NEW YORK " It's the oldest story on Broadway. And still the most irresistible. A young actress, seemingly out of nowhere " okay, American University by way of Howard County and Glenelg High …
Fresh today in our ongoing assessment of the newly announced theater seasons in and around DC for 2014-15: Woolly Mammoth . (Previously covered: Shakespeare Theatre Company.) Company trade…
A big black pit is the fitting landscape in which director Molly Smith situates her creditable new production of "Mother Courage and her Children," Bertolt Brecht's bleak and sprawling fable…
The city fathers (and mothers) of "Beertown" " that fictional bastion of ballot-worshiping democracy " have temporarily pulled up stakes inside the Beltway and resettled smack-dab in the mid…
Describing "Yellow Face" as a deeply personal manifesto about Asian American identity certainly runs the risk of my sounding as if it's a play for an audience of ethnologists. So let me quic…
NEW YORK--The city fathers (and mothers) of "Beertown"--that fictional bastion of ballot-worshiping democracy--have temporarily pulled up stakes inside the beltway and resettled smack dab in…
A kingdom built on graves. Given the discovery in 2012 of the purported final resting place of the real King Richard III, one would be hard-pressed to come up with a central image timelier a…
Today, Shakespeare Theatre Company becomes the first of the subscription theaters in DC to announce its 2014-15 season. As the various companies in and around town announce what they're doi…
At the Kennedy Center come March, all the world's ON stage. From China and Chile the plays will arrive, and from France and Kuwait and Canada and Australia and Mexico and Israel and South Af…
From the moment the spiritually and physically scarred heroine boards that Tulsa-bound Greyhound bus in "Violet," the slight and earnest gospel rock musical that formally opened Wednesday ni…
The new "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Shakespeare Theatre Company is impeccably done. And if you don't buy tickets to this amusingly sunny mounting of Oscar Wilde's exquisitely percol…
Leaders of the Dramatists Guild of America spoke out on Monday against a campaign being waged by a local ad-hoc group against a forthcoming play at Washington's Theater J that looks critical…
Forty-four theater companies in the Washington region have signed on to the Women's Voices Theatre Festival, which will present 44 world premieres by women over an eight-week period in the l…
The Women's Voices Theatre Festival, encompassing virtually every large, midsize and fledgling theater company in and around the city, is being billed as a seminal event in the effort to put…
Forty-four Washington theater companies announced today that each will produce a world-premiere play by a female dramatist in the fall of 2015, in one of the more audacious and ambitious res…
On Broadway, does Carole King trump Janis Joplin? Producers of "A Night With Janis Joplin" announced this week that the concert-style musical about hard-driving, hard-living rock legend wil…
For your serving of "Violet": Will that be one act, or two? Here's the odd turn of events in the life of this rarely seen musical, a minor sensation in its brief off-Broadway run 17 years ag…
Say this for Daniel Radcliffe: Where a lot of other actors who've made their names in movies have treated the stage as a stopover, the 24-year-old star of the "Harry Potter" franchise has so…
The folks at Synetic Theater, those wranglers of movement, muscle and art, have put on lots of Shakespeare in their time. Now, with an exuberant adaptation of "Twelfth Night," they're also p…
Several months ago, Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage, approached me with an intriguing offer: organizing and moderating a series of discussions, with theater people and topics o…
In just the way a 9-year-old might think a big problem could be wished away with colored pencils and glitter, Anu Yadav conjures a whimsical brainstorm as little Meena, the heroine of her pr…
As the deaf son of hearing parents in Nina Raine's turbulent, absorbing "Tribes," James Caverly's Billy sits Sphinx-like at family meals, his placid features an invitation to conjecture. Is …
Signature Theatre's gripping "Gypsy," a revival of the 1959 musical that is fortified by the crackerjack central performances of Sherri L. Edelen as Momma Rose and Maria Rizzo as daughter Gy…
Had it up to here with the best-of-everything lists in multiples of five, 10 and 100? In lieu of another shout-out to the great nights and another shout-down of the benighted, what follows i…
On the first days of rehearsal, when everyone tends to be a little formal, anyway, Michael Tolaydo was conscious of dealing even more gingerly with a castmate, Joey Caverly, because he is de…