Tuesday, May 3, 2022
John Proctor Is the Villain, receiving its world premiere in the Mead Theater at Washington's Studio Theatre, takes a sharp and entertaining look at modern high school students and how they�…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Without Debra Monk, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, James Lapine's play with music receiving its world premiere production at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, would simply be an amiable…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Salomé and the Constellation Theatre Company's production of Avenue Q each received seven Helen Hayes Awards at the 32nd annual ceremony, May…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's crackling Tony Award-winning play now at Arena Stage in Washington, lays out the high stakes that faced Lyndon Baines Johnson (Jack Willis) in the first year …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:46AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Director Gary Griffin has adapted his 2014 Chicago production for the current run in the MAX Theatre at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, and it's polished if, in large part, emotion…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:11AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
The creative team has moved the action from 19th-century Seville, Spain, to Havana in 1958, shortly before Fidel Castro's supporters came to power against the dictator Fulgencio Batista. In …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Suzan-Lori Parks' epic work Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3), at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, fascinates on both the intellectual and emotional levels. With i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:00AMSaturday, December 19, 2015
It's professionally done, with a top-notch cast and musicians, but it's so guileless as to seem precious at times.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth) is a dazzling success ... Neither the controversy nor the success surrounding the production is completely unexpected…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Addiction, and how people deal with it, has become a common subject for dramatic treatment, but Bad Dog, Jennifer Hoppe-House's play now receiving a "rolling world premiere" production at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AMCreative talents Adam Gwon, Julia Jordan join Sheri Wilner in adapting her original play. The setting of the 95-minute musical, with no intermission, is the 1996 "Millberry Cake Off," where …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
... a sweet, amiable and not terribly deep consideration of the role of art in life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:02PMFriday, July 31, 2015
The entire cast is operating at the top of its skills, but Platt's impassioned performance serves as the core and anchor of the production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49PMMonday, June 1, 2015
Robert O'Hara's comic-tragic-romantic-political mashup, is the kind of engrossing, utterly out-there play that has made the reputation of Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Under t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing excellence in Washington professional theater, entered a new era at the 31st annual ceremony, April 6 at the historic Lincoln Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37AMMonday, April 6, 2015
... songs by Stephen Sondheim from throughout his solo career, performed by six outstanding singing actors and supported by a sumptuous 16-piece orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch. By ag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:46PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
... a musical about what human life means when time is running out, staged with wild inspiration by director Matthew Gardiner and performed to the hilt by its four talented actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:03PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Studio Theatre in Washington is presenting the world premiere of Laugh, Beth Henley's zany comedy with a sincere heart.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06PMSunday, February 1, 2015
The Kennedy Center's production of Gigi is lovely to look at and charming to listen to, but the show never achieves the transcendence that one would wish for with this material.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:52AMMonday, January 26, 2015
Washington playwright Ken Ludwig admires both classic farce and classic literature. His antic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Baskerville: A Sherlock Ho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:58PM 
