Wednesday, 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 08:19PMRound House Theatre, one of the region’s popular mid-sized theater companies and an arts anchor in Montgomery County, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ryan Rilette as its new prod…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
As business plans go, Scott’s will surely never make the case study annals of Wharton. Hanging out a shingle for a company that writes suicide notes for those seeking grammatical assistanc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:39PMAs inexhaustibly original as the animated series that inspired it, the kookily brilliant “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” is the sort of once-in-a-blue-moon show that stays stuck in you…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMFriday, June 1, 2012
If there was a road map for breakout theatrical success, “The Normal Heart” misplaced its copy. Larry Kramer’s much-admired, alarm-bell-ringing 1985 drama about the spread of AIDS thro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PMTired of the same old summer routine: the sweltering afternoon by the pool, the mosquito armada at the picnic, the endless crawl to the beach? How about taking a detour from the seasonal hum…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:22AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Who in their right mind wouldn’t haunt the library stacks if Kate Baldwin were assigned to the checkout desk? Teamed with Burke Moses in Arena Stage’s endearingly melodic revival of “T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
In red satin jacket, polished fingernails and preening self-regard, Tom Carman flutters convincingly onto the Artisphere stage as Crow, a renegade singer come to dethrone an aging rock-and-r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:56PMEmpty calories don’t seem such a misguided nutritional choice when they’re served to you by a force like Erin Weaver, the vitamin-enriched musical star of Signature Theatre’s “Xanadu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:57AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Click, click, click. That’s the precision with which practically every jubilant act of irreverence registers in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s deliriously happy-making version of Carlo Go…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:32PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Presumption of funniness is not exactly a capital offense. But it’s a performer’s crime nevertheless, a rookie sort of miscue that helps to sink Folger Theatre’s ill-conceived spaghett…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
In another sign of Washington’s growing influence as a theater town, the Kennedy Center’s highly regarded revival of “Follies” garnered an impressive eight Tony Award nominations Tue…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:25PMThe Kennedy Center’s production of “Follies” earned an impressive eight Tony nods, including one for best musical revival, in the nominations unveiled Tuesday morning in New York.
The …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMMonday, April 30, 2012
The last thing you’d ever want, in the forlornly sterile restaurant where the events of Studio Theatre’s “The Big Meal” transpire, is for the waitress actually to arrive with your or…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:47PMFriday, April 27, 2012
Out in the Shenandoah Valley, they make Shakespeare the old-fashioned way. And by old-fashioned, I don’t mean stodgy or rigid or by trilling the lines as if every word were an opportunity …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:19PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
The characters of Matthew Lopez’s engrossing if soberly conventional Civil War drama, “The Whipping Man,” gather around a makeshift seder table in the ruins of a stately Richmond homes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:06PMSaturday, April 21, 2012
NEW YORK — The move to Broadway proves to be an entirely felicitous visibility upgrade for “Clybourne Park,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about race and class that had a virtuall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMThursday, April 19, 2012
NEW YORK — Trusting your gut is an essential guideline in the reviewing business. So if your gut aches as much as mine did all through the rhapsodically silly shenanigans of “One Man, T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:01PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
What a piece of work is this Telemachus, the Hamlet-like brooder of playwright Jason Gray Platt’s modern family tragedy, “Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysseus.” Spoiled and sullen, h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:25PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Like most young dramatists, Jason Gray Platt is a struggling one who holds down a day job to nourish his hopes of watching his work come alive at night. Having obtained a degree from Columbi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
The more the star of “Arias With a Twist” exposes his outrageousness, the more he manages to class up the joint.
The joint in question is Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where Joey Arias straps …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:55AMMonday, April 9, 2012
As if Washington’s lively bar scene were not already packed with drama, it is soon going to be the setting for an actual one.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company, staging a play for the first …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:45PMSunday, April 8, 2012
Nationals Park isn’t the only spot on the Washington waterfront that gives you a taste of the pros these days. Just around the point at Arena Stage, the player to watch is Helen Carey, who…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43PMFriday, April 6, 2012
NEW YORK—Ricky Martin does a pretty good job of playing Ricky Martin throughout the plodding pageantry of “Evita,” the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that opened in lavish reviv…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
About two hours into Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 3-hour, 45-minute production of “Strange Interlude,” the tragic condition of Eugene O’Neill’s troubled, meddlesome heroine, Nina …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:21PMMonday, April 2, 2012
Dudgeon achieves a sexy new high in the scenery-quaking workouts of Synetic Theater’s adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew.” The bare-midriffed tantrums of the ageless Irina Tsikuris…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14PMSaturday, March 31, 2012
It’s that gusty time of year again, when the skies open up over Broadway and out of the clouds come the April showers of new productions, all making landfall just under the Tony Awards dea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:22AMFriday, March 30, 2012
BALTIMORE — For an artist from another land, Kwame Kwei-Armah is sure making himself comfortable here quickly.
Just a few short months after arriving from London and taking over as artisti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:15PMMonday, March 26, 2012
BALTIMORE — The Wolf in Grandmother’s bed doesn’t seem quite so big and bad anymore. No, like other malicious aspects of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fractured fairy-tale musi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24PMThursday, March 22, 2012
When a new musical is engaged in the complicated process of trying to find its voice, an audience has to be willing to listen to some misplaced notes, to hear it speak and sing in a sometime…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
The apologetic phone call from Mike Daisey was a painful one, says Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s artistic director, Howard Shalwitz. It came the day before the shattering news was made public, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:50PM 
