196 stories by "Jessica Goldstein"
Before you begin this story, I suggest you turn off your camera, discard your water bottle and silence your cellphone. Patti LuPone has a zero-tolerance policy for distractions at the theate…
In the black-box theater at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Marcus Kyd " whose hair is currently dyed the traffic-light yellow favored by seventh-grade boys circa 2003 " is directing a rehea…
"Holly Down in Heaven," the play by Kara Lee Corthron that is enjoying its world premiere at Forum Theatre, marks Forum's first run with a resident playwright.
"I'm learning how exciting it…
In honor of the Kennedy Center Honors, and also in honor of honor-themed wordplay, we decided to take a closer look at some facts and figures regarding the presitigous arts award. This year'…
In the world premiere of the Theater for Young Audiences' version of "Big""surely you've seen the 1988 movie, in which Tom Hanks plays "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks" on that giant toy pia…
The H Street Playhouse has new digs and a new name to go with them. When the theater opens shop at 2020 Shannon Pl. in March, it will be under a new moniker: Anacostia Playhouse.
Owner Adel…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has chosen F. Murray Abraham as this year's recipient of the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre. The award will be presented at the Harman Center…
According to Gwydion ÂSuilebhan, we have an obsession.
"We" is the entire planet. The obsession is with superheroes.
Suilebhan, a D.C.-based playwright, theater blogger and resident playw…
Two Leesburg communities' petition challenging the Loudoun County School Board's rezoning plan, which altered boundaries so that more than 600 students were assigned to the new Frederick Dou…
Suri's Burn Book, the satirical blog written by Allie Hagan, has been chronicling the lives of celebrity spawn from the perspective of Suri Cruise since July, 2011. As imagined by Hagan, you…
On July 11, 2011, Allie Hagan, a policy consultant at the Penn Hill Group in Washington, was indulging in her off-hours obsession: celebrity children.
She'd occasionally say "snappy little …
Readers, it's been a pretty eventful week for the ladies. In front page, earth-shattering golf news, the Augusta National Golf Club has finally admitted not one but two women to its previous…
After 19 years, Marsha Mason is selling the farm.
The actress had racked up four best actress Oscar nods for her work in "Cinderella Liberty," "The Goodbye Girl," "Only When I Laugh" and "Ch…
Eric Schaeffer, Signature Theatre's artistic director, gave loose guidelines to the performers in the upcoming "Summer Hummer," a benefit for Taking Care of Our Own, TheatreWashington's emer…
I am asking director Grady Weatherford what "A Maze" is about. One would think this is a fairly simple question.
"It can be a difficult question," says Weatherford, which is a sign of how s…
Theater, once considered an activity one needed to be at least in grade school to appreciate, has become an increasingly popular form of recreation for the 5-and-under set. Imagination Stage…
Noor Siddiqui doesn't want to go to college yet.
She seems the very model of a college-bound student. The Clifton resident graduated from Robinson Secondary School in June with a stellar gra…
It's been a week of accidental scoops in theaterland.
First, Mayor Vincent C. Gray let it slip that the H Street Playhouse would be relocating to Anacostia " days before owner Adele Robey ha…
The H Street Playhouse is relocating to 2020 Shannon Place SE in Anacostia.
In the face of escalating rent, H Street founder Adele Robey was forced out of the neighborhood she (and her husb…
The H Street Playhouse is relocating from its eponymous location in Northeast D.C. to Anacostia.
Though owner Adele Robey hadn't planned on announcing the move until Monday afternoon, Mayo…
People of the world who were married just over 20 years ago, check your wedding tapes.
Slightly younger people of the world who had their bar or bat mitzvahs in the 1990s, unearth that VHS f…
It is Friday at 5 p.m., happy hour by definition, but it doesn't feel that way. It's gloomy and overcast, as if the sky were under the direction of Christopher Nolan.
That is, it is gloomy …
Watching Homegrown Theatre's "The Freshman 15/Life in Transition" is like watching a bunch of reality TV confessionals, over and over and over again, for 75 minutes.
The Capital Fringe Fest…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2012-13 season will no longer include "Man and Superman," the George Bernard Shaw play that was to be directed by Aaron Posner. In its place will be Eugene O'Ne…
The show opened with an "oww!"
You know the one. This is "Michael Jackson, The Immortal World Tour" by Cirque du Soleil. A recording of Jackson's voice filled the room, and he was emitting t…
