If you think you remember "Gigi" well, a newly buffed revival wants you to have some freshened perspective on the Oscar-winning 1958 film musical, later turned into a stage version by its cr…
Here, plain and simple, are my 10 favorite Washington theater experiences of 2014:1. "Side Show," Kennedy Center. Forever ahead of its time, this heartbreaking musical about conjoined twins …
Fear not, "Diner" fans: The world-premiere musical version at Signature Theatre faithfully replicates the outrageous movie-house scene from Barry Levinson's beloved 1982 film, the one in whi…
The battle over the firing of Theater J artistic director Ari Roth took another bitter turn this week, with the circulation of remarks by his boss at the DC Jewish Community Center, Carole R…
Here is the letter about the firing of Ari Roth, artistic director of Theater J, that Carole Zawatsky, CEO of the DC Jewish Community Center, e-mailed Wednesday to Israeli playwright Motti L…
Another open letter protesting the firing of Theater J's longtime artistic director, Ari Roth, is being circulated by a pair of Bay Area-based documentary film makers, Deborah Kaufman and Al…
Artistic directors of major theater companies from across the country on Monday signed this open letter to the DC Jewish Community Center:"We, the undersigned artistic directors, are outrage…
In an extraordinary demonstration of unity and anger, 61 artistic directors of major theater companies from across the country on Monday denounced the DC Jewish Community Center's firing of …
By last summer, the estrangement was nearly complete. Tensions between Theater J and its parent organization, the D.C. Jewish Community Center, over the theater company's offerings related t…
Is "Into the Woods" a golden Christmas goose? We are about to discover whether toy-crazy, youth-worshiping American filmgoers will in large numbers embrace a movie musical that effectively s…
Ari Roth, longtime artistic director of Theater J, an organization he has built over the last 18 years into one of the city's most artistically probing and ambitious theater companies, said …
If your sense of humor is a type your friends diplomatically describe as "quirky," you're likely the target audience for "Famous Puppet Death Scenes," a piece of oddball theater that's down …
It's not what's behind a curtain, but behind a screen, that counts most crucially in Synetic Theater's graphically clever new adaptation of the 18th-century French fairy tale "Beauty and the…
Sleekly assembled and easy on the eyes, Shakespeare Theatre Company's new "The Tempest" is a highly enjoyable rendering of Shakespeare's late romance and one of the warmer productions to bri…
NEW YORK " As guests go, in the megastar-driven dinner party that Broadway has become, Bradley Cooper makes for respectful, well disciplined company. That he's not the exhilarating life o…
Back when he was in his 20s and doing community theater in the Northern Virginia suburbs " at a stage of his career when he was green and didn't know what he didn't know " Eric Schaeffer cam…
Back when he was in his 20s and doing community theater in the Northern Virginia suburbs " at a stage of his career when he was green and didn't know what he didn't know " Eric Schaeffer cam…
NEW YORK " Night after night, as the lights go down in the Neil Simon Theatre and musicians on guitar and flute and fiddle begin to play, a multiple Grammy-winning international star settles…
No, not THAT "Nutcracker"! Everyone at Round House Theatre is growing accustomed to correcting this thoroughly understandable misunderstanding. "The Nutcracker" is the company's latest offer…
Love of ballet flows from every pore and plie of "Little Dancer." The new Kennedy Center musical showcases most rewardingly the technical gifts of Tiler Peck, a beguiling New York City Balle…
It's been perilously gusty this week outside the confines of Theater J " and within. A great torrent of words is whooshing across the company's stage, courtesy of Tony Kushner and his garrul…
NEW YORK " "Side Show" looks fabulous and sounds gorgeous on Broadway, the place it establishes through director Bill Condon's sterling handiwork that it truly belongs. Let's hope a substant…
NEW YORK " Entrance applause is the theater world's People's Choice Award, the accolade bestowed by audiences on celebrities they admire as they glide into sight for the first time. Or maybe…
It may set some kind of speed record for turning a news event into a theatrical one. Three months after Ferguson, Mo., became a household name, the city's unrest over a white police officer'…
Just as you're advised to stand back from an electrified third rail, you might want to maintain a safe distance from Daphna and Liam, the hazardous kibitzing cousins of Joshua Harmon's devas…