Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Director Serge Seiden has ably orchestrated Guirgis' story of five people on the edge, trying to make their way through addiction, lack of trust, a tenuous economy, and additional everyday c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:34PMMetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, continues its string of polished music-based shows with the world premiere of Ladies Swing the Blues, which pays tribute to the work of the visionary alto…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:33PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Wilder's self-contained New England town stands in for the entire human community�as director Stephen Rayne stresses in his gentle production now at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC�and many…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
In the current production at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, director Robert Richmond and a hard-working cast of 13 actors create a visceral and hypnotic experience for the audience�ev…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:41PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
The Show-Off, the current production of American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, is a comedy whose title character is very difficult to like.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09PMSunday, December 16, 2012
The performance has nothing as traditional as a plot, although it has recurring themes: the lack of communication between fathers and sons; time travel; interaction with space aliens; and lo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57PMMonday, December 10, 2012
This show is a knockout that, in the compact MAX Theatre, feels like a Broadway production staged in a living room.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31PMThe legend of Robin Hood�that noble outlaw who pursued justice for the poor and less fortunate and battled the abuses of an uncaring wealthy class�would seem to be a perfect subject for a co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:30PMFriday, November 30, 2012
Director Ethan McSweeny uses a decrepit theater as the setting for his scintillating production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company, with the twist that…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56PMWith the help of four galvanizing lead actors and a powerful ensemble of musicians, Pullman Porter Blues brings to life a largely forgotten milestone in African-American history: the role of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:55PMMonday, November 19, 2012
You for Me for You, the current production at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, is often cryptic and never really comes together, despite a few sharply focused moments
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:28PMDirector Molly Smith has brought a vibrant and colorful production of My Fair Ladyto the Fichandler Stage at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She honors the legend of the classic musical from …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:28PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Director Aaron Posner has done a lot of noteworthy work for the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, but his visionary production of The Conference of the Birds moves his work in a new and unex…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:40PMThursday, October 25, 2012
There aren't many Commanders-in-Chief who fit the mold of rock star, but the SpeakEasy Stage Company's Boston premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson makes a very strong case that our seven…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Playwright James Still brings the viewer into the home of James Beard (1903-1985), a pioneer in American cooking and host of the first cooking show on television.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Dying City is a less than fully satisfying theatrical experience: it's an appetizer rather than a meal.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Creator, author, and director Randy Johnson worked with Joplin's surviving family to craft this tribute to a musical innovator and trailblazer who, four decades after her death, is still an …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15AMMonday, October 1, 2012
"Fly," the tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II now at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, demonstrates how to stage an involving historical drama without being pedantic or preachy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:11AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 play The Government Inspector is both a slashing satire of hypocrisy and social pretension and�at least as performed by the skilled comic actors in the production now at…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PMMonday, September 17, 2012
This verse drama by poet Archibald MacLeish received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1959, but is little known today.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:37PMThursday, September 13, 2012
Kristoffer Diaz's play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, manages to ground the excesses of pro wrestling in reality while also viewing life through that wildly theatrical prism.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:48PMRajiv Joseph's play is a hallucinatory look at life in a war zone, larded with absurdity and crowded with ghostly presences�and it's both funny and chilling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:47PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
Staged on a colorful plexiglass set designed by Riccardo Hernandez (who also designed The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), with stunning costumes and wigs by Gabriel Berry, Adjmi's highly enterta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMMonday, September 10, 2012
The songwriter and performer Jacques Brel died in 1978, but Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, the theatrical showcase of his songs, will probably live forever…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:30AMThursday, August 30, 2012
Arena Stage in Washington welcomes Molly back in the person of another gutsy woman, Kathleen Turner, in the crackling one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, is launching its "Season of Reinvention" with a rollicking, racy production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:13PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Washington area actor Bobby Smith has already received nine nominations for the Helen Hayes Award. One hopes that his hilarious performance in Olney Theatre Center's production of Little Sho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PMSunday, July 22, 2012
Now Daisey returns to Woolly with a retooled version of his monologue in which he addresses the issues of truthfulness that have arisen in the past two years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
George C. Wolfe's exemplary production, currently being hosted by Arena Stage in its Kreeger Theater, originated last season on Broadway, winning the 2011 Tony Award for best revival of a pl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01AMMonday, June 11, 2012
hristopher Durang may have written Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You in 1979, but director Joe Banno's current production at American Century Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, shows…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:38PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Synetic Theater in Arlington, Virginia, makes a bold move away from its adaptations of classic works with Home of the Soldier, a visceral and fascinating exploration of modern warfare and th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39PM 
