It's the halftime show that's really got game in Andrew Hinderaker's exhilarating new football play, "Colossal." The actors portraying grunting college linemen and cornerbacks become, in the…
Musicals by their nature traffic in fantasy. What after all is less reflective of everyday reality than characters who regularly, seemingly spontaneously, burst into song? This assertively …
Like its audacious heroine, the new stage version of "Yentl" gets itself into a bit of a pickle. To Isaac Bashevis Singer's tale of a young, knowledge-craving Jewish woman who disguises hers…
It had the potential to be one of the most galvanizing cultural events of the season: A dozen Syrian women, refugees from that besieged country, performing in Washington a version of a 2,500…
All over the place, foolish fond old monarchs are dropping like anguished flies. In Chicago and New York, in London and Toronto and Washington, actors in shredded costumes are raging on temp…
In "She Kills Monsters," Rorschach Theatre boldly goes where a generation of dungeon masters has gone before, to tell the story of a young woman who, in losing herself in a game, reclaims a …
Sometimes, a painting strikes you as so glorious it seems to sing to you. On far rarer occasions, it actually does. The latter illusion is sustained breathtakingly in Stephen Sondheim and Ja…
On Tuesday night, the cast and audience of Broadway's "Aladdin" sang a tribute to the late Robin Williams "Â the Genie of the animated movie version "Â in the form of a portion of the Ge…
NEW YORK " It's kind of wild, if not entirely wonderful, what Cate Blanchett and her co-conspirators achieve in their revival of Jean Genet's louche tragicomedy, "The Maids." With cameras pe…
"Side Show" has booked its return ticket to Broadway. The well-received Kennedy Center revival of the 1997 musical will begin performances Oct. 28 at the St. James Theatre, with an opening n…
The new lineup for No Rules Theatre , the six-year-old company with the unique geographic identity"it presents work annually both in Arlington and in Winston-Salem, N.C."is described to…
NEW YORK " It's not only the murdered Cordelia that John Lithgow bears onto the open-air stage of the Public Theater's "King Lear." All evening, this big, winning lug of an actor al…
Do to Chekhov's "The Seagull" what you will, I suppose. Pepper the dialogue with f-bombs; give Masha a ukulele and Konstantin a laptop; add a bit of nudity. Break down the barriers between a…
LONDON " When actors as demonstrably intelligent as Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy are let loose on an artfully crafted piece of penetrating drama, something special is bound to happen. And i…
As acting breeds go, Elaine Stritch was one of theater's Great Dames. She strayed, from time to time, into movies and television over the course of an astonishing 70 years in show business. …
Sam can't understand what's happening to him " or, for that matter, what's going on with his best friend, Jacob, who suddenly has taken to intimidating and denouncing him, especially when bo…
With the 2014-15 season kinda sorta already underway, we sample today the late-reporting Forum Theatre and its new slate of offerings. The Little Company That Could on Colesville Road in Sil…
When the musical version of Stephen King's "Carrie" opened on Broadway in 1988, the reviews were so poisonous that it shuttered within three days, going into the books as one of the most inf…
View Photo Gallery "Elaborate costumes and new songs are featured in this re-working of the 1997 Broadway musical. It is based on the true story of the Hilton twins, Daisy and Violet, Britis…
LONDON " You have only to make your way to a seat in the Lyttleton Theatre in London to discover the depths of compassion you could muster for George Clooney. No, Clooney is nowhere to be se…
For the purest distillation in popular culture in these days of Jekyll and Hyde, look not to a character but to a city. On the one hand, we have President Frank Underwood, who connives in …
Capped by two climactic, heartbreaking songs and two tender, epic performances, the "Side Show" that has been given a new life by the Kennedy Center is an intoxicating experience " a poignan…
Capped by two climactic, heartbreaking songs and two tender, epic performances, the "Side Show" that has been given a new life by the Kennedy Center is an intoxicating experience " a poignan…
NEW YORK"The drink cart rolled out at the conclusion of "Here Lies Love" is completely in keeping with the party-hearty spirit of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's boisterous rock musical, a sho…
"That is something I never thought I'd do," an actor declares in the midst of "Cloak and Dagger." He might, in fact, want to hold that thought, as he reflects in his maturing years on his pa…