Doug Wilder, director of "Noises Off" at 1st Stage, breaks down the farce like so: Act One: "It's this meta idea. You're watching a rehearsal happen. And these actors are a bit broad .â€�…
As with many meet-cutes, actor-director Judith Ivey and Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth's stories of how they came to work together do not exactly line up. Ivey, the two-time Tony Award…
Liz Gossens, costume designer for Pinky Swear Productions' "Bondage," had a dilemma. She needed to cover the two actors " one male, one female " in head-to-toe bondage gear. "We really don't…
Actress Kathleen Chalfant, 68, didn't meet Lynn Redgrave, actress, playwright and original performer of the autobiographical work "Shakespeare for my Father," until they were both adults. Re…
Edwin Aparicio and Aleksey Kulikov had been together for more than a dozen years when in July they finally could be married. Although the two say they've stayed together longer than many of …
David Gonzalez is a divorced child of divorce. His world premiere one-man show "Man of the House (Or: How I Tracked Down My Dad, the Spy)" is his way of wrestling with that, and how he grew …
There is a Washington that wakes up early. That stretches the tightness from sleep out of its shoulders, slides on sneakers and stumbles out into the still-crisp morning air. There is a Wash…
Woolly Mammoth's "Appropriate" is anything but when you're thinking about material that's Âkosher for kids. The comic drama by native Washingtonian Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of those …
If you've never been to Baltimore Knife and Sword, you'll probably never find it. There's no sign outside the small blue building a ways down a winding stretch of Marriottsville Road next do…
How much does it cost to override a government shutdown? If you're Ford's Theatre, $25,000. That's the amount of emergency funding that trustee Ronald O. Perelman donated to the Ford's Theat…
Jason Loewith, Olney Theatre Center artistic director, has a plan. It is "either a brilliant idea or a disaster in the making," he said. "We'll see!" The game plan: Instead of a traditional …
Lee Mikeska Gardner and David Bryan Jackson knew a lot about each other before joining " or, more accurately, becoming " the cast of "The Two-Character Play" at Spooky Action Theater. They w…
"New Plays from Spain," a collaboration among Spain Arts & Culture, Studio Theatre, No Rules Theatre Company and Theater Alliance, will bring the newly translated work of Spanish playwri…
It's hard out there for a hero. Anti-heroes have it easy. Their sinful existence satisfies our basest desires. We love them for being the kind of reckless, selfish people we would despise in…
No one plays Matthew Shepard in "The Laramie Project." The piece of documentary theater was inspired by Shepard's murder: The gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student was brutally beat…
Gregory McGurder, vice president for public programs at National Geographic, asked Jim Lehrer, former "PBS NewsHour" anchor turned novelist and playwright, if he'd be interested in writing a…
The National Museum for Women in the Arts has raised more than $25Â million in the past six years, reaching its goal of doubling a $25Â million endowment by the museum's 25th anniversary…
When Megan Anderson first read the script for Amy Herzog's "After the Revolution," she thought her character, Emma, would be relatively blameless. "Emma is the protagonist," Anderson said. "…
Chances are, given the scale of Signature Theatre's production of "Miss Saigon," the cast and crew could have anticipated, or worried about, any number of things malfunctioning: The rusted m…
Judith Viorst has a folder. It's "about this thick," she says, holding her thumb and her forefinger about two inches apart. In it are articles she has seen that quote the most famous phrase …
At this year's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Gala, the headliner will be Pink Martini, a self-proclaimed "little orchestra" from Portland, Ore., that's been together for nearly two decades. P…
Ask Destin Daniel Cretton about his first day of work at a short-term home for at-risk teenagers, and the first thing he does is take a deep breath. Then he says: "Oh, man." He begins: "My f…
The Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival is 12 years old. Organizers are not really thinking about a dozen years of history, though; the showcase of new works from 40-plus local theaters is…
Here we are again, all talking about "Saturday Night Live" like it's 1999. The New York Times posted a story Thursday on how terrifying it is to audition for Lorne Michaels, which is totally…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will host "From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: A Town Hall Meeting on Black Bodies and American Racism" at 7 p.m. Friday. Might not seem like typical theater t…