Friday, March 11, 2016
Although he has always been fond of this country’s drama, Ivo van Hove — a European vying for the mantle of America’s hottest stage director — never felt any affinity for one of our …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:36AMThursday, March 10, 2016
NEW YORK -- It isn’t only war and weather that leave devastation in their wakes. The aftermath of intimacy, too, can be a brutal, obliterating ordeal, especially if -- as David Harrower’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:45PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
NEW YORK -- The year is 1979, and a porn-stachioed sleaze named Tony (Roger Bart) is packing his rat trap of a floating casino with enough comedy material to fill a Zucker brothers movie o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
The high point of director Ron Daniels’s enrichingly nuanced “Othello” is one of the tragic hero’s lowest. Jonno Roberts’s coldly efficient Iago — a Shakespearean psychopath if t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:39PMThursday, February 25, 2016
NEW YORK -- He talks a pretty good game, does Erie Smith, in Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie.” As luck would have it, so does the actor who portrays him in the finely-etched revival of the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:57PMWednesday, February 24, 2016
“Road Show” has logged a lot of miles on a long, bumpy journey to Shirlington and the cozy confines of Signature Theatre. Who knew that to smooth out the ride, we’ve been waiting all t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:20PMSunday, February 21, 2016
NEW YORK -- So that’s what he meant.Back in 2008, when he accepted his first best-actor Tony Award, for the Broadway revival of “Boeing-Boeing,” Mark Rylance distinguished himself w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43PMFriday, February 19, 2016
NEW YORK — While writing “The Humans” — his best play yet — Stephen Karam was striving to be so precise about the space his characters inhabited that he wanted to share it with the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:22AMThursday, February 18, 2016
NEW YORK -- The challenges they face are so commonplace you could be eavesdropping on Thanksgiving dinner at your cousins': A daughter with a college degree working odd restaurant jobs; a m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:48PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Edward Gero will forever savor the first words Antonin Scalia ever spoke to him. “I’m not coming to see the play,” the justice declared that afternoon in the late fall of 2014, as G…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:14PMMonday, February 15, 2016
In what may portend a revitalization of links between the Kennedy Center and major British theater companies, the institution on the Potomac will host a short stay this summer of a productio…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:01PMCongas and mambos are the dynamic devices by which Moises Kaufman’s new Cuban-spiced adaptation of “Carmen” puts its best feet forward. And yet, although this atmospheric version of th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:33PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
When soprano Lauren Michelle, in the guise of the hapless, pregnant Irina, begins the opening verse of “Trouble Man,” the otherwise stentorian rhythms of “Lost in the Stars” suddenly…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:26PMFriday, February 5, 2016
In the second of the three blazingly original playlets that make up Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3),” a slave serving as aide to his master in th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54AMThursday, February 4, 2016
“Drama’s vitallest expression is the common day / That arise and set about us,” wrote the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson — words that would suit as a preamble to many of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Never say never.I thought I was completely over and done with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”Having seen it dozens of times, indoors and outdoors, in productions influenced by the Renaiss…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:32PMMonday, February 1, 2016
When the required lump is raised in your throat as Jenna Sokolowski’s Laura hands Thomas Keegan’s Gentleman Caller a shiny crystal memento of her awakening, you know that the emotional g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:28PMFriday, January 29, 2016
“Immigrant!” Anita sneers, playfully but dismissively, at her lover, Bernardo, in the run-up to “West Side Story’s” glorious Act 1 number, “America.” The time is the mid-1950s,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:19AMThursday, January 28, 2016
A moment arrives in the harrowing and absorbing “I Shall Not Hate” that is so unbearably sad you may want to hide your eyes. As this monodrama by Izzeldin Abuelaish and Shay Pitovsky is …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMSunday, January 24, 2016
For insight into why blue-collar America is so riled up, fed up and downright distraught in 2016, “Sweat” makes for — if nothing more novel — a useful and colorful bases-covering res…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Stephen Adly Guirgis won the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year for “Between Riverside and Crazy,” a wise, wry portrait of an embittered ex-New York cop whose entire reason for being is …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:10PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
In a deal that rockets Signature Theatre into a whole new producing orbit, the Arlington company will team up this fall with the Walt Disney Co. to present a world-premiere musical version o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:56PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
At the start of “The Critic,” a self-regarding theater reviewer — is there any other kind? — scans the morning papers and disgustedly tosses them all away. They’re filled, it seems…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:16PMMonday, January 11, 2016
NEW YORK — Right up to the end, David Bowie was exploring new universes. In this case, musical theater was his destination. Just 36 days before his death, in fact, a musical featuring Bow…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Even in a year with a streamlined theatergoing schedule — owing to a book-writing leave — a reviewer could find enough work of real merit to fill out a best-of list. So here, in my sligh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
The perfect Tony. A Maria of pure enchantment. So, yes, it’s truly love at first sight in director Matthew Gardiner’s riveting new “West Side Story” — and not just for that star-cr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:35PMSunday, December 20, 2015
NEW YORK — That director Bartlett Sher should be considered a master of the Golden Age musical is reaffirmed with his latest handiwork, the deeply affecting revival of “Fiddler on the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:32PMBefore we get to the multifarious delights of “Matilda,” the musical making a holiday splash at the Kennedy Center Opera House, I have to utter a couple of words about the Opera House it…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:08PMThursday, December 17, 2015
“Pretty” is a word that comes to mind all through an encounter with “Bright Star,” the, well, very pretty new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Everything about the show is …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:34PM“Pretty” is a word that comes to mind all through an encounter with “Bright Star,” the, well, very pretty new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Everything about the show is …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:17PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
WILMINGTON, DEL. — A moment of silence, please, for Older Boogie.The character who served as narrator in last winter’s Signature Theatre world premiere of “Diner,” the musical, is no…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PM 
