Tuesday, 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 02:08PMMonday, January 13, 2014
As the deaf son of hearing parents in Nina Raine’s turbulent, absorbing “Tribes,” James Caverly’s Billy sits Sphinx-like at family meals, his placid features an invitation to conject…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:18PMThursday, January 9, 2014
Signature Theatre’s gripping “Gypsy,” a revival of the 1959 musical that is fortified by the crackerjack central performances of Sherri L. Edelen as Momma Rose and Maria Rizzo as daugh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:23AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Had it up to here with the best-of-everything lists in multiples of five, 10 and 100? In lieu of another shout-out to the great nights and another shout-down of the benighted, what follows i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AMFriday, January 3, 2014
On the first days of rehearsal, when everyone tends to be a little formal, anyway, Michael Tolaydo was conscious of dealing even more gingerly with a castmate, Joey Caverly, because he is de…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:08AMThursday, December 26, 2013
As in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” Darrah Cloud’s new play, “Our Suburb,” attempts to catalogue the waves of joy, anxiety, hope and loss that lap up in an average American commu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMMonday, December 23, 2013
A school of thought has it that “Gypsy” is the greatest American musical of all time. Signature Theatre’s riveting revival offers breath-stopping instruction in why. Directed by Joe Ca…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:28PMFriday, December 20, 2013
It drives Diane Paulus nuts, seeing people asleep in their theater seats. Not because she considers it a breach of playgoing etiquette. No, the torture for this Tony-winning director is the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:54AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Can the Kennedy Center dream bigger? For an institution striving to be America’s premier showplace for the performing arts, the pressure to be all things to all constituencies has to be en…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Bolstered by the well-received performances of its stars, Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, Arena Stage’s production of “The Velocity of Autumn” is moving to Broadway. The comedy-d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:05AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
In suburban Trumbull, Conn., a controversy has been raging for several weeks now, over the plans for a high school production of “Rent” next spring that were summarily cancelled by the p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMMonday, December 9, 2013
For top honors in this year’s contest for most ironic casting decision, I nominate Mikhail Baryshnikov, playing the role of a man who refuses to dance. Would seem a waste of a powerful pai…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:08PMSunday, December 8, 2013
When I say that the new stage version of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is like a Tyler Perry comedy, only better, I do not mean to cast aspersions on the entertainment empire Perry’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PMFriday, December 6, 2013
In Shirley MacLaine’s hilltop retreat, a homestead at once serene and spectacular, the walls talk to you. Oh, not in the mystical way the name of this forever spiritually questing actress …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMThursday, December 5, 2013
The longest silence in “The Lyons,” Nicky Silver’s scathing comedy of familial malevolence, is the one that follows the line: “Let’s talk about something pleasant.” The Lyons, pi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:26AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
It was in Washington, history records, that Stephen Sondheim made the crucial change that sent “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum” to Broadway as one of the pillars of American …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:48PMFriday, November 29, 2013
Growing up in Riga, Latvia, little Misha was introduced to the world of drama by his culture-vulture mom, Alexandra. “When I was 5 or 6, my mother used to drag me around to the theater,”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PMThursday, November 28, 2013
Give thanks this week that the Apples fall among us. They’re a variety of family whose grown-up members gather, via playwright Richard Nelson’s imagination, in four buoyant and moving pl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:39PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Who knew Baryshnikov was a theater kid? Growing up in Riga, Latvia, little Misha was introduced to the world of drama by his culture-vulture mom, Alexandra. “When I was 5 or 6, my mother u…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:57PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Woolly Mammoth Theatre is one of five recipients nationwide of a major grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation designed to help performing arts institutions navigate changes in the a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMMonday, November 25, 2013
The brainchild of composer Tom Kitt and book and lyric writer Brian Yorkey of “Next to Normal” fame, “If/Then” boasts a number of appealing features, including an earthy star with he…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:11PMEver buy an appliance with so many working parts that you feel the need to read the owner’s manual again and again? A first sitting through “If/Then,” the charming and ungainly new mus…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26PMThursday, November 21, 2013
Spurred by the controversy over Theater J’s forthcoming presentation of “The Admission” — a play by Israeli dramatist Motti Lerner that has drawn fire from some local pro-Israel acti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMMonday, November 18, 2013
“If/Then” is the most entertaining musical I haven’t seen.
Allow me to explain: the new musical, starring Idina Menzel and created by the folks who brought you “Next to Normal,” h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:00PM“If/Then” is the most entertaining musical I haven’t seen. Allow me to explain: the new musical, starring Idina Menzel and created by the folks who brought you “Next to Normal,” ha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMFriday, November 15, 2013
Back in the good old days — well, 2005, anyway — the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington’s premier classical theater, mounted a fine holiday production. Lo and behold, it was by Sh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:43PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Sometimes, the rawest ingredients yield the deepest flavors, as the basic instinct-driven power players passionately demonstrate in “Mies Julie,” the captivating South African reincarnat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:57PMIf there were any doubts that the long-under-used National Theatre is back in the hunt for sought-after fare, the news that it will serve as the local stop for the national tour of Broadway�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Malvolio’s famous words have never rung truer than at this moment in Broadway’s Belasco Theatre, where they are gleefully recalled in every priceless audience encounter with Mark Rylance…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:43PMWhen it comes to fruit from a poisoned tree, the biliously funny “Appropriate” displays it by the bushel. The young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins dreams up a nasty extended family th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PM 
