1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
"Gigi" faced tough odds from the start. Although the new stage version of the 1958 Oscar-winning movie musical boasted a popular young star in Vanessa Hudgens, the show itself had a…
NEW YORK""Bombshell" lives!Well, kind of.Less a musical-for-television than a musical-made-up-for-television, "Bombshell" existed as 20-odd numbers scattered across 32 episode…
Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone deserved bett…
NEW YORK"Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone…
NEW YORK " "Fun Home," an emotionally searing musical about a gay woman's sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family, walked away with Sunday night's most coveted award, best musical…
Don't think of summer as theater's cooling-off period. Nowadays there's too much heat on too many stages to consider it the slow season. For more evidence that July and August aren't time to…
Well, kids, sorry to tell you, but the future here in the homeland doesn't look like much fun. Floods, civil wars, invasions by foreign powers, stonings, beheadings. And, oh, yeah, zombies i…
Jake, you were robbed!I know, I know, this doesn't rise to the level of war crime. It's simply another of those entertainment-world injustices, perpetrated like clockwork at awards-show time…
NEW YORK " In the beginning was the word, and that word (inevitably) was posted on Twitter. When God saw that the tweet was good, it begat other tweets, which begat a flock on Twitter number…
IN NEW YORK Alook of terror flashes in the eyes of Tate Donovan in the stomach-knotting second act of David Lindsay-Abaire's scintillating new comedy-drama, "Good People." It's the gaze of a…
Andrea Marcovicci new show, “Blue Champagne,” at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, is a deeply researched, thoroughly entertaining history of the torch song.
Measured against his greatest dramas, "Cymbeline" counts as an iffy achievement for Shakespeare, what with subplots recycled from weightier efforts and characters lacking in lightning-bolt i…
Marking its emergence as a center for asking big questions about the future of American theater, Arena Stage brought together more than 100 writers, directors and artistic managers from acro…
Your eye will never get weary in a visit to "Women on the Verge," but you're still likely to come out of the experience feeling shortchanged.
Arab literature, Israelis say, is not exactly rife with acknowledgments of the horror of the Holocaust. So when Israeli playwright and journalist Boaz Gaon was introduced to the work of the …
There is, it seems, no holding June Schreiner back. During a rehearsal for "Oklahoma!" - the hit Arena Stage revival in which the 16-year-old is making such a remarkable impression - Schrein…
When the Kennedy Center puts its estimable weight behind a big theater project, the results can have inordinate impact. Consider the importance to culture in this country of staging the late…
Almost any time a mouth opens and notes spill out, the newly slimmed down Chess is a gateway to musical-theater nirvana.
It's a hot-button debate that the nation's leading advocate for dance and theater, sculpture and opera has been spoiling to ignite for months: Does the country have more outlets for the arts…
The multitalented director Aaron Posner conjures with exceptional intelligence and sensitivity the religious and generational tempests of " The Chosen ," Chaim Potok's 1967 coming-of-age nov…
Every knight into the pool! For the baptismal production in its new home in Crystal City, Synetic Theater has left the water running. It's ankle-deep on the stage throughout the 90 heart-jo…
Angular and soft-spoken, wearing a dark suit and the inscrutable grin of someone who seems to know something you don't, David Muse rises at a dinner in a sprawling, art-filled house on the e…
Whether they featured a man alone at a desk, or a chorus dancing in formation, the best theater of 2010 in Washington shared a gratifying characteristic: the dazzle factor. For the sparkle o…
It may have been the most mortifying night of Amy Ryan's life. She was on Broadway, playing the role of Sonya opposite Derek Jacobi and Laura Linney in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."
