Wednesday, 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 10:42AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The challenge facing a reviewer writing about I and You, the two-character drama now at the Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, is how much and how little to say abou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57AMBeaches, the musical receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, does many things well, but it still needs some work before all the pieces can fit together.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57AMTuesday, February 18, 2014
The premise is that these actors�three African-American and three white�want to tell the story of a largely forgotten genocide, but they keep running into problems with cultural appropriatio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:32PMThursday, February 13, 2014
Battles of words can be just as deadly as any other form of warfare. That is the primary message of Seminar, the comedy by Theresa Rebeck now at Round House Theater in Bethesda, Maryland.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:12PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Olney Artistic Director Jason Loewith�himself one of the authors of a much darker work about the business culture, Adding Machine: A Musical�here demonstrates his skill as a director of more…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:24PMThe last time Kathleen Turner appeared at Arena Stage in Washington, she was playing the outspoken journalist Molly Ivins. Now she's back as the indomitable Mother Courage, making her way as…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMThursday, February 6, 2014
Washington's Folger Theatre and director Robert Richmond have brought a new, unexpected perspective to their production of William Shakespeare's Richard III.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
The dynamic Freda Payne is the primary reason to see Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song, the latest biographical musical, at MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia. While Lee Summers' book foll…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:00PMThis 1997 work by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Brian Crawley (book and lyrics) touches on questions of faith, love, truth, and beauty�but does so in a delicate way that, at times, is less than…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:00PMThursday, January 30, 2014
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington and director Keith Baxter have staged a dazzling production of The Importance of Being Earnest, featuring a cast of performers who all understan…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:02PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Signature Theatre led Washington area professional theaters with 20 Helen Hayes Award nominations, followed by 16 for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and 15 for the Shakespeare Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:48PMMonday, January 20, 2014
laywright-performer Daniel Beaty restores Robeson to his rightful, larger-than-life stature in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, a one-person play now in the Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Bang the Drum Slowly, the current production of American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, is achingly sincere but too often dramatically inert.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56PMMonday, January 13, 2014
Director Paata Tsikurishvili has set the comedy of misunderstandings in the 1920s of silent movies, bootleggers, and conspicuous consumption, which allows for some of William Shakespeare's m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:19PMThursday, December 26, 2013
In Joe Calarco's production of the musical at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, Sherri L. Edelen offers up a diamond-like performance as Madame Rose, the ultimate stage mother: by tu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' raucous play now at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, considers what people should do when they make that discovery.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:22PMThe 95-minute show isn't only about him, to be sure: Maurice recounts stories of his parents and brother, and showcases newer practitioners of the art of tap, along with a noteworthy nine-pi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
[Playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo is] back with Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, which sizzles like the earlier play but focuses instead on the dysfunctions of one family in an upscale subur…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:49AMLove in Afghanistan, Charles Randolph-Wright's play receiving its world premiere in the Kogod Cradle at Washington's Arena Stage, is a largely low-key story of two people trying to find comm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Aaron Posner has chosen a new tack for his production at the Folger Theatre in Washington, stressing the parallels between Renaissance Verona and contemporary America. He has succeeded in cr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:30PMMonday, October 21, 2013
"This," the play by Melissa James Gibson now at Round House Theater in Bethesda, Maryland, is an elliptical portrait of five friends trying to cope with life. Gibson's language (specifically…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Director Jason Loewith, also the theater's artistic director, has brought together an accomplished cast and overseen a sumptuous physical production. So why is the play unsatisfying?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMGee's Bend, the current production at MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, is moving and entertaining, but Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's script is less a play than a sociological document depict…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Measure for Measure is famously described as one of William Shakespeare's "problem plays," but its consideration of the tangled interplay among sex, justice, and politics means that it remai…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:40PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Synetic has packed so much of its trademark physicality, striking stage pictures, and never-ending musical score into two and a half hours including intermission (an hour longer than most of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:03PMThe title of Eric Coble's play refers to the sense that time moves faster as a person grows older.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:02PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
... an affectionate production of Simon's first Broadway play (and first success), Come Blow Your Horn.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AMLisa D'Amour's play, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, examines the precarious nature of relationships and the shifting role of the suburbs: at first a haven from crowded, dangerous ci…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:50AMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Obviously, people who are familiar with J.K. Rowling's stories of the boy wizard will get more of the jokes, but the pace is rapid (the show runs about 70 minutes) and the performance pepper…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:09PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
With its current production of Miss Saigon, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, demonstrates that this work does not need elaborate scenic effects to succeed as long as it has leading …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28AM 
