1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
Diana Son's "Stop Kiss" plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a brutal ha…
The other night, while at a play
A woman in a crafty way,
Came up to me and with some cheek
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"White folks can't stand unhappy Negroes, so laugh," the veteran black actress instructs the young black actor in "Trouble in Mind," Alice Childress's wise and extraordinarily winning comedy…
Feeling invisible is the one torment no theater person can endure. So it has long driven inhabitants of Washington's stage world batty that, when outsiders are told the city has a lively per…
Studio Theatre embarks on an exciting new path with "Lungs," a bracingly dramatic walk through the thicket of couples communication that proves an auspicious start to the company's ambitions…
NEW YORK " One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up " on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony eligi…
The versatile Chicago and Washington actress E. Faye Butler recounted a call she received to audition in New York for a British stage version of "Gone With the Wind." "Faye, there's a famous…
For a fleeting instant, you grasp the potential in the new, extensively rewritten version of playwright Karen ZacarÃas's comedy of modern literary manners, "The Book Club Play." The merry…
Using minimal theatrics and the testimony of real soldiers, "ReEntry" creates a stage document about an aspect of military life that few of us back home ever fully understand: the trials of …
The saddest moment on a Washington stage this year also happens to be one of the most exhilarating. It occurs in Act 2 of "A Bright New Boise" " playwright Samuel D. Hunter's unsparing accou…
Amid the Babel of voices in Zuccotti Park, Greg McFadden wanted to listen to just one: a voice that might suit his own perfectly. "Let's take a look around," the actor declared, surveying Oc…
What makes Iago seethe? The eternal mystery of his mortal loathing of Othello isn't totally cracked in Folger Theatre's impressive, compulsively watchable staging of the tragedy. But in Ian …
That bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around. "Oklahoma!," the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking as s…
The opening Thursday night of Jez Butterworth's remarkable "Jerusalem" solidifies what looks to be the most competitive Tony race for best play in years.
Measured against his greatest dramas, "Cymbeline" counts as an iffy achievement for Shakespeare, what with subplots recycled from weightier efforts and characters lacking in lightning-bolt i…
NEW YORK - If you're going to spend $65 million and not end up with the best musical of all time, I suppose there's a perverse distinction in being one of the worst.
The thunderous aftershocks of "Black Watch" are not merely those set off by the realistic sounds of mortars and rockets exploding in the convulsed soil of Iraq. No, the jolts delivered in th…
Two mothers fighting over one son seems reliable arithmetic for dramatic fireworks. When one of the women is Palestinian and the other Israeli, the results are mathematically devastating.
