Monday, 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 09:23PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Jason Loewith, an award-winning musical writer, stage director and national leader in the development of new American plays, has been appointed artistic director of Olney Theatre Center, the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PMFriday, February 1, 2013
David Lindsay-Abaire, author of the most-produced play in America this season, is sitting in a Brooklyn coffee shop, marveling at his excellent fortune. It isn’t a mere five or six profess…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:00PMThursday, January 31, 2013
The stark visual eloquence of Ford’s Theatre’s revival of “Our Town” informs Thornton Wilder’s portrait of the ordinary joys and sorrows of fictional Grover’s Corners, N.H. But t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:55PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Let’s stipulate right off the bat that Danny Gavigan makes for a dashing caped crusader. No, not the one with the souped-up car and the sidekick and the high Hollywood profile. This other …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:49PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Demonstrating decisively that a hero can always be found waiting in the wings, a young actor by the name of Zach Appelman has come along to grab hold of the oratorical reins of “Henry V”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:11PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Curious about which topics, people and offerings might achieve hotness in #DCTheater this spring? Here are my prognostications about what’s likely to be trending onstage in the coming mont…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMThursday, January 17, 2013
NEW YORK — Imagine one of the plucky little orphans of “Annie,” all grown up and fixing her sights on a sprawling Delta plantation, and you get an idea of the impression Scarlett Johan…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:13PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Out in the Negev, an Israeli scientist has discovered the dark side of an industrial miracle. A bustling complex of factories that has brought prosperity to the desert is creating ecological…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:53PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
“Taking Care of Our Own” is the name of a financial aid effort for local actors and other artists run by a regional advocacy group, Theatre Washington. But this week, it also characteriz…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:08PMMonday, January 7, 2013
The opening scenes of “Contractions,” Mike Bartlett’s humdinger of a corporate black comedy, will chill to the marrow anyone who’s ever had to fill out a W-2. Emma, a well-groomed wo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMFriday, January 4, 2013
In an art form powered by illusion, dreaming turns out to be the easy part. Marvelous designs are laid out; visionary projects are greenlighted; exciting partnerships announced, to fanfare a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:41AMThursday, December 20, 2012
NEW YORK — On a Wednesday in mid-November, Cheyenne Jackson woke up knowing he was one of the stars of a Broadway show. Twenty-four hours later, he knew he wasn’t. Them’s the breaks i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:07PMMonday, December 17, 2012
Can Washington more successfully cultivate its own gardens of playwrights and composers? It’s not yet the case that this city, with its healthy appetite for theater, routinely looks to its…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:10PMFriday, December 14, 2012
The condition known as laughing oneself silly is, it turns out, no medical myth. Doctors of comediology can observe, nay, can experience the syndrome themselves, right here, right now, thank…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02AMThursday, December 13, 2012
“The cast came to us,” musical-theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh is saying, as his Manhattan production office hums with pre-gala electricity. It’s a few hours until the New York p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PMMonday, December 10, 2012
For childlike wonder, who else working in theater today can meet the enchanting standards of Natsu Onoda Power? Her latest performance piece, “A Trip to the Moon,” ties together her love…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54PMFriday, December 7, 2012
The top 10 productions, trends and events in the full and hectic life of Washington theater in 2012: Woolly Mammoth Theatre. The year’s most ingenious theater piece. Playwright Anne Washb…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PMLove is not merely risky business. It’s a bona fide public menace — or seems so at least, when wielded like a nuclear device by the romantic terrorists of director John Malkovich’s fas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:10PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Like a team of theatrical rescue workers, three seasoned pros do everything in their power to aid Arena Stage’s “Pullman Porter Blues.” But though they provide welcome verve, their con…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
You can’t get Melody Grove out of the bars these days, and nobody seems to mind. In fact, she’s being actively encouraged to hop from pub to pub in city after city, dashing among the tab…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PMMonday, December 3, 2012
At its zaniest moments, “A Killing Game” is like that point at a kid’s birthday blowout when the parents get out the silly string and let the sugar-saturated 7-year-olds run wild. The …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PMThursday, November 29, 2012
To miss Nova Y. Payton singing “(And I Am Telling You) I’m Not Going” would be like skipping Christmas. The gift is delivered midway through Signature Theatre’s sizzling revival of �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:55PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
As socko finishes go, few comedies can match the one William Shakespeare came up with 400-plus years ago for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The mirthfully tragic “Pyramus and Thisbe”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:01PMSunday, November 25, 2012
The literary limbo of the benighted family of “Six Characters in Search of an Author” is capably handled in the revival of the Luigi Pirandello play by Arlington’s WSC Avant Bard — e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMFriday, November 23, 2012
On the stage of a spacious auditorium at the nation’s premier university for the deaf, a worker nails Styrofoam snow to the eaves of a mock-up of a 19th-century London streetscape, as acto…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMThursday, November 22, 2012
NEW YORK — That most sensational of all stage tricks — the ordinary made momentous — is being practiced for your immersive pleasure eight times a week this fall at the Public Theater, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:37PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Evan, the impressionable high school kid played to poker-faced perfection by Brian Miskell in Annie Baker’s terrifically still-watered “The Aliens,” is the shy teenager in all of us, t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMMonday, November 19, 2012
After listening to the luscious renditions of “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live” in Arena Stage’s often tunefully adept if dramatically inert reviva…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:09PMSunday, November 18, 2012
If you’re thinking of ordering the usual, the Bier Baron Tavern isn’t the ideal destination these days. What’s flowing instead in this Dupont Circle establishment is the heady lyricism…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:49PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
It’s Folk Night all this month around the figurative fire at Camp Theater J, and all that’s missing are the s’mores. Enlivened by the tunes of the great troubadour of America’s disen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:07PM 
