It's hard to weigh the impact of the small Keegan Theatre company's purchase of the Church Street Theater without first doing some, well, "bathroom math." The theater seats 117, and lately i…
The building and home-owning surge in Washington theater will continue Friday as the edgy and acclaimed Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the purchase of the 265-seat facility that it…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company moved a step closer to trial Friday in its tenancy dispute over the company's longtime theater in the Lansburgh building downtown. The Tony Award-winning clas…
Even the orchestra laughs along with "Anything Goes," the jubilant, dance-your-cares-away musical comedy that just sailed into the Kennedy Center's Opera House for a month. As the saxophones…
Even producing such slender rock-and-roll camp as "Diamond Dead" and "Cannibal, the Musical," Andrew Baughman and his heavy-metal brethren with the Landless Theatre Companyoutgrew their base…
Things have changed around the Source Festival since it first began in 1981. The nighttime sidewalk at 14th and T Northwest teems with hipsters bobbing from bar to bar. It used to be a scary…
NEW YORK " Line up Kathleen Marshall's three Tony Awards for choreography in the past decade, and it's easy to spot the trend. "I'm the vintage girl," Marshall acknowledges with a laugh. The…
Does this sound too cynical? "Love is the happy by-product of use," says one of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo's dark, delightfully tart "Becky Shaw." The play " a 2009 Pulitzer Prize fin…
The rude, childish title of "Stupid F---ing Bird" turns out to be smack on the money for Aaron Posner's savvy, petulant blitz through Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull." Posner's new play is less…
What can you do with a warhorse like "Blithe Spirit"? Noel Coward's ghostly comedy is snappy and professional at 1st Stage (tucked away in a small Tysons Corner strip mall), and it isn't eno…
Post-Katrina New Orleans is the backdrop for Dan Dietz's new drama "Clementine in the Lower 9," and the hypnotic production at Forum Theatre features a jagged hole ripped through a wide roof…
Theaters keep rolling out new ways to premiere plays, and two fresh Washington initiatives are in full flower " or in full beast mode " right now. Theater J's initiative, called Locally Grow…
The Arlington County Board approved a $250,000 grant to Signature Theatre on Tuesday as the parties reconsider Signature's lease and tax arrangements. The move, approved in a 5 to 0 vote, co…
Nearly everything Synetic Theater does could be called "Fast and Furious," and the movement-based troupe's relentless new "The Three Musketeers" opens with a tiger pounce as four actors leap…
At 65, composer Stephen Schwartz is indisputably the king of ol' Broadway. Last week "Wicked," nearly 10 years into its gravity-defying long run, was the Âmost-attended show on the strip,…
Jeff Talbott's "The Submission" is maddening and smug, but it begins with a fabulous premise. Danny has just written a play he thinks is dynamite, yet he fears no theater will touch it. It's…
Adam Pascal, in skinny jeans and sneakers, suggested Friday night that the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater was "too hoity-toity a venue for me." His introspective 70-minute set " more lite …
This season, the small-budget troupe WSC Avant Bard lost its residency in Rosslyn's Artisphere. They're now on the lam. They've stopped briefly at Theatre on the Run, an 85-seat space in Shi…
Any search for a perfect Henry Higgins might stop happily with Jonathan Pryce. The "My Fair Lady" gala concert Sunday night at the Kennedy Center was satisfying, not stunning, but it often s…
It is 1919 in the enjoyably bookish drama "Ghost-Writer," and the novelist Franklin Woolsey has just died. Yet his typist, Myra Babbage, continues to type, insisting that she's just finishin…
With enough imagination you can make a puppet out of anything " a kitchen whisk, steel shoe trees, even a leather belt. That's the chief fascination of "The Amazing and Marvelous Cabinets of…
"Funny" is a word the characters murmur from time to time in the "The Personal(s)," a gloomy but gripping new play from No Rules Theatre Company. They say it because they're past laughter, s…
The current predicament of the perennially cash-strapped classical troupe WSC Avant Bard is no joke, yet its scrappy response sets up an obvious one-liner. Q: What play sounds right for a su…
No thinking: that's the empty mind-set of the swinging '60s bedroom farce "Boeing Boeing," even though this peppy French artifact is fundamentally a math problem. Follow the numbers. The pla…
"This is the story," declares a feisty Toby Orenstein, co-owner and artistic director of Toby's Dinner Theatre, which is celebrated and berated in what sometimes seems to be equal measure. "…