1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has on its hands a 1,000-pound canary. It warbles like a dream, but boy, does it take up a lot of space.
Karl Miller is seriously creepy. And we can all be grateful for that.
NEW YORK -- Just in time for the populist uprising of 2010, Broadway is host to a rock musical about the populist uprising of 1828. In the vibrantly subversive "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson…
When Florence Lacey's Norma Desmond steps uncertainly into the spotlight on the Hollywood sound stage in "Sunset Boulevard" and sings the first notes of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," Andrew…
If musicals are your thing, you're in the right place
Few things in life sound better than " South Pacific ." And few "South Pacifics" have sounded as good as the deeply pleasurable revival bivouacked in the Kennedy Center Opera House for the h…
The thunderous aftershocks of "Black Watch" are not merely those set off by the realistic sounds of mortars and rockets exploding in the convulsed soil of Iraq. No, the jolts delivered in th…
Mary Zimmerman's often beguiling "The Arabian Nights" is an evening of unfoldings: first of elegant Persian carpets, then of lyrical Eastern tales. Over the course of 21/2 hours, the Chicago…
Capitalizing on the many fans of classical drama who also seem to love show tunes, the Shakespeare Theatre Company will inaugurate in its 25th-anniversary season a musical-in-concert series …
World premiere on church burnings a compelling sell
The Bob Marley of "Marley," the new bio-musical forged from the life and artistry of the Jamaican reggae legend, is a tough guy to get a handle on. Stoic, unforthcoming, introspective, he is…
It's remarkable how bleak and yet so spirit-lifting "Cabaret" can be, all at once. Boasting John Kander and Fred Ebb's richest score and an ingenious hall-of-mirrors storytelling structure b…
A river of anguish spills out of the memory-haunted half-sisters of "The Blood Quilt," playwright Katori Hall's character-rich though unevenly engaging family drama, receiving its world prem…
Audience walkouts during a performance are an occupational hazard for stage actors. But the one that occurred some days ago in the opening moments of "The Originalist" struck Edward Gero as …
In one of the inaugural acts by his new theater company, Ari Roth will stage a play that he believes was key to his firing at his old one.As a result, Mosaic Theater Company of D.C. " the gr…
NEW YORK " "An American in Paris," a lavish new dance-driven adaptation of the 1951 Oscar-winning movie, shared honors as biggest harvester of Tony nods, 12, including one for best original …
NEW YORK " Two Broadways coexist, in uneasy detente, amid the narrow swath of theaters stretching from West 41st Street to Lincoln Center on West 65th. One of these Broadways is a haven of s…
NEW YORK " A wholly contagious joy of motion is packed into every kick, lift, tap and leap of "An American in Paris," director-choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's suavely mounted, dance-dri…
NEW YORK " Depending on what voters have in mind, "Clinton the Musical" is either a flashback to some of the juicier comedy targets of recent presidential history or an early warning about a…
NEW YORK " "Gigi" is a flawed musical about a Pyrrhic victory, the triumph of a feisty young woman groomed to be a sexual trophy who ends up becoming a rich man's trophy wife instead. The pr…
NEW YORK " It's not a choice that everyone is equipped to make, to trade plush surroundings and comfortable love affairs for life in a dank flat and a job teaching the children of society's …
NEW YORK " The Larry David who stars in "Fish in the Dark," his middling new Broadway comedy about a cantankerous head-case urinal manufacturer, bears striking similarities to the Larry Davi…
NEW YORK " Lin-Manuel Miranda is showing us the way. To anyone who might suggest musical theater has hit a creative dead end, the actor-songwriter unfolds a spectacularly persuasive counter�…
