Thursday, 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 09:09PMThe serious legal scholarship of Monty Python meets the comedy stylings of the U.S. Supreme Court in “Arguendo,” a verbatim re-enactment of a constitutional case like none you’d ever s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
A misunderstanding about who would direct Taylor Mac’s play “Hir” (pronounced “Here”) has prompted the New York-based actor and playwright to withdraw his work from Studio Theatre�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:56PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
“I’m a storyteller,” the protagonist, Diana, declares in the opening moments of Allyson Currin’s “The Carolina Layaway Grail,” and what an appropriate prologue for the introducto…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMToday, theater lovers and other curious readers, we lay out for you Folger Theatre ‘s 2014-15 season, the 10th of our dives into the theater waves of Washington’s future. Folger’s plan…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:20AMSunday, March 30, 2014
NEW YORK — The new “If/Then” is sleeker, smarter and runs far more efficiently than last year’s ungainlier model, the one that had its test-drive in Washington last fall. Its heart i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:27PMThe great Janet Suzman and her energetic co-star, Khayalethu Anthony, form an endearing partnership in “Solomon and Marion” — so agreeable, in fact, that you’re doubly disappointed b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:55PMStudio Theatre‘s 2014-15 season is the subject of today’s gaze into the dramatic future, and it includes the world premiere of a comedy, “Laugh,” by Beth Henley (“Crimes of the Hea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:25AMThursday, March 27, 2014
“Not by Bread Alone,” the most exotic entry in the Kennedy Center’s 15-production World Stages festival, comes across less as a play or performance piece than as a kind of drama therap…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
In Theater J’s spellbinding premiere of Motti Lerner’s “The Admission,” the legacy of Israel’s violent birth seems to bubble and swirl continually, as if being fed by a bottomless …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:57PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
BALTIMORE — Release the Grundle? Oh, no, no, NO! Well, wait. Okay, new thought: do, do, DO release the Grundle, that bellicosely fleshy rocker-monster who uses an extra set of arms to play…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMThursday, March 20, 2014
NEW YORK--”Animated” doesn’t begin to describe the frantic, screwball version of Disney’s “Aladdin” that opened Thursday night on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, with a bu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:16PMThe notion of human beings as solo travelers is poignantly challenged in Marguerite Duras’s “Savannah Bay,” a play from France that is as freshly and lovingly cultivated as a newly mow…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Get ready to hear the guys from “Diner” crooning a score by Sheryl Crow in a familiar theater in Arlington. . A new musical version of the acclaimed 1982 movie, with music and lyrics by …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PMLucky No. 7 in our series of theater previews occurs today with an exploration of the 2014-15 season at Arlington’s Signature Theatre. It’s a lineup that includes three world premiere m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PMFord’s Theatre’s 2014-15 schedule comes under the microscope in the 8th installment of our previews of forthcoming theater in the D.C. region, and the image coming into focus most vividl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PMFriday, March 14, 2014
When practiced deftly, diplomacy is likened to an art. But can it also be an entertainment? The question is being taken up at the moment at Arena Stage, where a journalist-playwright and a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:56PMWe turn our attention today to Arlington, Va. for the sixth installment of our 2014-15 previewing, and a look at the forthcoming shows of scrappy Crystal City-based Synetic Theater, oversee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:39PMThursday, March 13, 2014
NEW YORK — With the electrifying climax they’ve come up with for the new musical version of “Rocky,” director Alex Timbers and his creative team reveal themselves to be true lords of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:15PMThe list of Rupert Murdoch’s business conquests is long. “Rupert” feels even longer. A deal-by-deal account of the media titan’s voracious career, during which he’s gobbled up ever…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:46AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
You’d be hard-pressed to launch an expedition to theater from around the globe more auspiciously than with “The Suit,” a movingly evocative South African fable about folly and unforgiv…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:43AMMonday, March 10, 2014
NEW YORK — Usually, talking during a performance is strictly a no-no. But in the final days last fall of the Washington tryout of their new musical “If/Then,” Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMAddiction binds together the disparate characters of Quiara Alegria Hudes’s “Water by the Spoonful,” but an even more tenacious adversary has a hold on them: shame, of a kind that simm…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:13PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
“Fallujah” March 29, Terrace Gallery Countries: Iraq, Canada Description: A staged reading of a new chamber opera by Iraqi American playwright Heather Raffo and Canadian composer To…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:58PM“Rupert” March 12-15, Eisenhower Theater Country: Australia Description: From the Melbourne Theatre Company comes David Williamson’s cabaret-influenced play about Australian-born …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:58PM“Savannah Bay” March 19-22, Family Theater Country: France Description: Marguerite Duras’s 1982 play is revived by Thé âtre de l’Atelier and tells the story of a young woman p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:51PM“Not by Bread Alone” March 25-26, Terrace Theater Country: Israel Description: Eleven members of the Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble give audiences a sense of the ext…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:45PM“Solomon and Marion” March 28-30, Terrace Theater Country: South Africa Description: Lara Foot’s play, in a production by the Cape Town-based Baxter Theatre Centre, details a clas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:45PM“The Suit” March 11-13, Terrace Theater Country: France Description: Peter Brook’s Paris-based Thé âtre des Bouffes du Nord performs this South African play by Can Themba, Motho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:39PMFriday, March 7, 2014
o the layout of the Kennedy Center, with its sweeping Hall of States and Hall of Nations, you can add the halls of global drama. ¶ From Tuesday until April 6, the stages of the august perfo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:07PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Fifth in our series of glimpses of the theater future: Round House Theatre’s 2014-15 season. (We’ve previously taken tours of the forthcoming dramatic agendas of Shakespeare Theatre Co…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:52PM 
