23 stories by "Rebecca J. Ritzel"
The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham Lincoln's death.
The school, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon more than three decades ago, told parents that the closing was related to financial issues.
Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick have come a long way from their beginnings in Christian rock, but they're glad to be creating a family-friendly musical comedy.
Christopher Massimine found success as a theater executive in New York and Utah, but now he faces questions about errors on his résumé, a fictitious degree and a phony award.
The former official, Sophia Kim, was a comptroller of the Kirov Academy of Ballet, a school founded in 1990 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Ari Roth founded Mosaic Theater Company after being fired by Theater J. He resigned under pressure after complaints from staff.
"When I think, 'Where would I retire?,' I think, 'Maybe I'll retire to Virginia.'"
The less-successful musical numbers fail worse in D.C. given some gut-wrenching events in the news.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 megamusical Evita opens with a funeral. Spoiler alert: The first lady of Argentina, whose role has famously been sung by both Patti Lupone and Madonna, has died. W…
Not since Gossip Girl went off the air has Washington been entertained by such young, attractive, well-dressed backstabbing New Yorkers.
Fiasco Theater, a small troupe that specializes in co…
The Camp David Accords might never have been signed were it not for President Jimmy Carter's golf cart. In Camp David, the world premiere play at Arena Stage, there's no way for characters t…
Review of the Broadway-bound musical If/Then from Washington City Paper. This is not just the perfect vehicle for Menzel; it's the perfect vehicle for the fans hurtling towards middle age w…
Say you're a musical-theater writing duo trying to recover from the devastating failure of your first Broadway flop. What do you do? You write a musical about a former boy band star trying t…
Throughout the play Becky Shaw, characters travel between Boston, Providence, New York, and Richmond. That seems plausible, but to look around at the audience in Round House Theatre one nigh…
Interested in seeing a show this month? Hoping for one that will force you to contemplate the consequences of infidelity and the temporal nature of life, plus be entertaining to boot? Then y…
The less theater you've seen in D.C. in recent years, the fresher you may find Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's four-man retelling of the Bard's tragedy"set not in ancient fair Verona bu…
Tourism Ontario could not have planned a better theatre marketing campaign if it tried.
If the weather cooperates Tuesday night at Wolf Trap, temperatures will be warm at nightfall, with a waft of a breeze. The curtain will rise, and the spotlight will shine on a not-so-tall bu…
We'll never know what Michael Kaiser planned to say in his Tony Awards acceptance speech, but thank goodness the Kennedy Center's president still has his Huffington Post column. And thank go…
For the first 30 minutes of the world-premiere play Hum, Theater Alliance challenges Synetic Theater in the race to create the best dialogue-free drama in D.C. There's well-crafted choreogra…
Since the founding of Washington, it has been tres facile to sense the French influence in the circles, grids and diagonals bequeathed by Pierre L'Enfant, and in recent years, it seems no of…
The night was billed as the premiere of "Two Othellos," meaning, presumably, that Saturday's performances at American Dance Institute in Rockville would also feature two Iagos. But just hour…
Come Fly Away is perfect for anyone frustrated by bad dancing in a musical or bad acting in a ballet. In the touring version of the 2010 Broadway show now at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower …
