Can a play have a halo? "How to Write a New Book for the Bible" arrives at Bethesda's Round House Theatre with an almost holy glow: It's the deeply autobiographical account of a Jesuit pries…
Playwright Amy Herzog has arrived in a hurry. First New York: she has conquered off-Broadway with three acclaimed productions in the past 12 months, starting with the Lincoln Center Theater'…
Jason Robert Brown's 2002 song cycle "The Last Five Years," about a young couple's romantic flameout, was written in the heat of divorce, and it shows. It hurtles with energy: The story-rich…
The Folger Theatre's wild west "The Taming of the Shrew" rode a field-topping nine nominations going into Monday night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre, Washington theater's annual…
Outstanding Director, Resident Musical Serge Seiden Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris MetroStage Read full article >>
What do the words "middle management" bring to mind? If you picture a man halfway up a tree in his underwear, then the jolly "Neville's Island" won't take you by surprise. Playwright Tim Fir…
How inescapable is "A Raisin in the Sun"? It's not actually being performed as part of the bold two-play "Raisin Cycle" beginning Wednesday at Baltimore's Center Stage, but Lorraine Hansberr…
It was a lifetime ago that actress Tana Hicken rejected the obvious path leading to New York and the bland rags of ingenue parts. "I wanted to be an actor," Hicken says. "I wanted to do tran…
Let's remember Marisa Wegrzyn's name. The Chicago-bred playwright, 31, has earned prizes and commissions across the theater world, so, of course, she has already split for the commercially g…
Well, hello again, "Dolly!" It has been nearly 50 years since Carol Channing and a dazzling cluster of high-stepping waiters found their footing in the pre-Broadway tryout of a shaky new mus…
The voyage from the rural South to the urban North and back is long and twisted in "Home," the 1980 road-trip-of-the-soul drama by Samm-Art Williams. The itinerary of Cephus Miles, a modest …
"Oh the shark has Pretty teeth, dear "" Which is more than can be said for the blandly cheery revue gliding around toothlessly at Source. "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: A Musical Voya…
How in the H-E-double hockey sticks can you act out Dante's "Inferno"? For the one-man adaptation with the Washington Stage Guild, Bill Largess takes a reverent approach. He cleaves to the 1…
An ambitious National Civil War Project will be unveiled Thursday at Arena Stage as major universities and flagship theaters in four cities team up to create new performances and campus prog…
Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is the famous tale of alienation in which the protagonist, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning as an insect. It's a creepy fable, and the magn…
Danai Gurira from A to Z: well, mostly Z. As in Zimbabwe. That's where the increasingly visible, Iowa-born Gurira was raised, and it's the subject of her new historical drama currently at Wo…
There are shows that let you know almost immediately that the night may be a satisfying knockout. Steve Cosson's staging of "Spring Awakening," drawing young and hip-looking crowds to the su…
There's this guy shuffling around on the stage of the Lansburgh Theatre " just a guy. Small-time. Beige suit, kind of rumpled. Talks in slang about horse races and crap games. A loser, but w…
Here's what happens when your stage is a pool, which is how it is with playwright Mary Zimmerman's famous "Metamorphoses " Read full article >>
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" goes "Little Mermaid" in a whimsical new staging by Taffety Punk Theatre Company that's goofy and buoyant. Occasional bubbles suggest everything's underwater .�…
Richard Schiff is having a Toby Ziegler moment. "There are so many stories," murmurs Schiff, who played angst-riddled White House communications director Ziegler on the game-changing TV seri…
The dish from the Helen Hayes Awards announcement Monday night: the most nominations for a musical went to a show from a dinner theater. The Toby's Dinner Theatre production of "The Color Pu…
The bar is set pretty high for the Barbara Cook Spotlight Series at the Kennedy Center. Yet during an exhilarating 90 minutes Friday night in the Terrace Theater, Broadway vet Terri White ki…
The folks at Rorschach Theatre are practiced fantasists, so they have no problem conjuring a minotaur for the new play "The Minotaur." Costume designer Lauren Cucarola provides actor David Z…
Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is proving to be a play for all political times. During the fall election season, "Enemy" was on Broadway starring Richard Thomas, while a separate pr…