Thursday, 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 08:14PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
You know it as the sculptural quintessence of grit, grace and love of ballet. Now see it as a musical. Edgar Degas’s world famous “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen” is the inspiration for …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMSunday, April 14, 2013
What one generation absorbs as abject suffering, the next may experience as utter bewilderment. For befuddled is how Andy Glickstein stumbles through his out-loud-neurotic, Jewish American l…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMFriday, April 12, 2013
ORANGEBURG, N.Y. — In the basement recording studio of a tract house in an aging subdivision, a former poet laureate of the United States rocks back and forth to the improvisational licks …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:13PMThursday, April 11, 2013
NEW YORK — Dwelling among us, ladies and gentlemen, is a super-race of tiny entertainment machines. Disguised as children, they sing, act, dance, tumble and generally bedazzle, as if each …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:51PMWith a voice that rumbles and quakes like an avalanche, Patrick Page unleashes his catalytic energy on “Coriolanus,” the Shakespearean tragedy that builds ever so incrementally to a roar…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:08PMMonday, April 8, 2013
He smokes. He cusses. He drinks. He comes on to a woman who isn’t his wife. But he also speaks in the inspirational voice of a Gandhi-esque leader who forced America to search its conscien…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMThursday, April 4, 2013
NEW YORK — When it’s good, “Kinky Boots,” the new Broadway musical with the rocking Cyndi Lauper score, is sweetly, vivaciously, irresistibly good. And when it’s not so good — we…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
That dependably major meteorological event, Hurricane Daisey, has swept back into Washington. As with past storms of this variety, the latest one seeks to shake an institution to its foundat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:05PMMonday, April 1, 2013
With actress Naomi Jacobson perched on a stand as she’s fitted for a gown in Arena Stage’s “Mary T. & Lizzy K.,” an audience learns what’s in and what’s out in mid-19th-centu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:05PMSunday, March 31, 2013
If Mount Rushmore had been carved to enshrine Broadway musicals rather than presidents, the four faces gazing majestically out from the mountain might look something like this: Yul Brynner a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:21PMFriday, March 29, 2013
NEW YORK — From the outset, the box-office appeal of “Really Really” astonished actor-turned-playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo. He was surprised when Eric Schaeffer, Signature Theatre’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:22PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Please give a warm welcome to Amy Herzog, a playwright of distinction whose rich portfolio you’ll want to get to know. Shaped by deft observation and psychological texture, her work has be…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Whether it’s an intensifying appetite for novelty, a newfound embrace of boldness — or maybe an increase in spinach consumption — something has gotten into the theater makers who are d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48PMFriday, March 8, 2013
The turntable on which Sweden’s Royal Dramatic Theatre places its stage version of “Fanny and Alexander” is an apt visual clue to director Stefan Larsson’s elegant production — a b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:47PMIn college, Zach Appelman heard voices. And they convinced him that he was on the right track. They came to him through speakers and ear buds: the honeyed sounds of great Shakespeareans, act…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:49PMMonday, March 4, 2013
As plans for the new Washington theater season take shape, the lineup across the region is looking ever nervier. Although an occasional company is going for the tried-and-true — witness th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Synetic Theater is up to its old tricks. Which, of course, is very good news. It’s added a few new tricks, too, in its never-ending quest for acrobatic dazzle, with a wet-and-wild version …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMIdina Menzel, one of the original cast members of “Rent” and a Tony winner for the role of Elphaba in “Wicked,” will star in a new Broadway-bound musical by the creators of “Next t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
With a disarming disregard for theatrical convention, the actor playing the weak-willed Jorgen Tesman in the National Theatre of Norway’s radically pared-down “Hedda Gabler” performs a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMMonday, February 25, 2013
How’s this for casting coups? Kathleen Turner as Mother Courage! The earthy Turner must have had a blast at Arena Stage last summer playing the tart-tongued liberal columnist Molly Ivins, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:37PMSunday, February 24, 2013
“Canterbury” is what might happen to Chaucer’s raucous 14th-century pilgrims if they stopped for a brewski or three at an English major’s dorm party. Draped in Natalie Drutz’s witt…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:56PMFriday, February 22, 2013
It was one of those calls that can set aflutter the heart of the toughest showbiz veteran, even one accustomed to the wearying whims of the most demanding of Broadway directors and producers…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:17PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
The first word uttered in Mary Zimmerman’s luminously liquid pageant of ancient myths is “Bodies,” and how fitting that proves to be. Over the 100 shimmering minutes of “Metamorphose…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:34PMMonday, February 18, 2013
Theater lovers might want to get out their global positioning systems and plug in the settings for Montgomery County, because a new sense of dramatic direction is taking hold in the capital�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:37PMIt isn’t every dramatist these days who can sustain a nuanced narrative through a full three hours and two intermissions — a feat that makes all the more impressive Danai Gurira’s abso…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PMIt’s the most famous teenage kiss of all time. “O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray,” Romeo declares on that fateful night of love at first sight at the Capulets�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AMFriday, February 15, 2013
It’s the most famous teenage kiss of all time. “O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray,” Romeo declares on that fateful night of love at first sight at the Capulets�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:16AMThursday, February 14, 2013
The distance between Round House Theatre in Bethesda and Theater J on 16th Street NW is only about seven miles, yet at the moment, that trip covers a large patch of David Mamet’s polarizin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:27PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Fear not: The power surges occurring frequently and without warning inside Signature Theatre present no cause for alarm. They are, in fact, the reason you want to get as close as possible to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:56PMMonday, February 11, 2013
The people of “Good People” aren’t all that good — which is partly why the play is better than good. As consequences of David Lindsay-Abaire’s wisdom-filled script and Jackie Maxwe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:23PM 
