the living room, staring at my iPhone. My wife says something to me. I don’t respond. She says something else. “What?” I say, looking up. She’s not amused. RSABBO. R…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
As new-season-announcement season winds down, we look today at the ’14-’15 theatrical action plan of Theater J, which has in mind a play by Tony Kushner with a very long title, and n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:11PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
You feel at certain knuckle-gnawing moments of “Cock,” Mike Bartlett’s sizzling seriocomedy of straight-gay indecision, that something is about to explode — that something being the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMMonday, May 12, 2014
Along with all of his centurions and tribunes, a Roman emperor might consider the services of a good editor. This holds especially true for Nero, he of the historically bad rep and, as portr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:48AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
NEW YORK — Nostalgia for an august institution of Georgetown runs rampant in “The City of Conversation,” the splendid new comedy-drama by Anthony Giardina at Lincoln Center Theater. No…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:22PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Horror and disgust seem as if they are the only rational responses to the slaughter of innocents. “The Amish Project” seeks to reveal why forgiveness is equally valid. Except that playwr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:47PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Back and forth we bounce in Gala Hispanic Theatre’s juicily rendered “Living Out,” from the point of view of the fussy, affluent parents to that of the Latina women they hire to mind t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
For the real Brechtian deal, spend a few fulfilling minutes in the presence of Natascia Diaz, the sultry Jenny of Signature Theatre’s capable, lusty-voiced revival of “The Threepenny Ope…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:58PMWith three shows that had pre-Broadway stops in the District garnering a fairly anemic four nods, the 2014 Tony nominations were announced Tuesday morning. The most recognized show was the m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:07PMWith three shows that had pre-Broadway stops in D.C. garnering a fairly anemic four nods, the 2014 Tony nominations were announced Tuesday morning. The most recognized show was the musical, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:09AMFriday, April 25, 2014
New York In his previous Broadway ventures, as the disturbed youth who blinds the horses in “Equus” and the sneaky trainee who dupes the CEO in “How to Succeed in Business Without Real…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
The real test of a Shakespeare company may not be how it handles the best of the plays, but what it does with the least of them. So by all means, experience the delightful, illuminating she…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PMMonday, April 21, 2014
NEW YORK—In his previous Broadway ventures, as the disturbed youth who blinds the horses in “Equus” and the sneaky trainee who dupes the CEO in “How to Succeed in Business Without Re…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:59PMThe revivified National Theatre rolls out its 2014-15 season in our 11th installment of looking ahead at D.C.’s theater offerings. It’s a roster that includes the Washington debuts of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:18AMThe dire turn in Russian-American relations has forced Woolly Mammoth Theatre to cancel a major festival of contemporary Russian theater that would have brought four plays and as many as 90 …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:10AMThursday, April 17, 2014
NEW YORK—As “Act One” would have it, no love is quite so intense and tempestuous as that between a playwright and his play. In fact, in the endearing new stage adaptation of Moss Hart�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:16PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
NEW YORK—The migrant-worker tragedy “Of Mice and Men” may be compulsory reading in freshman English, but should it feel like homework for Broadway audiences, too? A revival of the play…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:13PM“Moth” is “Glee” for the Emo crowd, a look at high school life from the point of view of the disaffected and disenfranchised, the bullied and the brooding. Australian playwright Decl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:42PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Whenever Tovah Feldshuh takes a pensive puff on a cigarette, pounds a frustrated fist on a table or confides a profound anxiety, out of all that smoke, noise and intimation of private terror…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:51PMMonday, April 14, 2014
“The Admission” — Motti Lerner’s controversial play about a massacre of Palestinian civilians that just finished a short, sold-out run at Theater J — will have an afterlife. In an …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:55PMAnyone worrying that the fizz is going out of the theater will find countervailing effervescence in “Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet,” a beguiling confection assembled with glue, hinges…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMViewing the Civil War through the prism of theater, dance and music is the focus of a two-day academic conference next week at George Washington University, which is co-sponsoring the event …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:26PMThursday, April 10, 2014
NEW YORK--The cardinal sin in adapting a Woody Allen film comedy for the stage is forcing the funny. So the creators of “Bullets Over Broadway the Musical,” the sledgehammering act of pe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:11PMSunday, April 6, 2014
In one of the best scenes of “Camp David,” the alternately talky and affecting new play at Arena Stage about the 13 grueling days of negotiations that led to the Middle East’s most dur…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38PMThursday, April 3, 2014
NEW YORK--After a lukewarm stab at “A Raisin in the Sun” a decade ago, director Kenny Leon has returned to Lorraine Hansberry’s definitive story of African-American aspiration with a p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:09PM 
