Friday, 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 06:43AMFriday, January 13, 2012
Why is it that a loving relationship is more apt to withstand bombs than the dormant aftermath? Playwright Donald Margulies poses this question in the steadily engrossing “Time Stands Stil…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Renee Calarco is onto something when she suggests in her new play, “The Religion Thing,” that America’s biggest taboo isn’t talking about sex — or even, as plays such as “Clybour…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:49AMFriday, January 6, 2012
The Kennedy Center has had to scrap the centerpiece theater event of its 2011-12 season — a major, reworked revival of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical “Pal Joey” — after its direct…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMIn just 10 short years, Washington’s theaters have undergone a transformation unlike any in the city’s history. Gleaming new palaces of drama have sprung up or been spruced up all over t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
Underlining the challenges it faces in realizing its aspirations to be a national center for research, Arena Stage announced Wednesday that major components of its 2½-year-old American Voic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:36PMMonday, December 26, 2011
NEW YORK — Although the power stayed on all through the topsy-turvy weather patterns of the fall, the city’s theater district has found a key ingredient in the making of plays and musica…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:49PMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Reversing a decision that had enraged Latino playwrights, directors and others, the Shakespeare Theatre Company has taken the unusual step of restoring in mid-run the original names of two c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:00AMFriday, December 16, 2011
“Billy Elliot the Musical” moves — and MOVES. When one of the astonishing young dance machines who rotate in the role of Billy is pirouetting or tapping, executing kickboxing steps or …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:14AMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Whether they are crooning a love ballad to Chipotle’s burritos or asking the essential cosmic questions, such as “How come all the addicts on ‘Intervention’ have better apartments th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:22AMMonday, December 12, 2011
Amy Freed gives zaniness a good name. Her new comedy, “You, Nero,” is a silly-savvy lark assembled out of shards of Roman history, scraps of acting argot and a soupcon of naughty busines…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Of all the Top 10 lists I’ve assembled over the years, compiling this year’s drove me the craziest. That’s how strong 2011 has been for Washington theater — the best, in fact, in my …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:51AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Of all the Top 10 lists I’ve assembled over the years, compiling this year’s drove me the craziest. That’s how strong 2011 has been for Washington theater — the best, in fact, in my …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
No Shakespeare comedy depends on spontaneous romantic combustion as crucially as does “Much Ado About Nothing.” Yes, “The Taming of the Shrew’s” Kate and Petruchio must fall desper…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:07PMAlthough the Kennedy Center’s highly regarded revival of “Follies” closes on Broadway on Jan. 22 after a 4 ½-month run, the production isn’t going into retirement just yet.
L…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:49PMIf Lauren Weedman is an acquired taste, I’ve acquired it. She’s a gust from the satiric jet stream, blown east from Los Angeles for an 18-day stand at Studio Theatre. Imagine the agitate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57AMFriday, December 2, 2011
As direct and warmly intended as a letter from a friend, “A Second Chance” is a heartfelt new chamber musical about a middle-aged New York banker who lost the love of his life and slowly…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:14AMThursday, December 1, 2011
What is that man of mature vintage thinking as he sits in the stark rectangle of light, staring out at us with those wistful, hooded eyes? The miracle of superlative acting is that an audien…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Just when you thought nothing more could be said about the origin of Shakespeare’s plays comes “Equivocation,” Bill Cain’s exhaustive and exhausting philosophical fantasia about auth…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:21AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Oy, it’s been a year. We’re beleaguered. Beaten up. Depressed by the economy, distressed by political dithering, swirled by tornadoes, slammed by hurricanes, shaken by earthquakes. Thing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:49PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
In a drastic move for a major regional theater, Arena Stage is dropping one of the spring plays from its current season, an action prompted by the anticipated cancellation of $500,000 in fed…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:21AMFriday, November 11, 2011
The new plays of Broadway-proven writers find many paths to success. But not until Ken Ludwig pulled up to Sideburn Road had anyone thought one such path might be the stage of a public high …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:43PMThursday, November 10, 2011
NEW YORK — For proof that life’s unfair, consider the case of Hugh Jackman. The guy’s in the 99th percentile of, like, everything. He’s dashing, rugged, rich, well-mannered, famous, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:14PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
“Drama’s vitallest expression is the common day,” poet Emily Dickinson wrote. It’s a sentiment that contemporary German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig takes to heart in his writing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Long before an actor blurted out “Shakespeare!” from the stage of Harman Hall, we fully understood why a Washington theater company that bears the Bard’s name would give us a sweet con…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38PMFriday, November 4, 2011
This promised to be a fascinating weekend at Arena Stage, where 30 leading lights of the American theater world were gathering — playwrights, Broadway producers, leaders of nonprofit compa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:14PMNEW YORK — When the eternally promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz was lured to network television to write the series “Brothers and Sisters,” the signs pointed to another excellent st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:28AMFriday, October 28, 2011
For a young company, Constellation Theatre sure can feel old. Its current offering, a revival of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” is the kind of unremarkable production you’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:35PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Blake Robison, who became producing artistic director of Bethesda’s Round House Theatre in 2005 and has spearheaded a repertory built on literary adaptations for the stage, announced Thurs…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
That bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around.
“Oklahoma!,” the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMNEW YORK — Bill this midsummer card as an Elizabethan throwdown: the Royal Shakespeare Company versus the New York Shakespeare Festival. Virtually within earshot of each other, Britain’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PM 
