Monday, November 11, 2013
When 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 02:50PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Don’t think of the time you spend on the tarmac anymore as the takeoff. No, from now on you’re going to have to call it the opening number. At least that’s how it might feel on Virgin …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:01PMThe producers of a newly announced revival of “Gigi” — a stage musical adapted from the Academy Award-winning movie — are hoping that Washington audiences remember it well. The launc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:16PMFriday, November 1, 2013
Idina Menzel knows a thing or two about charmed lives. She is, after all, the original Elphaba, the green-skinned witch of “Wicked,” the megahit Broadway musical that earned her a Tony A…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:52AMThursday, October 31, 2013
By the numbers — and that’s the only way, really, to understand the rationale for “Sister Act,” the musical — the lay of the entertainment land would be welcoming to a stage versio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:45PMMonday, October 28, 2013
So devoted to her delusion of suburban bliss is Carly, the toned Southern belle of “Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill,” that she’s blinded to all of the obvious cracks in the subdivisi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:31PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
“Shut . . . the . . . door!” Erin Weaver’s seething Juliet exclaims through clenched jaw, as she and Eric Hissom’s dazed Friar Lawrence hunker down to absorb the latest shock…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:50PMSunday, October 20, 2013
NEW YORK — They should have renamed it, “A Lot of Time to Kill.” The producers stuck instead with the title it bore at Arena Stage, “A Time to Kill,” the title it shares with the b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:44PMThursday, October 17, 2013
Melissa James Gibson always seems to be writing about what’s not been happening to her characters. In“[sic]”, her subjects were young New York dilettantes, filling their undistinguishe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:50PMAdding to its burgeoning reputation as an importer of high-end artistic wares, Shakespeare Theatre Company will introduce Washington audiences in March to yet another innovative British thea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMFriday, October 4, 2013
When you’re setting a play in a country you’ve never visited, it’s certainly a good idea to run the piece by people with more intimate knowledge of the place. This was the task dramati…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:32AMThursday, October 3, 2013
If you’re any kind of fan of horror movies, then you’ve probably taken in a splatter film or two. But a splatter PLAY? Leave it to the fiendish folks at Synetic Theater to find a way to …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:35PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Boy, when best friends gather in “Rancho Mirage” — the name of both the new play and the deceptively idyllic subdivision of playwright Steven Dietz’s imagination — bottles of wine …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Although “Red Speedo” concerns itself with events that occur in the water, the dramatic element most apparent on this evening at Studio Theatre is hot air. Lucas Hnath’s topical new pl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The most vivacious moments of the new “Measure for Measure” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company — on the whole, an evening on the dry side — aren’t strictly Shakespearean. They’re…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PMMonday, September 23, 2013
The part has bravura written all over it: An octogenarian iconoclast is so enraged at her children’s efforts to send her to an old-age home that she barricades herself in her Brooklyn brow…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:26PMFriday, September 20, 2013
In the daily wrestling match with myself over how I feel about the piece of theater I’m seeing, the amount of money that’s been spent to create it rarely if ever enters my consciousness.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:25PMThursday, September 19, 2013
NEW YORK — The rapturous reception here for Anne Washburn’s dazzling “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play” is not only further validation of the ingenuity of an exciting young dramatist.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:09PMMonday, September 16, 2013
Meet the nightmare neighbors. Their names are Sharon and Kenny, and they’ve just moved into the unkempt tract house next door. Recent graduates of Rehab U., they seem friendly enough, even…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:06PMFriday, September 13, 2013
In its march to the big time, “The Velocity of Autumn” was forced to decelerate. An announcement of Eric Coble’s drama coming to Broadway last spring had been widely publicized, along …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:04AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
“Agnes Under the Big Top” is doughnut theater: a mushy thing with a hole in the middle. Aditi Brennan Kapil’s underdeveloped drama, tying together the stories of immigrants in America…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AMMonday, September 9, 2013
I say unto you that henceforward, the program of every new production of “Torch Song Trilogy” — Harvey Fierstein’s groundbreaking comedy of gay American aspiration — should contain…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:06PMFriday, September 6, 2013
On “Next to Normal’s” official opening night at Arena Stage in late 2008, the show’s creators, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, handed the musical’s producer, David Stone, something he w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:53PMThursday, September 5, 2013
A big-time dancer will step into the ballet slippers in “Little Dancer,” the musical inspired by a famous Edgar Degas subject that will have its world premiere at the Kennedy Center a ye…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:07AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Let’s deal right at the top with the urgent transportation question of the day: Yes, “Miss Saigon” works without the helicopter. Some of you will recall that the technical coup in the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Thank your lucky stars that there’s no place like home. Because home is a hellhole, a dank stone cottage in a stultifying backwater, where your constant companion is a carping parent who b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:43PMFriday, August 16, 2013
Adele Robey took one look at the 5,000 square feet of possibility in Anacostia and decided it had to be hers. “They took me down here and I said: ‘This is it,’ ” she was saying, as…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:19AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Forum Theatre, a 10-year-old Silver Spring-based company with a penchant for boldness, will no longer be setting the price of admission to its plays. You will. In a gambit that will be watch…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24PMFriday, August 9, 2013
Overly dramatic doesn’t begin to describe this old railroad town on the Avon River. So enamored of theater is this locale that matinee performances here run not just on weekends or Wednesd…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Watching a performance by Mitchell Jarvis, you’re struck by the thought that if he showed up at your door, you’d rush to lock away the silverware, the hard liquor and your daughter. In …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Jordan Friend, a recent graduate of Georgetown Day School and a budding theatrical dynamo, went looking for a place to put on a play this summer with a bunch of his old high school pals. Dau…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:50PM 
