Wednesday, 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 09:28AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Director Jeremy Skidmore has brought together four top actors at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, for a pitch-perfect version of this potentially difficult play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:56PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
The current production at Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington closely follows Michael Bennett's original staging and choreography, re-created by Stephen Nachamie, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Director Jack Marshall has reimagined the two-character musical I Do! I Do! for American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, in a way both surprising and natural: broadening its story of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:04PMSaturday, July 20, 2013
The premise behind the title is that the re-election of Barack Obama, along with the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and the improving economy, are all signs that the nation is recov…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44PMMonday, June 17, 2013
American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, has put together an entertaining production of Behrman's 1932 hit Biography, paced smoothly by director Steven Scott Mazzola and anchored wit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Director Patricia McGregor ably navigates the territory among people who sincerely believe they're doing what is best for the people around them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:27AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company primarily concerns the interactions between husbands and wives, director Eric Schaeffer had the inspiration to cast married cou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PMPlaywright Aaron Posner has gone one step further, reinventing Chekhov's classic for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington�with the very Woolly title Stupid Fucking Bird.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
What constitutes cultural appropriation? When does comparing the respective grievances of two minority populations turn into "Oppression Olympics"? These incendiary issues are at the heart o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:10PMA play as whimsical as William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale needs the audience to accept its premises if it's going to work at all. Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company and director R…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:35AMMonday, May 13, 2013
The Keegan Theatre in Washington has been gaining a reputation in recent years for its fine work with musicals, and its joyful production of The Full Monty benefits from strong ensemble work…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Playwright Michael Hollinger took his inspiration from the symbiotic relationship between novelist Henry James and his longtime typist and later biographer, Theodora Bosanquet.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:05PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
If the darker side of the play�the ruminations on loss and mortality�is muted in this reading, the humor is full-bodied and the staging is ingenious.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:46PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
As part of its "Hero/Traitor Repertory," Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company is offering audiences the chance to see a new adaptation of a seldom staged German drama.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Bill Cain, playwright and Jesuit priest, sees the Bible less as a rulebook that believers must follow than as a series of stories describing families and how they cope with life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:14PMSunday, April 14, 2013
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington and director David Muse have succeeded in making this material accessible, anchored by the charismatic title performance of Patrick Page.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09PMThursday, April 11, 2013
ason Robert Brown's painfully intimate story of falling into and out of love benefits from the polished performances of Erin Weaver and James Gardiner and the assured direction of Aaron Posn…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThe last time monologist Mike Daisey visited Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, he shared some uncomfortable truths about the human cost to Chinese workers behind the sleek surface…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, April 7, 2013
In The Mountaintop, receiving its Washington area premiere at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theater, playwright Katori Hall presents the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a flawed human being r…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMDirector Eric Schaeffer's rethinking of the work, now at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, is still highly entertaining if less in-your-face, working with a cast of 16 (the ensemble comprise…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Naomi Jackson's glittering performance as the mercurial Mary Todd Lincoln is what makes Mary T. & Lizzy K., the biographical meditation now at Arena Stage's Kogod Cradle in Washington, worth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:16AMMonday, March 25, 2013
In its effort to bring neglected 20th-century American plays back into the spotlight, American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, sometimes takes a step forward into the bizarre. One ca…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
While the subject matter may seem forbidding�the clash between indigenous Africans and British colonizers in the late 19th century�the theme is very simple: how much of one's heritage can a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:35PMMonday, February 18, 2013
laywright and director Joe Calarco ... returns to Signature�and to his examination of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet�with an intense, in-the-round production in the MAX Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMZimmerman's staging of several myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses has always centered around a pool�water symbolizing a medium for rebirth and change�but, for the first time, Zimmerman has adap…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:14PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, and director Mitchell H�bert have brought together a group of fine individual actors who create lightning when they work off each other as an ensem…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33PMEugene O'Neill is most renowned these days for his epic dramas, but the production of Hughie now at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC, offers an exquisite…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:32PMMonday, February 11, 2013
It's a jolting new direction for Olney, whose musicals have often seemed comfortably tradition-bound, and the first production since the company hired Jason Loewith (co-author of Adding Mach…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46PMSunday, February 10, 2013
The crux of the drama is how much individuals should be expected to do for themselves in tough times, and what the surrounding community can and should do to help them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMTuesday, 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 04:34PM 
