Spend some time in the White House, and you'll know the feeling of hope slipping away. Fortunately for supporters of the incumbent president, the White House in question on this occasion is …
Well, hello Nancy! Ford's Theatre and Signature Theatre, co-producers of a revival next March of the Jerry Herman hit musical from the '60s, "Hello, Dolly!", say they have found their Dolly …
He looks as if he emerged from the laboratory of a veterinary Dr. Frankenstein. With haunches that appear to have been stripped from the guts of an amusement park ride, and a thatched torso …
"Our Class," an obsessively detailed account of 10 intertwined Polish lives, from 1926 to 2003, presents audiences with a wrenching course of human events and an atrocity whose barbarity is …
In this year of endless divining of the will of the people, theatergoers might find especially noteworthy the contrarian outlook of playwright Henrik Ibsen, who no doubt would have considere…
No theater in the world may be accomplishing so much through the efforts of so few. With a full-time staff that would barely fill a shift at a medium-size Starbucks, Druid Theatre Company, b…
If all goes as planned, a high-profile Washington stage director will be making her Broadway debut this spring, shepherding a new play by a dramatist who will also be having his freshman exp…
If all goes as planned, a high-profile Washington stage director will be making her Broadway debut this spring, shepherding a new play by a dramatist who will also be having his freshman exp…
Does Craig, the rising star who invites himself into his sister-in-law's flat one evening in the winningly understated "Dying City," realize the depths of his insensitivity? Embodied by the …
If "One Night With Janis Joplin" glosses over some of our more sordid memories of a rock-and-roll legend silenced at 27 by a heroin overdose, the Arena Stage tribute show that has oldsters' …
NEW YORK--Watching "Grace" all those years ago in the spartan confines of the Warehouse on 7th St. NW, one might never have imagined Broadway in its future. Don't get me wrong:dramatist Crai…
The hardest working man in Washington doesn't sit at a government desk on Capitol Hill or field grounders on the waterfront or whip up elegant embassy dinners on Massachusetts Avenue. No, he…
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad mir that director Michael Kahn conjures in his Russian-screwball treatment of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector." Calling to disorder a gaggle of Shakespear…
After Fair Isle sweaters, single malt whisky and Ewan McGregor, "Black Watch" may be Scotland's most important export. The captivating play about a storied Scottish regiment's deployment to…
NEW YORK"How Washington theater lights Joy Zinoman and Holly Twyford came to make their New York debuts with the breathlessly spare playlets of Samuel Beckett is a story that has to be to…
For his wholly original black comedy, "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," playwright Rajiv Joseph comes up with what seems a fittingly disquieting metaphor for the anguishing entanglements of…
In most places, Mead means paper. In Washington, it stands for art. And, more often than not, art of a theatrical kind. Blessed with an immense fortune, Gilbert Mead and his brainy, unassumi…
What they do for love. No other rationale adequately explains the uncommon devotion of actors who work regularly on Washington's stages. It's not filthy lucre that keeps them coming back: so…
Painstakingly faithful and ravishingly composed, the new stage version of Ralph Ellison's masterwork, "Invisible Man," is a wholly respectable and at times even radiantly evocative portrait …
Those gleaming behemoths who execute front bumps and pile drives and elbow drops aren't merely pumped-up slabs of meat on a tape loop of fixed matches. As playwright Kristoffer Diaz avers in…
With all the reverent portent that attaches to productions of "Hamlet," an audience can lose sight of one keen attribute: It's a ripping good yarn. That sometime-neglected trait is compensat…
Did you happen to notice how, in his masterly mix of reciting and extemporizing, global statesman and Yale Law School graduate Bill Clinton repeatedly inserted the language of back-porch aut…
A few noteworthy "firsts" make Guinness World Records. More often, they don't draw the attention of record keepers. They're the firsts that escape detection on hype meters " milder milestone…
Look! Up on the stage! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a guy in a leather cape with adequacy issues. In "Reals," playwright Gwydion Suilebhan takes a classic comic-book theme " the …
Was it a coincidence that, on the podium in Tampa, the ice blue in Paul Ryan's tie and in the abstract background projection brought out a similar tone in his eyes? If so, it was a marvelous…