The dire turn in Russian-American relations has forced Woolly Mammoth Theatre to cancel a major festival of contemporary Russian theater that would have brought four plays and as many as 90 …
NEW YORK"As "Act One" would have it, no love is quite so intense and tempestuous as that between a playwright and his play. In fact, in the endearing new stage adaptation of Moss Hart's memo…
NEW YORK"The migrant-worker tragedy "Of Mice and Men" may be compulsory reading in freshman English, but should it feel like homework for Broadway audiences, too? A revival of the play based…
"Moth" is "Glee" for the Emo crowd, a look at high school life from the point of view of the disaffected and disenfranchised, the bullied and the brooding. Australian playwright Declan Green…
Whenever Tovah Feldshuh takes a pensive puff on a cigarette, pounds a frustrated fist on a table or confides a profound anxiety, out of all that smoke, noise and intimation of private terror…
"The Admission" " Motti Lerner's controversial play about a massacre of Palestinian civilians that just finished a short, sold-out run at Theater J " will have an afterlife. In an unusual mo…
Anyone worrying that the fizz is going out of the theater will find countervailing effervescence in "Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet," a beguiling confection assembled with glue, hinges and…
Viewing the Civil War through the prism of theater, dance and music is the focus of a two-day academic conference next week at George Washington University, which is co-sponsoring the event …
NEW YORK--The cardinal sin in adapting a Woody Allen film comedy for the stage is forcing the funny. So the creators of "Bullets Over Broadway the Musical," the sledgehammering act of period…
In one of the best scenes of "Camp David," the alternately talky and affecting new play at Arena Stage about the 13 grueling days of negotiations that led to the Middle East's most durable p…
NEW YORK--After a lukewarm stab at "A Raisin in the Sun" a decade ago, director Kenny Leon has returned to Lorraine Hansberry's definitive story of African-American aspiration with a potent …
The serious legal scholarship of Monty Python meets the comedy stylings of the U.S. Supreme Court in "Arguendo," a verbatim re-enactment of a constitutional case like none you'd ever see in …
A misunderstanding about who would direct Taylor Mac's play "Hir" (pronounced "Here") has prompted the New York-based actor and playwright to withdraw his work from Studio Theatre's 2014-15 …
"I'm a storyteller," the protagonist, Diana, declares in the opening moments of Allyson Currin's "The Carolina Layaway Grail," and what an appropriate prologue for the introductory play by a…
Today, theater lovers and other curious readers, we lay out for you Folger Theatre 's 2014-15 season, the 10th of our dives into the theater waves of Washington's future. Folger's plan of ac…
NEW YORK " The new "If/Then" is sleeker, smarter and runs far more efficiently than last year's ungainlier model, the one that had its test-drive in Washington last fall. Its heart is bigger…
The great Janet Suzman and her energetic co-star, Khayalethu Anthony, form an endearing partnership in "Solomon and Marion" " so agreeable, in fact, that you're doubly disappointed by the ex…
Studio Theatre's 2014-15 season is the subject of today's gaze into the dramatic future, and it includes the world premiere of a comedy, "Laugh," by Beth Henley ("Crimes of the Heart") and t…
"Not by Bread Alone," the most exotic entry in the Kennedy Center's 15-production World Stages festival, comes across less as a play or performance piece than as a kind of drama therapy for …
In Theater J's spellbinding premiere of Motti Lerner's "The Admission," the legacy of Israel's violent birth seems to bubble and swirl continually, as if being fed by a bottomless subterrane…
BALTIMORE " Release the Grundle? Oh, no, no, NO! Well, wait. Okay, new thought: do, do, DO release the Grundle, that bellicosely fleshy rocker-monster who uses an extra set of arms to play d…
NEW YORK--"Animated" doesn't begin to describe the frantic, screwball version of Disney's "Aladdin" that opened Thursday night on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, with a bushel of new …
The notion of human beings as solo travelers is poignantly challenged in Marguerite Duras's "Savannah Bay," a play from France that is as freshly and lovingly cultivated as a newly mown lawn…
Get ready to hear the guys from "Diner" crooning a score by Sheryl Crow in a familiar theater in Arlington. . A new musical version of the acclaimed 1982 movie, with music and lyrics by Crow…
Lucky No. 7 in our series of theater previews occurs today with an exploration of the 2014-15 season at Arlington's Signature Theatre. It's a lineup that includes three world premiere music…