Tuesday, 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 07:07PMMonday, November 12, 2012
Peeling the lid off a nation drowning in its own delusions is no small challenge. For confirmation, witness the difficulties playwright Mia Chung and her director Yury Urnov encounter in the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:14PMThursday, November 8, 2012
NEW YORK — When the feisty little girl with the curly red hair fills her lungs to belt out the tune about the sun coming out tomorrow, the tingle one experiences starts at the bottom of th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:31PMThursday, October 25, 2012
Of all the triumphs “War Horse” catalogues — of Allied forces in World War I; of a boy’s fierce devotion; of an animal’s fighting spirit — the most exhilarating is one of enginee…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:18PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Playwright Bryony Lavery offers an audience plenty to ponder in “Dirt,” her antiseptic new stage contemplation of death and dying and other stuff. And the results are indeed plenty ponde…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:43PMThursday, October 18, 2012
Spend some time in the White House, and you’ll know the feeling of hope slipping away. Fortunately for supporters of the incumbent president, the White House in question on this occasion i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:09PMWell, hello Nancy! Ford’s Theatre and Signature Theatre, co-producers of a revival next March of the Jerry Herman hit musical from the ’60s, “Hello, Dolly!”, say they have found thei…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:01PMHe looks as if he emerged from the laboratory of a veterinary Dr. Frankenstein. With haunches that appear to have been stripped from the guts of an amusement park ride, and a thatched torso …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:52PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
“Our Class,” an obsessively detailed account of 10 intertwined Polish lives, from 1926 to 2003, presents audiences with a wrenching course of human events and an atrocity whose barbarity…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PMMonday, October 15, 2012
In this year of endless divining of the will of the people, theatergoers might find especially noteworthy the contrarian outlook of playwright Henrik Ibsen, who no doubt would have considere…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:32PMFriday, October 12, 2012
No theater in the world may be accomplishing so much through the efforts of so few. With a full-time staff that would barely fill a shift at a medium-size Starbucks, Druid Theatre Company, b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:47PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
If all goes as planned, a high-profile Washington stage director will be making her Broadway debut this spring, shepherding a new play by a dramatist who will also be having his freshman exp…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:35PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Does Craig, the rising star who invites himself into his sister-in-law’s flat one evening in the winningly understated “Dying City,” realize the depths of his insensitivity? Embodied b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24PMMonday, October 8, 2012
If “One Night With Janis Joplin” glosses over some of our more sordid memories of a rock-and-roll legend silenced at 27 by a heroin overdose, the Arena Stage tribute show that has oldste…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMFriday, October 5, 2012
NEW YORK--Watching “Grace” all those years ago in the spartan confines of the Warehouse on 7th St. NW, one might never have imagined Broadway in its future. Don’t get me wrong:dramatis…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
The hardest working man in Washington doesn’t sit at a government desk on Capitol Hill or field grounders on the waterfront or whip up elegant embassy dinners on Massachusetts Avenue. No, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad mir that director Michael Kahn conjures in his Russian-screwball treatment of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Government Inspector.” Calling to disorder a gaggle of Sh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:17PMMonday, September 24, 2012
After Fair Isle sweaters, single malt whisky and Ewan McGregor, “Black Watch” may be Scotland’s most important export. The captivating play about a storied Scottish regiment’s deplo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:57PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
NEW YORK—How Washington theater lights Joy Zinoman and Holly Twyford came to make their New York debuts with the breathlessly spare playlets of Samuel Beckett is a story that has to be …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:53PMSunday, September 16, 2012
For his wholly original black comedy, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” playwright Rajiv Joseph comes up with what seems a fittingly disquieting metaphor for the anguishing entanglement…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:17PMFriday, September 14, 2012
In most places, Mead means paper. In Washington, it stands for art.
And, more often than not, art of a theatrical kind. Blessed with an immense fortune, Gilbert Mead and his brainy, unassumi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:06PMWhat they do for love.
No other rationale adequately explains the uncommon devotion of actors who work regularly on Washington’s stages. It’s not filthy lucre that keeps them coming back…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:21AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Painstakingly faithful and ravishingly composed, the new stage version of Ralph Ellison’s masterwork, “Invisible Man,” is a wholly respectable and at times even radiantly evocative por…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Those gleaming behemoths who execute front bumps and pile drives and elbow drops aren’t merely pumped-up slabs of meat on a tape loop of fixed matches. As playwright Kristoffer Diaz avers …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PMMonday, September 10, 2012
With all the reverent portent that attaches to productions of “Hamlet,” an audience can lose sight of one keen attribute: It’s a ripping good yarn. That sometime-neglected trait is com…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:28PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Did you happen to notice how, in his masterly mix of reciting and extemporizing, global statesman and Yale Law School graduate Bill Clinton repeatedly inserted the language of back-porch aut…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:27PMA few noteworthy “firsts” make Guinness World Records. More often, they don’t draw the attention of record keepers. They’re the firsts that escape detection on hype meters — milder…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:06PMSunday, September 2, 2012
Look! Up on the stage! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
No, it’s just a guy in a leather cape with adequacy issues.
In “Reals,” playwright Gwydion Suilebhan takes a classic comic-book th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:49PMThursday, August 30, 2012
Was it a coincidence that, on the podium in Tampa, the ice blue in Paul Ryan’s tie and in the abstract background projection brought out a similar tone in his eyes? If so, it was a marvelo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:31PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
For just a few minutes of sizzling shimmy-and-shake, the naughty ol’ Chicken Ranch way out in the wilds of Gilbert, Tex., manages to get up the proper head of steam. This temperature rise …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMMonday, August 27, 2012
The eve of a national political convention is as opportune a moment as any to summon the rabble-rousing ghost of Molly Ivins, the unreconstructed Texas liberal who loved nothing more than to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:18PM 
