Wednesday, October 26, 2011
NEW 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 05:35PMAs shattered Uncle Vanya, Richard Roxburgh isn’t merely a shell of a man. He’s a shell of a shell, a quaking, sobbing wreck. Racked ever more violently by the realization that the profes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe Kennedy Center showed taste and maturity in (finally) bestowing one of its Honors on the sublime Broadway songbird, Barbara Cook. The singer-actress—83 and still chirping with amazing …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMNEW YORK — Reaffirming that an out-of-town workout is still a show’s optimal fitness program, the Kennedy Center revival of “Follies,” seen in Washington last spring, has landed on B…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMDiana Son’s “Stop Kiss” plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a bru…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe other night, while at a play
A woman in a crafty way,
Came up to me and with some cheek
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SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PM“White folks can’t stand unhappy Negroes, so laugh,” the veteran black actress instructs the young black actor in “Trouble in Mind,” Alice Childress’s wise and extraordinarily wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFeeling invisible is the one torment no theater person can endure. So it has long driven inhabitants of Washington’s stage world batty that, when outsiders are told the city has a lively p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMStudio Theatre embarks on an exciting new path with “Lungs,” a bracingly dramatic walk through the thicket of couples communication that proves an auspicious start to the company’s amb…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMNEW YORK — One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up — on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMThe versatile Chicago and Washington actress E. Faye Butler recounted a call she received to audition in New York for a British stage version of “Gone With the Wind.” “Faye, there’s …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMFor a fleeting instant, you grasp the potential in the new, extensively rewritten version of playwright Karen Zacarías’s comedy of modern literary manners, “The Book Club Play.” The m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMUsing minimal theatrics and the testimony of real soldiers, “ReEntry” creates a stage document about an aspect of military life that few of us back home ever fully understand: the trials…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMThe saddest moment on a Washington stage this year also happens to be one of the most exhilarating. It occurs in Act 2 of “A Bright New Boise” — playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s unspari…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMAmid the Babel of voices in Zuccotti Park, Greg McFadden wanted to listen to just one: a voice that might suit his own perfectly. “Let’s take a look around,” the actor declared, survey…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMWhat makes Iago seethe? The eternal mystery of his mortal loathing of Othello isn’t totally cracked in Folger Theatre’s impressive, compulsively watchable staging of the tragedy. But in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMMonday, July 18, 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 …
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The opening Thursday night of Jez Butterworth’s remarkable “Jerusalem” solidifies what looks to be the most competitive Tony race for best play in years.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:51AMMonday, March 28, 2011
Measured against his greatest dramas, "Cymbeline" counts as an iffy achievement for Shakespeare, what with subplots recycled from weightier efforts and characters lacking in lightning-bolt i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMMonday, February 7, 2011
NEW YORK - If you're going to spend $65 million and not end up with the best musical of all time, I suppose there's a perverse distinction in being one of the worst.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00PMFriday, February 4, 2011
The thunderous aftershocks of "Black Watch" are not merely those set off by the realistic sounds of mortars and rockets exploding in the convulsed soil of Iraq. No, the jolts delivered in th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AMFriday, January 21, 2011
Two mothers fighting over one son seems reliable arithmetic for dramatic fireworks. When one of the women is Palestinian and the other Israeli, the results are mathematically devastating.
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