Friday, 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 12:50PMSunday, July 21, 2013
“A Killing Game” is, at last, dead-on. Those other-centered folks at Dog & Pony D.C. — the company that wants to put you in the actor’s seat — have brought back their disease-m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:22PMThursday, July 18, 2013
In the solemn “Fallbeil,” a young German woman whose soldier-brother has been horrifically maimed in a terror attack gains strength from her encounters with the ghost of a young German w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:15PMThe path from offbeat movie inspiration to generic musical passes directly through “Spin,” the bouncy work-in-progress that is christening Signature Theatre’s new Siglab musical develo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The moment has come for delving into that hypnotic stage ritual that can cause you to space out on sensation — like you’re under sedation. To achieve this altered state, you have to jump…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:39PMWith a slight nod to “Carrie,” the monodrama “Marsha” tells the story of a troubled, neglected little girl, who, left to her own devices in a cold and insular town, wreaks a kind of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
With their customary assortment of gags, jabs, songs and jibes, the jokesters of Chicago’s venerable Second City are back in town. And if the shivs they plunge into an array of soft target…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:29PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
As a title, “How to be a Terrorist” is the fringe equivalent of click bait. Monologist Jimmy Grzelak of Southwick, Mass., newly graduated from Williams College, knows just how to pique t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:37PMFriday, July 12, 2013
First, he was a storyteller. Then he was a scandal. And now, at last, he’s a musical. You know who I’m talkin’ about: the controversial Mike Daisey, immortalized in the rhythms of soft…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:45PMFor success these days with a new American musical, try adding a little Seoul. Neil Bartram and Brian Hill are doing exactly that, staying in a Shirlington flat as they whip into shape their…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:04PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Don’t believe what they say. Money can buy happiness. It’s yours for the price of a ticket to “The Book of Mormon.” And if you’re already in possession of one, then you’ve wisely…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:16PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
NEW YORK — Although the Capital Fringe Festival isn’t beginning its eighth installment in and around Mount Vernon Square until Thursday, it has already opened its doors in a city 220 mil…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PMMonday, July 1, 2013
“Baby Universe” is adorable. And a nightmare. We’ve come to that point, it seems, when tales of the end of human history are no longer the exclusive domain of wild-eyed prognosticators…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PMFriday, June 28, 2013
LONDON — God save the king — of theaters. By virtue of its extraordinary range and acumen, the National Theatre, the 50-year-old company that since 1976 has operated out of a bulky moder…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:30PMThursday, June 27, 2013
In another sign of intensifying competition for performance spaces in and around the D.C. region, Round House Theatre is giving up its successful satellite theater in Silver Spring next June…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PMFriday, June 7, 2013
By the time of the late local news on Sunday, “Matilda” should be waltzing. Dancing away, that is, with most of the Tony Awards for which the musical is eligible during the 67th annua…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:19AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
In the early 1940s, a young man named John Biggers enrolled at Hampton Institute, a black college near Norfolk, at the same time that Viktor Lowenfeld, a painter and art scholar who had fled…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:01PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
The laughs are as big as the perplexities of personality are deep in Signature Theatre’s creditable, vocally adept version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s oft-revived “Company.�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMThursday, May 30, 2013
When you gaze at the person you’ve chosen to spend your life with, what do you really see? Or more to the point, as the Kennedy Center’s beguiling “The Guardsman” asks: What don’t …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
If there’s a stairway to musical-theater heaven, it will be winding next season through Washington. With the announcement Tuesday of a bold new four-show Broadway subscription series at th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:53PMMonday, May 27, 2013
Vows do not mean much to Henry, the adulterous playwright at the center of “The Real Thing.” But words do. He’s so high-minded about language, in fact, that he refuses to help his seco…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:36PMFriday, May 24, 2013
“The Guardsman”? Really? That Paleolithic bit of Broadway foolery? The farcical vehicle that once upon a time (1924, to be exact) starred the erstwhile duke and duchess of the American …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07AMMonday, May 20, 2013
BALTIMORE — Of all the nerve! Kwame Kwei-Armah, CenterStage’s exuberant artistic director, believes theater is such a vital aspect of the culture that a Pulitzer Prize-winning play on th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45PMIf only life offered the second chance Shakespeare so magnanimously grants the monstrously miscalculating Leontes of his late-career romance “The Winter’s Tale.” Sixteen years of penit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:37AMIn a town possessed of more than its fair share of residents with impressive credentials, Hannah Yelland manages to stand out. Yes, Washington is home to ambassadors and generals and Cabinet…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:37AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Sometimes, in its ongoing bout with Shakespeare’s canon, Folger Theatre goes for the outright pin. At other times, it seems content with a draw. Its new “Twelfth Night” qualifies in th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:17PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Amid the cacti and tennis courts, betrayal lies in wait. The comfortably arid retirement of Lyman and Polly Wyeth — impeccably groomed survivors of Old Hollywood and California Republican …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:14PMFriday, May 3, 2013
In the expansive living room of their bright Tribeca apartment, Jon Robin Baitz and his friendly, three-legged dog Trip both pad about restlessly, looking for comfortable places to alight. F…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PMSunday, April 28, 2013
NEW YORK — The beat of David Byrne’s sexy new life-of-Imelda-Marcos musical, “Here Lies Love,” never rests. And neither, for that matter, does the audience. In a black-box-turned-dis…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:33PMFriday, April 19, 2013
NEW YORK — Lest you imagine the career’s a wrap for 85-year-old Harold Prince, imagine again. Not only is he working on a retrospective musical, “The Prince of Broadway,” based on hi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMThursday, April 18, 2013
“First of all, forget about the Thirty Years’ War,” the conflict-hardened and battle-weary Gen. Albrecht Wallenstein advises an audience in the first seconds of Shakespeare Theatre Com…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PM 
