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 05:58PMIf musicals are your thing, you're in the right place
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMKarl Miller is seriously creepy. And we can all be grateful for that.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMEvery knight into the pool! For the baptismal production in its new home in Crystal City, Synetic Theater has left the water running. It's ankle-deep on the stage throughout the 90 heart-jo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMIt may have been the most mortifying night of Amy Ryan's life. She was on Broadway, playing the role of Sonya opposite Derek Jacobi and Laura Linney in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMNEW YORK -- Just in time for the populist uprising of 2010, Broadway is host to a rock musical about the populist uprising of 1828. In the vibrantly subversive "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWorld premiere on church burnings a compelling sell
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMYour eye will never get weary in a visit to "Women on the Verge," but you're still likely to come out of the experience feeling shortchanged.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAndrea Marcovicci new show, “Blue Champagne,” at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, is a deeply researched, thoroughly entertaining history of the torch song.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has on its hands a 1,000-pound canary. It warbles like a dream, but boy, does it take up a lot of space.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMFew things in life sound better than " South Pacific ." And few "South Pacifics" have sounded as good as the deeply pleasurable revival bivouacked in the Kennedy Center Opera House for the h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThere is, it seems, no holding June Schreiner back. During a rehearsal for "Oklahoma!" - the hit Arena Stage revival in which the 16-year-old is making such a remarkable impression - Schrein…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWhether they featured a man alone at a desk, or a chorus dancing in formation, the best theater of 2010 in Washington shared a gratifying characteristic: the dazzle factor. For the sparkle o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWhen Florence Lacey's Norma Desmond steps uncertainly into the spotlight on the Hollywood sound stage in "Sunset Boulevard" and sings the first notes of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," Andrew…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMArab literature, Israelis say, is not exactly rife with acknowledgments of the horror of the Holocaust. So when Israeli playwright and journalist Boaz Gaon was introduced to the work of the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAngular and soft-spoken, wearing a dark suit and the inscrutable grin of someone who seems to know something you don't, David Muse rises at a dinner in a sprawling, art-filled house on the e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMMary Zimmerman's often beguiling "The Arabian Nights" is an evening of unfoldings: first of elegant Persian carpets, then of lyrical Eastern tales. Over the course of 21/2 hours, the Chicago…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMMeasured 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 05:58PMMarking its emergence as a center for asking big questions about the future of American theater, Arena Stage brought together more than 100 writers, directors and artistic managers from acro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe 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 05:58PMCapitalizing on the many fans of classical drama who also seem to love show tunes, the Shakespeare Theatre Company will inaugurate in its 25th-anniversary season a musical-in-concert series …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMIt's a hot-button debate that the nation's leading advocate for dance and theater, sculpture and opera has been spoiling to ignite for months: Does the country have more outlets for the arts…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMIN NEW YORK Alook of terror flashes in the eyes of Tate Donovan in the stomach-knotting second act of David Lindsay-Abaire's scintillating new comedy-drama, "Good People." It's the gaze of a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWhen the Kennedy Center puts its estimable weight behind a big theater project, the results can have inordinate impact. Consider the importance to culture in this country of staging the late…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe multitalented director Aaron Posner conjures with exceptional intelligence and sensitivity the religious and generational tempests of " The Chosen ," Chaim Potok's 1967 coming-of-age nov…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe Bob Marley of “Marley,” the new bio-musical forged from the life and artistry of the Jamaican reggae legend, is a tough guy to get a handle on. Stoic, unforthcoming, introspective, h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:55PMIt’s remarkable how bleak and yet so spirit-lifting “Cabaret” can be, all at once. Boasting John Kander and Fred Ebb’s richest score and an ingenious hall-of-mirrors storytelling str…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33PMA river of anguish spills out of the memory-haunted half-sisters of “The Blood Quilt,” playwright Katori Hall’s character-rich though unevenly engaging family drama, receiving its worl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00AMAudience walkouts during a performance are an occupational hazard for stage actors. But the one that occurred some days ago in the opening moments of “The Originalist” struck Edward Gero…
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