Tuesday, 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 06:21PMMonday, December 14, 2015
When in the spring of 2002 it began the delightful series that has become its signature — movement-based interpretations of Shakespeare, performed without dialogue — Synetic Theater we…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:25PMFriday, December 11, 2015
NEW YORK — As an antidote to the hateful rhetoric spewing from the presidential campaign, you should take in a Broadway musical.Not to escape the viciousness — to better understand its c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PMAnd then there was the time Natascia Diaz danced for Jerome Robbins.She was still a kid, only a few years out of Carnegie Mellon’s drama program. But she had already toured Europe in a pro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:50AMThursday, December 10, 2015
NEW YORK — The ecstatic noise emanating from West 45th Street may just have enough seismic force to shake foundations all the way to West 145th. It’s the strength, collective and indi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07PMSunday, December 6, 2015
NEW YORK — The new musical version of “School of Rock” is now in session, and all of the required elements are in attendance — almost. High-octane exuberance? Here! Decent songs? Pr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:30PMFriday, December 4, 2015
NEW YORK — Nobody reaches a boiling point with more gleefully righteous ferocity than Al Pacino, a facility he — and we — can still count on, in his 75th year on the planet. As Micke…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:21AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
NEW YORK — Rita Moreno is scooting from one broadcast studio to another inside Rockefeller Center, spewing sound bites in English and opinions in Spanish and hawking her new CD as if her c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AMThursday, November 26, 2015
About his Broadway aspirations, Steve Martin is unequivocal. “We actually set out to create something traditional, that had a strong melody and a strong story,” he said. “We are trying…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13PMThursday, November 19, 2015
“Pericles” begins as a so-so play that — presto! — turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre’s gently melodic and ever more persuasive p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:25PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Move over, “Shear Madness.” After a mind-boggling 28 years as the money-minting chief tenant of a coveted performance space in the Kennedy Center — a uniquely advantageous perch in the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:21AMSpencer Liff puts bodies in motion under some remarkably high-stress conditions, most prominently for the popular television competition show, “So You Think You Can Dance” — an assign…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:51AMThursday, November 12, 2015
NEW YORK — And just like that, Ivo van Hove cements his place irrefutably among the most revolutionary theater makers of our time.Because in its elemental economy, its flashes of uncanny�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:34PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
To tackle the direction of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, David Muse, the artistic head of Studio Theatre, had an illuminating thought: Why not ask a five-time Tony Award-winning lighting de…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:14PMLONDON — “Why is everyone in the KGB so stupid?” Irina, one of the jailed journalists asks, in Belarus Free Theatre’s intense and highly watchable “Time of Women.”Pausing from t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:03AMMonday, November 9, 2015
LONDON—The crowds lining up nightly outside the Noel Coward Theatre on St. Martin’s Lane for last-minute cancellations attest to the remarkable journey of “Photograph 51,” Anna Zie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:42AMThursday, November 5, 2015
NEW YORK—We all know exactly what elixir we’ve come for. And thankfully, the appropriate doses of delight are dispensed from the stage of Broadway’s Marquis Theatre all through “On …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:57PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
It doesn’t get much more hopeful than this. New theater company, new play, new playwright. A work that challenges the conscience, in a part of town that is changing rapidly, on a topic cry…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:34PMNEW YORK—And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of “King C…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:00AMSunday, November 1, 2015
NEW YORK—And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of “King C…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:39PMThursday, October 29, 2015
NEW YORK—The Roundabout Theatre Company unveiled two new productions this week. One was powerful. The other starred Keira Knightley.We’ll get shortly to the exquisitely observed “The H…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:44PMMonday, October 26, 2015
“Girlstar” is really something. What that something is — well, your guess is as good as mine.Musical thriller? Musical spoof? Romantic tweener bait? Unfortunate mishmash?Maybe, maybe, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:11PMFriday, October 23, 2015
In the aftermath of his shocking dismissal in December after 18 years as artistic director of Theater J, Ari Roth doggedly embarked on plans for the next chapter of his career: a new Washing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:40AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
As impressionable teenagers, BeBe Winans and his sister CeCe traveled a remarkable God-focused path, from a gospel-infused Pentecostal home in Detroit to the stage of a Christian television …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMFriday, October 16, 2015
NEW YORK — When Belgian stage director Ivo van Hove approached French actress Juliette Binoche about doing the Greeks, he told her he had a hankering for “Medea.”Binoche, not so much.�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
With a stunning lyricism, South African director Yael Farber applies her formidable imaginative talents to a well-traveled biblical story and propels it on a revelatory new path. It’s the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Food fight! The oven gloves come off and the flour flies in “Cake Off,” the new musical at Signature Theatre that is only sporadically tasty. A man cooks his way into the finals of a nat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PMThursday, October 8, 2015
If certain musical phrases fail to raise any tingles on the back of your neck — such as “stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time” or “it would be so fine to see your face at …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:55PMFriday, October 2, 2015
NEW YORK —Their text messages to each other that day conveyed the excitement known so well by actors scrambling for their next job.“I was called back!” Andrew Long typed out to Nancy R…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AMThursday, October 1, 2015
To boost the producing of plays written by women, it really does take a village.The village in this case encompasses the city of Washington, D.C. and its surrounding suburbs. A new study r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:27AMSunday, September 27, 2015
NEW YORK — Their hands fluttering up to form what look like little arches, the cast members of Deaf West Theatre’s “Spring Awakening” offer an initial glimpse of how American Sign …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:40PM 
