How "Broadway" can you get? Not much more, certainly, than is conjured by the songs of those melodic ambassadors from the world of show-tune brass, sultriness and pizazz, John Kander and Fre…
"Side Show" was one of those artistic ventures that, adored by musical theater enthusiasts but shunned by the less ardent of Broadway's fans, failed to catch on. Now, it's getting another c…
NEW YORK ""Anne, they're ready for you," someone called out to Anne S. Kohn, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's associate director of administration. In her evening gown, she glanced across t…
NEW YORK " The Kennedy Center fell just short of achieving Tony glory Sunday night as its acclaimed production of "Follies," considered by some the best musical revival of the Broadway seaso…
In Synetic Theater's new war drama "Home of the Soldier," the bodies pile up, but unfortunately, so do the cliches. This 90-minute dance-play, about a young man who enlists in the military t…
NEW YORK " Sunday night, we will finally get the answer to a tense theater season cliffhanger: Will the Kennedy Center win its first Tony Award in 15 years? We already know that Washington's…
Round House Theatre, one of the region's popular mid-size theater companies and an arts anchor in Montgomery County, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ryan Rilette as its producing a…
Round House Theatre, one of the region's popular mid-sized theater companies and an arts anchor in Montgomery County, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ryan Rilette as its new produc…
As business plans go, Scott's will surely never make the case study annals of Wharton. Hanging out a shingle for a company that writes suicide notes for those seeking grammatical assistance …
As inexhaustibly original as the animated series that inspired it, the kookily brilliant "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" is the sort of once-in-a-blue-moon show that stays stuck in your br…
If there was a road map for breakout theatrical success, "The Normal Heart" misplaced its copy. Larry Kramer's much-admired, alarm-bell-ringing 1985 drama about the spread of AIDS through th…
Tired of the same old summer routine: the sweltering afternoon by the pool, the mosquito armada at the picnic, the endless crawl to the beach? How about taking a detour from the seasonal hum…
Who in their right mind wouldn't haunt the library stacks if Kate Baldwin were assigned to the checkout desk? Teamed with Burke Moses in Arena Stage's endearingly melodic revival of "The Mus…
In red satin jacket, polished fingernails and preening self-regard, Tom Carman flutters convincingly onto the Artisphere stage as Crow, a renegade singer come to dethrone an aging rock-and-r…
Empty calories don't seem such a misguided nutritional choice when they're served to you by a force like Erin Weaver, the vitamin-enriched musical star of Signature Theatre's "Xanadu," a jau…
Click, click, click. That's the precision with which practically every jubilant act of irreverence registers in Shakespeare Theatre Company's deliriously happy-making version of Carlo Goldon…
Presumption of funniness is not exactly a capital offense. But it's a performer's crime nevertheless, a rookie sort of miscue that helps to sink Folger Theatre's ill-conceived spaghetti-west…
In another sign of Washington's growing influence as a theater town, the Kennedy Center's highly regarded revival of "Follies" garnered an impressive eight Tony Award nominations Tuesday, ma…
The Kennedy Center's production of "Follies" earned an impressive eight Tony nods, including one for best musical revival, in the nominations unveiled Tuesday morning in New York. The announ…
The last thing you'd ever want, in the forlornly sterile restaurant where the events of Studio Theatre's "The Big Meal" transpire, is for the waitress actually to arrive with your order. The…
Out in the Shenandoah Valley, they make Shakespeare the old-fashioned way. And by old-fashioned, I don't mean stodgy or rigid or by trilling the lines as if every word were an opportunity to…
The characters of Matthew Lopez's engrossing if soberly conventional Civil War drama, "The Whipping Man," gather around a makeshift seder table in the ruins of a stately Richmond homestead t…
NEW YORK " The move to Broadway proves to be an entirely felicitous visibility upgrade for "Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about race and class that had a virtually simu…
NEW YORK " Trusting your gut is an essential guideline in the reviewing business. So if your gut aches as much as mine did all through the rhapsodically silly shenanigans of "One Man, Two G…
What a piece of work is this Telemachus, the Hamlet-like brooder of playwright Jason Gray Platt's modern family tragedy, "Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysseus." Spoiled and sullen, he buri…