Some good news and bad news for the Kennedy Center this week. Good news: "Book of Mormon," the uber-successful Broadway musical from the brains that brought you South Park, is making its D.C…
Ford's Theatre artistic director Paul Tetreault didn't go into season planning with, well, a plan. But when he was about midway through the process, he said, "I would step back [and] say all…
It's Oscar night! The night you've all been waiting for! Wait, what's that you say? You've been busy thinking about other things and only just remembered to set your TiVo this morning? Fret …
After 16 years as artistic director of WSC Avant Bard, Christopher Henley is stepping down, swapping that 24/7 life for what is probably the 48/7 life of a parent of twin infants. Taking ove…
Alex Mills has something to say. The actor, coming off 41 / 2 years of performing in wordless Synetic productions, has landed his first leading and speaking role, in Signature Theatre's "Sha…
With her stuffed-puppy purse in hand, Quvenzhane Wallis, the 9-year-old star of Oscar nominated "Beasts of the Southern Wild," was the star of an event with the award-winning Paso Nuevo Yout…
Congratulations, Grammy performers! None of you were actively bad. Unfortunately, none you really Adele'd this one either. In honor of these many meh-to-above-average contributions to the ni…
Its Grammys time! Get your game faces on, people, and read on for all the information you need to be as prepared as a Girl Scout for Sunday night's show. View Photo Gallery "Kanye …
We don't always say it when we say it. We say the f-word. We drop f-bombs. We say effing, freaking, flipping. The conservative among us say fudge or firetruck; the nerdier among us say frac…
When we last checked in with Joshua Morgan and Brian Sutow, co-artistic directors of No Rules Theatre Company, they had just signed on to be a company in residence at Signature Theatre in Ar…
Michelle Williams is so sweet and talented, I hate to say she's a liar " but I'm 100 percent sure she lied to me. I don't want to have to put it like that. She rallied for an interview even …
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Arena Stage, remembers exactly how she felt when she first heard news of the shootings in Newtown, Conn.: "It was as if the unthinkable had happened." H…
What happened to the teen stars of "The Buddy Deane Show" after the program that made them famous went off the air? Check out the latest from the Deaners and get the full behind the scenes s…
If you were a teenager in Baltimore in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you watched "The Buddy Deane Show." When the final bell rang you sprinted home from school, saddle shoes smacking the s…
There are a couple of things you should know about Robert O'Hara. The newsworthy thing is that he's one of 14 people who each received a $185,000 playwright residency grant from the Andrew W…
The Folger Theatre production of "Henry V" is intended to be very modern, in every way but one. Even though the hot thing to do with Shakespeare as of late is to uproot his tales from their…
The Twitter haters are losing the war. You know who they are, or, perhaps, who you are. Those who dismiss the snappy social network as the Platonic Non-Ideal of oversharing undercooked ideas…
Begin at the middle. That's how Homeric epics work. There's no throat clearing, no preamble, no prologue. The poet invokes the muses, and then, BAM, there you are: in medias res, in the midd…
As Ella Fitzgerald sings in what I'm just going to go ahead and declare the best cover of a holiday standard: "What are you doing New Year's Eve?" Unlike the song asks, however, it is not to…
Last night, we said farewell to our favorite (and not-so-favorite) scheming, scandalous Upper East Siders and the kids from Dumbo who love and cyberstalk them. The Gossip Girl series finale …
To begin, the most obvious question: Why do the Pajama Men wear pajamas? "The Pajama Men: In the Middle of No One" is halfway through its run at Woolly Mammoth. It's a mash-up of, among oth…
The National Gallery of Art kicked off its Year of Italian Culture by unveiling Michelangelo's David-Apollo on Wednesday. The statue is on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Flore…
After less than seven months in the job, Olney Theatre Center's artistic director Martin Platt is leaving. Alan Wade, a member of the theater's board of directors, is serving as interim arti…
Effective immediately, Martin Platt will no longer be serving as the artistic director of Olney Theatre Center. Alan Wade, a member of the Olney board of directors, is serving as interim art…
Instead of taking typical famous person transit, Jay-Z opted to ride the subway to one of his recent cocnerts at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. What happens when such men walk among mortals? Th…