Monday, 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 12:58PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has the gift of making unique situations easily accessible to his audiences.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:19PMThursday, January 1, 2015
Barry Levinson, the movie's director and screenwriter, wrote the book for the musical, while Sheryl Crow (music and lyrics) has crafted a cohesive score with strong, era-appropriate elements…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Director Ben Cunis, who also adapted the story along with his brother Peter, and choreographer Irina Tsikurishvili have created a lush, almost feverish theatrical experience, impressive to s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Round House Theatre's reimagining of The Nutcracker must be considered a major disappointment. Director Joe Calarco has done notable work with musicals in the past, specifically at Signature…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:49AMMonday, November 24, 2014
Director and choreographer Susan Stroman and her authors, Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music), have created a work of great beauty, heart, and ambition inspired by Edg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Charlie Pollock smolders rather than burns in the title role; he has the spirit, but his preaching is less about hellfire, more about comforting people making do in hard times.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:33PMA man, a woman, alone together as the snow piles up outside: the story practically writes itself. The plot becomes really involving, though, as lust gives way to love and both Olivia and Eth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:33PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Because it's also a chilling story about hideously deformed part-animal, part-human creatures, it's a natural for an adaptation by Synetic Theater in Arlington, Virginia, and its company of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:28AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
In honor of its 30th anniversary season, MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, has brought back Three Sistahs for a third production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Was Marie Antoinette the Kim Kardashian of 18th-century France? Playwright David Adjmi finds some similarities between the two celebrities in his dizzyingly anachronistic play, now receiving…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMThe Seven Year Itch is one of those titles that people may know, but most of them aren�t familiar with George Axelrod�s 1952 original play. (They may well know the 1955 film version with Mar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35PMWhile Canadian playwright Morris Panych has sneaked some messages about class inequality and the need to have something of one�s own into his play The Shoplifters, receiving its world premie…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34PMMonday, September 8, 2014
How well can any two people really know each other? The question is eternal, but playwright Amy Herzog gives it a fresh jolt in her play Belleville, now at the Studio Theatre in Washington, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38AMPlaywright Andrew Hinderaker takes on issues of masculinity and physicality in his story about a college football player and the catastrophic injury that changes his life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AMSunday, August 24, 2014
Through the sensitive direction of Matthew Gardiner and the efforts of a strong cast, viewers who once might have seen only small, disconnected dramas and a frustrated protagonist can unders…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMMonday, July 21, 2014
American Century Theater, Brian Childers, and Danny Kaye: together again in An Evening with Danny Kaye, and well worth the wait.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:51PMMonday, June 30, 2014
... its current world premiere�Cloak & Dagger, a flimsy but fun world premiere musical�is like cotton candy: not especially nourishing but an enjoyable indulgence at the time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:58PMSunday, June 15, 2014
Choreographer and creator Liz Lerman and her cast enact dreamlike scenes, intermingled with moments of vivid clarity, until the 80-minute work immerses the audience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
The production of No�l Coward's Private Lives now at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington is delightful: everyone is on the same page and they interact with each other on an almost …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Ordinary Days, the lovely small musical now at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, is about how something as inconsequential as a misplaced piece of paper can change lives�even in imp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:25PMMonday, June 2, 2014
Abby Mann's 2001 play began as a television drama in 1959 and a movie in 1961, and onstage it plays rather choppily as individual scenes bridged by musical cues and shifts in lighting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMMonday, May 12, 2014
... director and adapter Derek Goldman and his four actors ably integrate the dry, literate humor of the original with entertaining stage business.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:57PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
With a knockout cast and staging that never slows for a minute, Arena Stage's glorious production of Smokey Joe's Caf� - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller is a crowd-pleaser of the highest deg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:26PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, has gathered a powerful cast for a strong production that places the action in a near-future London overwhelmed with crime, homelessness, and povert…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:25PMSunday, April 27, 2014
Henry IV, Part 2 currently at Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company brings William Shakespeare's two-part saga to a thoughtful and majestic conclusion. Director Michael Kahn works comfort…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMThe Fiasco Theater of New York City, currently performing at Washington's Folger Theatre, has staged a mildly entertaining version of the play that manages to smooth the rough edges of the p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
The 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, were held by theatreWashington April 21 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AMMonday, April 21, 2014
[Stacy] Keach is magnetic as he draws out all the contradictory sides of Falstaff: charming and exasperating, a self-deceiver who tells lies both for fun and for self-preservation, a drunkar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:34PMSunday, April 6, 2014
The basis of Wright's vision is the centrality of religion to the lives of the three partners. One scene lays out the similarities and differences without hitting the audience over the head:…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:06PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
The American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, has resuscitated Arthur Kopit's outrageous 1962 farce, written as the buttoned-up 1950s began moving tentatively toward becoming the wide…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:42AM 
