First things first: it was a big night for "Fun Home," the daring musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel. The play based on the memoir of family life and growing up gay took home th…
As far as infomercials go, this evening's Tony telecast was pretty painless. The goal was crystal clear, as always: Showcase the musicals! Even shows barely (or not) nominated " "Gigi,…
Even with Kristin Chenoweth popping out from under a giant hoop skirt worn by co-host Alan Cumming, the first hour of the Tony Awards has shaped up to be one of the least wince-worthy in mem…
Our first thought while watching the 2015 Tony Awards? We didn't tune in to see Alan Cumming's knees. Cummings' short trousers weren't a great look on the red carpet, where Sting (whose m…
"Newsies" flopped at the multiplex in 1992, so nobody could have guessed that the live- action Disney movie musical about scrappy street urchins would someday become a Broadway hit. After al…
Thornton Wilder's experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane "Ubu Roi" scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are being…
Lucy Kirkwood's "NSFW" may not be deep but it is bright, which makes it a good mirror to the men's and women's magazines it attacks.Doghouse, a London "lads mag," inadvertently publishes a t…
Everybody gets wet in Abi Basch's "Voices Underwater," a lyrical ghost story involving a flood tide of Civil War history. A young couple - white woman, black man - arrive late one rainy nigh…
Norm Lewis seemed to arrive at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater from around 1962 on Saturday night. The Broadway stalwart dared to confess his early influences as Lawrence Welk and the R…
One way to measure Center Stage's departing artistic director, Irene Lewis, is by the way she gauges audience response to her current - and final - show there, Harold Pinter's "The Homecomin…
"Some of the work has been very, very impactful," says Moises Kaufman, who directed "I Am My Own Wife" on Broadway. "These are works that over the last decade have been among the most perfor…
A rare angle on race is the subject of "Tether," a new two-character drama now being presented by the Doorway Arts Ensemble. The play is about two sisters: twin girls, different races.
Some actors write, and some writers act. Harold Pinter was supremely praised for his acting forays, and Sam Shepard's face is as well-known as his plays thanks to a durable on-screen career.…
A hazard of being a Washington stage actress: It can isolate you from your female peers.
Alice McDermott doesn't have to adapt. The Bethesda-based novelist has no taste for collaboration, and that chased her away from theater and toward fiction years ago, despite an affinity for…
An informal but enthusiastic Tammy Grimes fan club convened Saturday night at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and they knew who -- and what -- they wanted. Grimes, a Tony winner for h…
Writer uses small cast, golf milieu to skewer country club culture
Can you Fringe from the Center? That's the question posed by "On the Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh," a brief sampling of works from the sprawling annual arts festival in Scotland now playing not …
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can't even tell themselves apart in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," Tom Stoppard's famous 1960s mashup of "Hamlet" and "Waiting for Godot.""Shouldn't we…
"The Letters" is a drama of thought control in Stalin's Soviet Union, and it's a good one " a slick 75 minutes with a Hitchcock-like grip. There are just two characters in John W. Lowell's p…
How gently can you make a joke about a largely gay soccer team called Barely Athletic struggling to beat a squad of transgender players in heels? This kind of thing comes across as sweet and…
In Arthur Miller's great brass-tacks drama "The Price," Victor, an honest cop, wants to play squarely with his brother Walter, a rich doctor he hasn't seen in the 16 years since their father…
In Tanya Barfield's troubling drama "The Call," Peter and Annie are hoping to adopt a baby. They've tried IVF with all of its hormone treatments and side effects (no luck), and now they're w…
"Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea" is an uncommonly pretty show, a tropical vision of ocean blue and foam white. This isn't just director Timothy Douglas dressing up the new 80-minute play with …