Sunday, 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 10:40PMThursday, September 24, 2015
If you don’t believe in life after death, then you aren’t acquainted with the fate of “Glory Days.”The modest musical, born in early 2008 at Signature Theatre, about four high school…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:45PMThere’s another place for you in Arlington to hone your new musical.Signature Theatre revealed details on Thursday of its new SigWorks: Musical Theater Lab, a project that begins next …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:40PMAs word of mouth steadily grew in early August and tickets started to fly out of Arena Stage’s box office, Stacey Mindich knew that the musical she helped nurture, “Dear Evan Hansen,” …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:34PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
American Theatre magazine surveys the country annually for the most frequently produced plays at the nation’s regional theaters. Lo and behold, two of the top 10 originated at Woolly Mammo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:02PMTuesday, September 15, 2015
The mystifying success of Lucy Kirkwood’s “Chimerica” grows only more puzzling with its American premiere at Studio Theatre. After three-hours-plus of lumbering exposition, you leave t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:39PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Warning: That dish placed before you that goes by the name of Caesar, Waldorf, Chopped, Cobb or Kale may be hazardous to your psyche.Yes, you’ll learn courtesy of “Women Laughing Alone W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:09PMFriday, September 11, 2015
Given the raw data, you would think that every day in the theater would be a women’s festival.Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:30PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
NEW YORK — Re-electrifying a show in its dying days, ballet sensation Misty Copeland brings considerable charisma and elegant physicality to her Broadway debut as a gamine beauty queen in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57PMThursday, August 13, 2015
“Dear Evan Hansen,” the new musical that opened to excellent reviews earlier this month in its world premiere run at Arena Stage, is moving to New York in spring 2016.Second Stage Theatr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:59PMThursday, August 6, 2015
NEW YORK — Thomas Jefferson was honored with a majestic memorial, George Washington by the name of our capital city. But lovers of show tunes know that among the Founding Fathers, Alexande…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:29PMMonday, August 3, 2015
If your upcoming vacation plans allow you any flexibility, then by any means possible add “Dear Evan Hansen” to your itinerary. The heart-piercingly lovely new musical, receiving its wor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
NEW YORK — David Strathairn can’t get the Georgetown professor out of his system.It is a purely professional attraction, however, one that over the past year has propelled the Oscar-nomi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:38PMFriday, July 10, 2015
NEW YORK — Is this the one?Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49PMThursday, July 9, 2015
News reaches us that Patti LuPone is mad as hell and isn’t taking it anymore. Wednesday night, during a performance of the off-Broadway play she’s appearing in, “Show for Days,” she …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:10PMThursday, July 2, 2015
NEW YORK—The decades melted away at City Center Wednesday night, as the astonishingly ageless Ellen Greene returned in all her glory to the role she made famous—the doomed, cutey-pie-voi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:57PMMonday, June 22, 2015
So “Bombshell” really may be a thing.The musical-within-a-musical on NBC’s defunct “Smash” is now being developed by the network as a full-fledged stage musical. This may eventuall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:18PMThe playwrights who banded together in 2013 to form The Welders built an unusual mandate into their company’s story: term limits. Not by setting an expiration date for the overall concep…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:30PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Steve Martin is a man of many media. In movies, he’s played a jerk and an amigo and the father of a bride. On TV, he’s been a wild and crazy guy. For museum exhibitions, he’s lent piec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
“Gigi” faced tough odds from the start. Although the new stage version of the 1958 Oscar-winning movie musical boasted a popular young star in Vanessa Hudgens, the show itself had a s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:43PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
NEW YORK—“Bombshell” lives!Well, kind of.Less a musical-for-television than a musical-made-up-for-television, “Bombshell” existed as 20-odd numbers scattered across 32 episode…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:29PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone deserved bett…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:30PMNEW YORK—Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:10PMNEW YORK — “Fun Home,” an emotionally searing musical about a gay woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family, walked away with Sunday night’s most coveted award, be…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Don’t think of summer as theater’s cooling-off period. Nowadays there’s too much heat on too many stages to consider it the slow season. For more evidence that July and August aren’t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMMonday, June 1, 2015
Well, kids, sorry to tell you, but the future here in the homeland doesn’t look like much fun. Floods, civil wars, invasions by foreign powers, stonings, beheadings. And, oh, yeah, zombies…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:00PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Jake, you were robbed!I know, I know, this doesn’t rise to the level of war crime. It’s simply another of those entertainment-world injustices, perpetrated like clockwork at awards-show …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMThursday, May 28, 2015
NEW YORK — In the beginning was the word, and that word (inevitably) was posted on Twitter. When God saw that the tweet was good, it begat other tweets, which begat a flock on Twitter numb…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Almost any time a mouth opens and notes spill out, the newly slimmed down Chess is a gateway to musical-theater nirvana.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM 
