Monday, 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 02:18PMThursday, August 23, 2012
When Anglo American actor Michael Benz was 12 and making his way on British television — playing, among other roles, Little Lord Fauntleroy for the BBC — he was asked to present a bouque…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:19PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Departing from custom, the new producing artistic director of Round House Theatre has decided to scrap two of the plays announced for the 2012-13 season by his predecessor and replace them w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:13PMThursday, August 9, 2012
NEW YORK — The soaring arboretum assembled in Central Park for the Public Theater’s open-air “Into the Woods” conforms grandly to the specs for a fairy-tale musical’s magical prese…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55PMSunday, July 29, 2012
Even before the crowds sporting their official admission buttons began receding from the Capital Fringe Festival, which ended Sunday as one of the most artistically successful in the event�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28PMMonday, July 23, 2012
One of the enduring payoffs of a fringe festival is its unusually broad access to talent that is as yet a well-kept secret. That gratifying attribute is on display in a number of productions…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:09PM“Stopgap,” playwright Danielle Mohlman’s promising new social comedy, is a kind of updating of “The Heidi Chronicles,” the tale of a flinty young woman who opts for the concretenes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMThursday, July 19, 2012
In the reboot of his notorious monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey sounds an alarm that now has a hollow ring.
Stripped of its most powerful ingredient — …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:11PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Employing words of both consolation and provocation, experimental playwright Young Jean Lee explores the mysteries of spiritual devotion in “Church,” her engrossing one-act play being ac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:43PMIn this age of merry mashups, few fusions have offered quite as much potential for delectable irony on a stage as the idea of the three singing Bronte sisters.
Actually, there was a brother,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
American history textbooks simply do not do our seventh president justice. Sure, in old paintings, he’s got the thick, wavy hair thing going on, and the craggy features do set off a rugged…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:30PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Plying you with lemonade and a chance to exercise your God-given right to stand up and be counted, the civic-minded guardians of “Beertown” draw you cannily into their appealing experime…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:39PMSunday, July 15, 2012
Embarking on a Fringe experience in the company of the lusty womenfolk of “Cabaret XXX: Love The One You’re With” is like starting your day with two triple espressos and a rack full of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMFriday, July 13, 2012
As with so many events in a city obsessed with polls and plebiscites, the dramatic thinkers and tinkerers at a young theater company called Dog & Pony DC decided that the impact of their…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMThursday, July 12, 2012
From the memory-jogging opening moment (ba-da-da-dum snap-snap!) of the aggressively mediocre musical version of “The Addams Family,” audiences know they are in the embrace of that class…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:01PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
We’re looking for a few good tweets.
As the seventh annual Capital Fringe Festival gets underway Thursday — a theater, music and dance extravaganza of more than 130 shows that runs throu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMMonday, July 9, 2012
Ann Washburn showed us in Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s divine, “Simpsons”-inspired “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” that the Homer whom playwrights turn to for inspiration doesn’t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Members of the theatergoing jury: I come before you today to speak in favor of men in tights.
It is the fashion in these meddling times — now perhaps more than ever — to put the doublets…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:56PMFriday, June 22, 2012
The show at Georgetown University was a first for me, and maybe, according to Waleed Shamil, a first for this country. In a black box space in the bowels of the school’s Davis Performing A…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PMHow fitting that just about the time the Kennedy Center was disclosing plans for a revival of “Side Show” — a 1997 musical about the midway — Broadway was announcing a real one. Yess…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Shakespeare may have had a low opinion of regicide, but that was nothing compared with how he felt about pomposity. If murderers of royalty are summarily dispatched, there are slower (if fun…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:38PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Anyone would immediately understand why Erin Weaver so badly wanted the lead in “Xanadu,” a musical requiring her to sing, roller-skate, be in peak physical condition and, of course, spe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35AMMonday, June 18, 2012
In the final 40 minutes of the flawless Arena Stage revival of “The Normal Heart,” one harrowing meltdown seems to incite another — a cascade of anguish as a terrifyingly unknowable ki…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:42AMFriday, June 15, 2012
You know that overused saying: “You’ve never seen anything quite like it!”? I went to “The Animals and Children Took to the Streets,” a 70-minute performance piece at Studio Theatr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMThursday, June 14, 2012
How “Broadway” can you get? Not much more, certainly, than is conjured by the songs of those melodic ambassadors from the world of show-tune brass, sultriness and pizazz, John Kander and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
“Side Show” was one of those artistic ventures that, adored by musical theater enthusiasts but shunned by the less ardent of Broadway’s fans, failed to catch on.
Now, it’s getting a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMMonday, June 11, 2012
NEW YORK —“Anne, they’re ready for you,” someone called out to Anne S. Kohn, the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s associate director of administration. In her evening gown, she glance…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:12PMNEW YORK — The Kennedy Center fell just short of achieving Tony glory Sunday night as its acclaimed production of “Follies,” considered by some the best musical revival of the Broadway…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
In Synetic Theater’s new war drama “Home of the Soldier,” the bodies pile up, but unfortunately, so do the cliches. This 90-minute dance-play, about a young man who enlists in the mili…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AMThursday, June 7, 2012
NEW YORK — Sunday night, we will finally get the answer to a tense theater season cliffhanger: Will the Kennedy Center win its first Tony Award in 15 years?
We already know that Washington…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:48PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Round House Theatre, one of the region’s popular mid-size theater companies and an arts anchor in Montgomery County, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ryan Rilette as its producing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:19PM 
