Thursday, 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 05:52PMNEW YORK — Bryan Cranston for president! Portraying America’s 36th chief executive, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in Robert Schenkkan’s democratic procedural drama “All the Way,” Cranston…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:40PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Thank the gods, or at least the licensing people: in the new stage version of “Beaches,” we get to hear “The Wind Beneath My Wings.” It arrives during Act 2 of this amiable throwback…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PMDavid Stone, producer of Broadway’s new musical "If/Then," starring Idina Menzel, says that the box office receipts for the show doubled on Monday, after Menzel sang on the Oscars Sunday n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:41PMThe Kennedy Center rolled out its 2014-15 performance map today, and included in the voluminous document are the plans for its theater offerings for the coming season, including the world …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:07AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Up now for your delectation: the 2014-15 season at Arena Stage . Nine productions, five of them world premieres, including this sure-to-be talk-of-the-town entry: “The Originalist,” a n…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:20AMFor anyone who finds the persona of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a little bit theatrical, Arena Stage thinks it’s found the perfect play. Next season, the company will stage the wo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:40AMThursday, February 20, 2014
NEW YORK -- Were it not for the emotional crescendos Kelli O’Hara achieves with Jason Robert Brown’s swooningly melodic score, the new Broadway version of “The Bridges of Madison Count…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:13PMThe Women’s Voices Festival just got louder. The Kennedy Center and four other companies have been added to the list of participating theaters in the fall 2015 festival. This brings to 49 …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:59PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
It’s the oldest story on Broadway. And still the most irresistible.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:44AMMonday, February 17, 2014
NEW YORK — It’s the oldest story on Broadway. And still the most irresistible. A young actress, seemingly out of nowhere — okay, American University by way of Howard County and Glenelg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Fresh today in our ongoing assessment of the newly announced theater seasons in and around DC for 2014-15: Woolly Mammoth . (Previously covered: Shakespeare Theatre Company.) Company trade…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21AMSunday, February 9, 2014
A big black pit is the fitting landscape in which director Molly Smith situates her creditable new production of “Mother Courage and her Children,” Bertolt Brecht’s bleak and sprawling…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:30PMFriday, February 7, 2014
The city fathers (and mothers) of “Beertown” — that fictional bastion of ballot-worshiping democracy — have temporarily pulled up stakes inside the Beltway and resettled smack-dab in…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Describing “Yellow Face” as a deeply personal manifesto about Asian American identity certainly runs the risk of my sounding as if it’s a play for an audience of ethnologists. So let m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:09PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
NEW YORK--The city fathers (and mothers) of “Beertown“--that fictional bastion of ballot-worshiping democracy--have temporarily pulled up stakes inside the beltway and resettled smack da…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:40AMMonday, February 3, 2014
A kingdom built on graves. Given the discovery in 2012 of the purported final resting place of the real King Richard III, one would be hard-pressed to come up with a central image timelier a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:57PMToday, Shakespeare Theatre Company becomes the first of the subscription theaters in DC to announce its 2014-15 season. As the various companies in and around town announce what they’re d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:34AMFriday, January 31, 2014
At the Kennedy Center come March, all the world’s ON stage. From China and Chile the plays will arrive, and from France and Kuwait and Canada and Australia and Mexico and Israel and South …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PMThursday, January 30, 2014
From the moment the spiritually and physically scarred heroine boards that Tulsa-bound Greyhound bus in “Violet,” the slight and earnest gospel rock musical that formally opened Wednesda…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:01PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
The new “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Shakespeare Theatre Company is impeccably done. And if you don’t buy tickets to this amusingly sunny mounting of Oscar Wilde’s exquisitel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:46PMLeaders of the Dramatists Guild of America spoke out on Monday against a campaign being waged by a local ad-hoc group against a forthcoming play at Washington’s Theater J that looks critic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:09AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Forty-four theater companies in the Washington region have signed on to the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, which will present 44 world premieres by women over an eight-week period in the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AMThursday, January 23, 2014
The Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, encompassing virtually every large, midsize and fledgling theater company in and around the city, is being billed as a seminal event in the effort to p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:20PMForty-four Washington theater companies announced today that each will produce a world-premiere play by a female dramatist in the fall of 2015, in one of the more audacious and ambitious res…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
On Broadway, does Carole King trump Janis Joplin? Producers of “A Night With Janis Joplin” announced this week that the concert-style musical about hard-driving, hard-living rock legend…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:27PMFriday, January 17, 2014
For your serving of “Violet”: Will that be one act, or two? Here’s the odd turn of events in the life of this rarely seen musical, a minor sensation in its brief off-Broadway run 17 ye…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38PMThursday, January 16, 2014
Say this for Daniel Radcliffe: Where a lot of other actors who’ve made their names in movies have treated the stage as a stopover, the 24-year-old star of the “Harry Potter” franchise …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PMThe folks at Synetic Theater, those wranglers of movement, muscle and art, have put on lots of Shakespeare in their time. Now, with an exuberant adaptation of “Twelfth Night,” they’re …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Several months ago, Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage, approached me with an intriguing offer: organizing and moderating a series of discussions, with theater people and topics o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:35PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
In just the way a 9-year-old might think a big problem could be wished away with colored pencils and glitter, Anu Yadav conjures a whimsical brainstorm as little Meena, the heroine of her pr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:08PM 
