1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
Ford's Theatre's 2014-15 schedule comes under the microscope in the 8th installment of our previews of forthcoming theater in the D.C. region, and the image coming into focus most vividly is…
When practiced deftly, diplomacy is likened to an art. But can it also be an entertainment? The question is being taken up at the moment at Arena Stage, where a journalist-playwright and a …
We turn our attention today to Arlington, Va. for the sixth installment of our 2014-15 previewing, and a look at the forthcoming shows of scrappy Crystal City-based Synetic Theater, oversee…
NEW YORK " With the electrifying climax they've come up with for the new musical version of "Rocky," director Alex Timbers and his creative team reveal themselves to be true lords of the rin…
The list of Rupert Murdoch's business conquests is long. "Rupert" feels even longer. A deal-by-deal account of the media titan's voracious career, during which he's gobbled up everything fro…
You'd be hard-pressed to launch an expedition to theater from around the globe more auspiciously than with "The Suit," a movingly evocative South African fable about folly and unforgiveness …
NEW YORK " Usually, talking during a performance is strictly a no-no. But in the final days last fall of the Washington tryout of their new musical "If/Then," Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt could…
Addiction binds together the disparate characters of Quiara Alegria Hudes's "Water by the Spoonful," but an even more tenacious adversary has a hold on them: shame, of a kind that simmers an…
"Fallujah" March 29, Terrace Gallery Countries: Iraq, Canada Description: A staged reading of a new chamber opera by Iraqi American playwright Heather Raffo and Canadian composer Tobin …
"Rupert" March 12-15, Eisenhower Theater Country: Australia Description: From the Melbourne Theatre Company comes David Williamson's cabaret-influenced play about Australian-born media …
"Savannah Bay" March 19-22, Family Theater Country: France Description: Marguerite Duras's 1982 play is revived by Thé âtre de l'Atelier and tells the story of a young woman poring …
"Not by Bread Alone" March 25-26, Terrace Theater Country: Israel Description: Eleven members of the Nalaga'at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble give audiences a sense of the extraordi…
"Solomon and Marion" March 28-30, Terrace Theater Country: South Africa Description: Lara Foot's play, in a production by the Cape Town-based Baxter Theatre Centre, details a clash of S…
"The Suit" March 11-13, Terrace Theater Country: France Description: Peter Brook's Paris-based Thé âtre des Bouffes du Nord performs this South African play by Can Themba, Mothobi M…
o the layout of the Kennedy Center, with its sweeping Hall of States and Hall of Nations, you can add the halls of global drama. ¶ From Tuesday until April 6, the stages of the august per…
Fifth in our series of glimpses of the theater future: Round House Theatre's 2014-15 season. (We've previously taken tours of the forthcoming dramatic agendas of Shakespeare Theatre Compan…
NEW YORK " Bryan Cranston for president! Portraying America's 36th chief executive, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in Robert Schenkkan's democratic procedural drama "All the Way," Cranston proves so…
Thank the gods, or at least the licensing people: in the new stage version of "Beaches," we get to hear "The Wind Beneath My Wings." It arrives during Act 2 of this amiable throwback of a mu…
David Stone, producer of Broadway's new musical "If/Then," starring Idina Menzel, says that the box office receipts for the show doubled on Monday, after Menzel sang on the Oscars Sunday nig…
The Kennedy Center rolled out its 2014-15 performance map today, and included in the voluminous document are the plans for its theater offerings for the coming season, including the world …
Up now for your delectation: the 2014-15 season at Arena Stage . Nine productions, five of them world premieres, including this sure-to-be talk-of-the-town entry: "The Originalist," a new p…
For anyone who finds the persona of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a little bit theatrical, Arena Stage thinks it's found the perfect play. Next season, the company will stage the worl…
NEW YORK -- Were it not for the emotional crescendos Kelli O'Hara achieves with Jason Robert Brown's swooningly melodic score, the new Broadway version of "The Bridges of Madison County" mig…
The Women's Voices Festival just got louder. The Kennedy Center and four other companies have been added to the list of participating theaters in the fall 2015 festival. This brings to 49 th…
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