Wednesday, 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 06:50PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
At the cozy end of a summer day’s lark — a long day’s lark at that — a contented dad sits in his easy chair, across from a beaming mom, and reflects on the many blessings that have b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:03AMMonday, March 19, 2012
A few short weeks ago, in a Brooklyn restaurant, I sat down to a long lunch with Mike Daisey, to talk about the enormous success of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” and his plan…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:05PMSunday, March 18, 2012
Was ever a charmer of fabric and wire more aptly named than Basil Twist? This master twister of stuff you find in hobby drawers and hardware stores into winsome shapes and figures seems to h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:47PMFriday, March 16, 2012
At a pivotal moment, “Gypsies” — a play from Hungary visiting as an offshoot of the Kennedy Center’s music-centered “Budapest, Prague and Vienna” festival — turns into Central…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:45PMThursday, March 15, 2012
NEW YORK — One must pay attention to a man even as inattentive as the loutishly bewildered Willy Loman, whom Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays so effectively in director Mike Nichols’s ste…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35PMEven those who can only stumble through “The Star-Spangled Banner” are bound to find plenty of tuneful enjoyment in Ford’s Theatre’s dandy new revival of “1776,” a musical that d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35PMWell, well, hello, oldie!
This is the time of year when the region’s subscription theaters lay down their cards, revealing what they’ve got in their hands for the new season, which begin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:41PMFriday, March 9, 2012
Oh, no, no. Not Eugene O’Neill. Isn’t he the tortured one who wrote all those long, tortured plays about all those tortured people from tortured families that resembled his own tortured …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
When the blows start flying in Studio Theatre’s “Sucker Punch,” it’s the audience that sees stars. In this case, that means the powerhouse visages of Emmanuel Brown and, even more el…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38AMFriday, March 2, 2012
NEW YORK—The eagerly buzzed-about stage revival of “Carrie” is still not ready for prom time.
A storied Broadway flop based on the Stephen King novel of the same title, the original sh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Not until the odd couple in knit caps and bewildered looks wander wide-eyed into “The Language Archive” does a sense of attenuation escape Julia Cho’s play, about the ramifications of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:05PMOne afternoon, as I waited for the end of an intermission in one of Washington’s swankiest theaters, my daydreaming was interrupted by an usher.
“Excuse me sir,” she said politely. “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:05PMWhile Shakespeare held forth on the seven ages of man, Carmen C. Wong zeroes in on the growth stages of womankind in “Into the Dollhouse,” her interactive contemplation of what gets filt…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:58AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
It takes a tender actress to make a tough pig, and in the unsettling “Civilization (All You Can Eat),” Sarah Marshall lowers herself to the challenge. She’s Big Hog, who starts Jason G…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:52PMMaybe, if you ask really politely, Natsu Onoda Power will allow you to get up out of your seat at Studio Theatre, give her hardworking cast a good, swift shove into the wings and leave you a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:59AMSunday, February 19, 2012
“Genesis Reboot” asks the metaphysical question: What if God wanted another shot at starting the human race? Because, you know, the first go-round had its bad moments. This time, we retu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:52PMThursday, February 16, 2012
NEW YORK — Here are two things I learned from “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It”: William Shatner thinks George Takei can’t stand him. And Captain Kirk talks to his dog in the s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45PMIt’s a nasty drop from the warm and fuzzy Darling family of the popular Broadway musical version of “Peter Pan” to the suffering brood of dramatist Michael Lluberes’s new adaptation,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Mike Daisey says that though he’s never spoken officially to the company whose labor practices he lambastes in his hit one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” he hears …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
This may be the first time you’re hearing of Paul Downs Colaizzo, but on the evidence of his crackling new play, “Really Really,” the name bears committing to memory. A sexually charge…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:28AMFriday, February 10, 2012
When Natsu Onoda Power was a young girl (and not yet a creative Power in her own right) she had the idea of traveling to Tokyo from her tiny, isolated rice-farming village and surprising her…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PMFriday, February 3, 2012
The recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors won’t be announced until later this summer or early fall — indeed, the deliberations for who will be named are still ongoing. With t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
With a buoyant air and a bouquet of ripe performances, Folger Theatre further expands Washington’s classical borders with “The Gaming Table,” a sendup of 18th-century social probity by…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:42PMMonday, January 30, 2012
The Kogod Cradle, Arena Stage’s architecturally high-toned third stage, may not have been the ideal host for “Elephant Room,” a tacky bit of absurdist illusioneering, informed by the a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:43PMSunday, January 29, 2012
For all its highfalutin discourse — on abstract expressionism, Dionysus vs. Apollo, the pernicious advance of pop art — the most engrossing moment of Arena Stage’s immensely enjoyable …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:28PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Even though two high-profile projects dropped out of Washington’s spring theater season — the Kennedy Center’s reworking of Rodgers and Hart’s“Pal Joey” and Arena Stage’s tryou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:50PMThursday, January 26, 2012
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The Kennedy Center showed taste and maturity in (finally) bestowing one of its Honors on the sublime Broadway song…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PMRobert Falls was, to put it bluntly, tired of hearing himself talk. Decades in the rehearsal room had, in his mind, calcified his directorial style. The process worked well for him, of cours…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
So, was the comely Selena Featherstone possessed by a pygmy capuchin monkey named Iago?
Not the sort of question one wrestles with on a typical night out. But then, “The Gallerist” striv…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMFriday, January 20, 2012
The party starts early at the vivacious and endearing revival of “La Cage aux Folles.” An impossibly leggy actor in drag is waiting at the lip of the stage as the audience files into the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:43AM 
