Feels like only yesterday there was literally nothing to report on except the way Waity Katie was keeping us all waiting. Yet finally, Prince George Alexander Louis was held aloft before the…
Picture, if you will, $95 million dollars. Visualize that money however you like. Maybe you're envisioning the bills in neat, orderly stacks, with Walter White hovering above his latest haul…
heliumprov: he·li·um·prahv(noun): when you suck in helium and proceed to perform improvised comedy, colloquially known as "improv." Just some vocabulary you might want to know as y…
As part of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, Leonardo Da Vinci's "Codex on the Flight of Birds" will make its debut appearance on American soil at the Smithsonian's National …
When Rorschach Theatre decided to produce "Neverwhere," adapted from Neil Gaiman's novel and filled with such stage directions as "THE GREAT BEAST OF LONDON enters. . . . It is…
It's just before the end of Act 1 of "The Book of Mormon," and Christopher John O'Neill is singing about Jesus. O'Neill knows the words. He knows he knows the words. The song is "Man Up." Hi…
Taffety Punk company member Marcus Kyd's explanation for how Bootleg Shakespeare began is very simple: "It was initially a dare." The way Bootleg Shakespeare works, for the uninitiated, is a…
At the beginning of "The To Do List," the camera lingers on 1990s objects as the 2 Live Crew hit "Me So Horny" throbs in the background. Names of the cast and crew pop up on scrunchies, a TI…
Please look upon this easel for the most important announcement of all of our lifetimes: Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, she of the second-shiniest hair in the Western Hemisphere (Tami …
Rep Stage, the professional Equity theater in residence at Howard Community College, is filling the vacant artistic director position with two people: Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch. B…
There's a new player here in Theaterland. Introducing: our very own local playwrights collective. It's called the Welders, named for Cherrie Moraga's poem ("I am the welder. / I am taking th…
It takes Mary Bridget Davies about an hour to physically become Janis Joplin. As for the mental and vocal preparation, "it happens throughout the day with me," says Davies, 34, sitting in he…
Topher Paynewrote the first draft of "Perfect Arrangement" in 2008. The play, a comedy set in the 1950s about two gay couples who marry each other's partners so as to hide in plain sight as …
Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, the co-writers and co-directors of "Baby Universe" at Studio Theatre, are wearing what look like grey onesies and gas masks. "The face is really interesti…
Can we talk about Wednesday for a second? What a day for Washington. SCOTUS struck down a key element of the Defense of Marriage Act, which was the main talk of the town. A bear " a baby o…
I'd like to make an announcement of great social and political import: "One Night With Janis Joplin," starring Mary Bridget Davies and now enjoying its second run at Arena Stage, is headed t…
It's that time of year again: Everybody wants to get out of town. Urban dwellers are ready to swap the sweltering city for the seashore. Rusty the Red Panda broke out of his cage; Edward Sno…
The last time "Angel Street" was produced at Olney Theatre Center, it was 1950. Olney was 12 years old, and the film "Gaslight," which was inspired by the play and starred Ingrid Bergman, ha…
Taylor Swift is not a feminist. But Clara Beyer is, and she loves Taylor Swift music, and sometimes she wishes Swift would change her twangy tune and be a little more progressive. On June 11…
Nancy Jo Sales is the journalist whose Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" told the story of the Bling Ring crew that inspired Sofia Coppola's new film. From October 2008 thro…
"To be honest with you, a year ago at this time, I was not sure that there was going to be a Molotov Theatre much longer," said Alex Zavistovich. His co-founders, with whom he started Moloto…
When "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage swung by "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart knew exactly where to start his interview about the HBO mega-hit. "People are so obsessed with this program…
MetroStage producing artistic director Carolyn Griffin says the theater's 2013-14 season is "mission driven." It's not about picking a theme and jamming the square pegs of plays into the rou…
Big news over at Adventure Theatre MTC: "Three Little Birds," the musical that producing artistic director Michael Bobbitt adapted from Cedella Marley and Gerald Hausman's picture book of th…
About a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, playwright Dan Dietz was living in Austin and working as a guest artist at Florida State University. He drove back and forth " not exactly th…