"Equivocation," the current production in the Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, examines the interplay between truth and fiction, specifically the interrelationship of histor…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:24PMAs of now, "A Second Chance," the two-person musical receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, shows promise, but it has a way to go as a fully staged work.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:44AMStage adaptations of Charles Dickens' story of Ebenezer Scrooge are an unavoidable part of the Christmas season. What Feininger has done is to retell the story in a lighthearted format, usin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PMDirector-choreographer Mark Waldrop has done a solidly professional, if not especially exciting, job with a capable cast and orchestra.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMThe Folger Theatre has staged a fairly traditional version of "Othello" while, across the river in Arlington, Virginia, Synetic Theater has remounted its honored "silent Shakespeare" adaptat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22AMUnder Sanchez's sensitive direction, the actors ably embody the contradictory feelings of people thrown into an environment they can't control, thrilled to be alive but guilty that their fri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMWhat sort of person actively prays for God to bring on the apocalypse, rapturing believers to heaven while preparing to destroy the earth? It might be that mild-mannered fellow working at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:24PMThrough its American Voices New Play Institute, Washington's Arena Stage provides support to playwrights during three-year residencies. Judging from the sparkling production of the first wor…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:05PMAt Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, director John Going has staged a solid - if occasionally stolid - production of the thriller.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMThis production, well directed by Stephen Rayne, is powerful enough that its good points more than compensate for its weaknesses.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMAlan Bennett's play "The Habit of Art," now at Washington's Studio Theatre, imagines a late-in-life meeting between two 20th-century intellectual titans, poet W.H. Auden (Ted van Griethuysen…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:05PME. Patrick Johnson created "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South" as a book of interviews with African-American gay men. Now he has brought it to life as a solo performance which, in Signat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PMMetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, has found a fine vehicle for actors in John Patrick Shanley's play "Savage in Limbo," and director Lise Bruneau�a notable performer herself�has brought to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38AMo many things change as years and eras pass, but surprisingly, some things don't seem so different after all. Playwright Alice Childress wrote "Trouble in Mind" in 1955, during an era of Jim…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:08PMAuthor Ray Bradbury has been quoted as saying of his writing: "I don't try to predict the future. I try to prevent it." The jolting multimedia production of "Fahrenheit 451," Bradbury's own …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:49PMAfter successful runs in London, on Broadway and internationally, the musical "Fela!" is launching its American tour at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall in Washington.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:48PMClifford Odets' 1950 play examines the lives of a once-promising actor derailed by alcoholism, a hotshot director determined to give the actor a chance to start over, and the actor's support…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:22PMSignature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, adds to its list of firsts by presenting two new musicals in rotating repertory to launch its 22nd season.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50PMDirector Michael Kahn and his seven-member cast strike all the appropriate notes in this tale of love and money, adapted from a 1708 work by the French playwright Jean-Fran�ois Regnard.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:48PMWashington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company received such a strong audience response to its 2010 production of Clybourne Park that it brought back the entire eight-member cast, and James Kro…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:21PMThe best news about the remounted production is that, if anything, the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is even more exuberant and moving than it was before.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMIn American Century Theater's production of Visit to a Small Planet, Bruce Alan Rauscher gives a sweet and antic performance as probably the most charming, likable extraterrestrial visitor a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:02PMDirector Ethan McSweeny's fascinating production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company succeeds in being very funny while making the au…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07AMPlaywright Michael Hollinger trained as a classical musician before shifting his artistic focus to the stage, but his 2006 play Opus—now at Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMDavid Cale performs monologues, but his newest work, The History of Kisses, allows the solo performer (also playwright and director) to slip into and out of several different characters, and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMArena Stage in Washington has a crowd-pleaser in its current premiere production of A Time to Kill, Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel. The story of racial injusti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55PMFor Signature's production of Side by Side by Sondheim in its larger theater space, the MAX, director-choreographer Matthew Gardiner has created a dynamic ensemble out of three sparkling per…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:26PMThe adaptation of Cyrano receiving its world premiere production at Washington's Folger Theatre pares down Edmond Rostand's original to two and a half brisk hours and a cast of nine. While m…
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