After 28 years as a key figure in Studio Theatre's management and programming, Keith Alan Baker has left the company and been replaced as managing director by Meridith Burkus, who joined Stu…
The amorous tussle that is "As You Like It" never comes more vigorously to life in the Lansburgh Theatre than when two guys strip off their shirts and go at it on the mat. It's the wrestling…
NEW YORK"The brisk and bristling "Disgraced" confers on Broadway a quality in far too short supply: topicality. Ayad Akhtar's spiky drama, which had its official opening Thursday night at…
Give "The Wolfe Twins" time. What begins as a seemingly innocuous story of American tourists in a pensione in Rome eventually gains in power and depth and richness, to the point at which dec…
Lots of theatergoers will envy the life-changing lightning that strikes Olivia in Laura Eason's scrumptious "Sex With Strangers." Snowbound in a Michigan cabin where she's working on her nov…
"Unlikely" doesn't begin to describe the friendship struck up in the mid-1960s between heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and movie actor Stepin Fetchit. One was an empowering figure of stren…
As a fable about evangelism-as-show-business, the musical version of "Elmer Gantry" is for much of the evening at Signature Theatre a smooth and confident ride, especially when it's cruising…
NEW YORK " When Tiler Peck was 18 and a rising star of the dance world, something happened to her that nobody was quite prepared for. A setback. See, this precocious golden girl from the Gol…
It isn't every day that an American stage director has the notion of producing an Israeli play and taking it on the road. But Guy Ben-Aharon isn't every American stage director. Tired of hea…
 NEW YORK"What the heck is with these guys? The thought is inescapable as you watch "Tail! Spin!", Mario Correa's juicy exercise in satirical target practice, at the Lynn Redgrave T…
NEW YORK"Deeply absorbing drama may not be the export that comes most vividly to mind when one thinks of West Virginia. Certainly, though, "Uncanny Valley," Thomas Gibbons's cerebrally chall…
NEW YORK " Darren Bagert saw "Side Show" in San Diego " five times, in fact. Night after night he sat in the La Jolla Playhouse last fall, taking notes on director Bill Condon's revamped ver…
NEW YORK " Some theater lovers' idea of heaven just may be a soigné Manhattan apartment where for all eternity Nathan Lane is perched on a lounge, holding a tumbler of scotch and chattil…
NEW YORK " As she did with "War Horse," director Marianne Elliott devises in the stimulating new stage adaptation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" a luminous t…
NEW YORK " One person's charming escapade is another person's cloying chestnut. In the case of the new Broadway revival of "You Can't Take It With You," count me with that other person. F…
Any enterprise that begins with Jayne Houdyshell offers the possibility for true happiness. And indeed, Arena Stage's "The Shoplifters" does start off on an amusing footing, with Houdyshell …
You can't stop the drama " even when the government tries to. An example of this phenomenon presented itself on Friday night at Georgetown University, where a Syrian refugee, speaking by vid…
"Toast," the latest interactive performance piece from dog & pony dc, takes audience participation into a new arena " or maybe not so new, to anyone who's ever been on one of those corpo…
You haven't heard Mozart until he's been played on marimbas. You're in luck, too, because the opportunity presents itself this week in Washington in the Isango Ensemble's remarkable "The Mag…
Tony-winning Signature Theatre has always gone its own way, musically speaking " especially when it comes to scouring the countryside for original material. This season alone, the Shirlingto…
NEW YORK"That kid you loved on "Arrested Development" is now that guy you'll adore on Broadway. Michael Cera makes a sublime debut on the theater world's biggest stage alongside two other sp…
NEW YORK " That kid you loved on "Arrested Development" is now that guy you'll adore on Broadway. Michael Cera makes a sublime debut on the theater world's biggest stage alongside two other …
"Belleville" is the sort of Âatmospheric thriller that comes to a delicate boil under a slender flame and leaves you, after all is ominously said and done, a bit creeped out but less than…
Thank heaven for teen movie sensations: They grow up in the most theatrical ways. Take, for instance, Vanessa Hudgens, star of Disney's "High School Musical" franchise, who will headline the…
The solid "King Lear"at Folger Theatre is so modestly mounted, it could fit in the pockets of other recent productions of Shakespeare's darkest tragedy. Eight actors play all of the roles in…