111 stories by "Roger Catlin"
When D.J. Cotrona was sought to star in Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series," the director was tickled by the similarity.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - It's not unusual to see people scurrying around the polished marble of the Beverly Hilton Hotel with luggage in hand. Few of them, however, are carrying Broadway star…
WASHINGTON - When it came time to choose just six U.S. "invention hotspots" for the Smithsonian's new, permanent exhibit "Places of Invention," which opened July 1, Silicon Valley was a no-b…
Women’s role in the French Revolution is generally remembered to be the image of the fictional Lady Liberty in the famous Delacroix painting, hoisting the tri-colored flag, leading the…
Uncle Vanya is like the relative you once used to see every decade or so at family reunions. Suddenly, he's been coming to every Thanksgiving. And now you might think he's moved in altogethe…
In 1972 a parapsychologist in Toronto tried a strange experiment " get a bunch of people together to make up a fictional historical character and then try to conjure him up, though the power…
To counterbalance the echoey chaos of last year, with the Helen Hayes Awards seemed to have been swallowed up by the party it was having at the National Building Museum, the 31st annual even…
With a handful of plays and still in her mid-30s, Amy Herzog may be a slightly premature candidate for a festival of her work. But Baltimore's Center Stage has forged ahead nonetheless, pres…
The cheery cast of the world premiere G-d's Honest Truth promises, early on, a story that's "Jewish but not too Jewy." Theatre J at the DC Jewish Community Theatre would be the place for suc…
Those who know Guilford's Becki Newton from her glamorous roles on "Ugly Betty" or "How I Met Your Mother" would not immediately associate the blonde actress with either the word "weird" or …
The title of Beth Henley's new play sounds like an order; at least a nudge. Laugh is her effort to move away from her more serious works from the stage that have included the Pulitzer Prize …
There could hardly be a more reverent salute to a great, twisted film than The Pointless Theater's well-wrought Doctor Caligari, which brings the influential German expressionist film to …
The climactic horror at the end of the Washington National Opera's production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites has an added jolt " it echoes too closely the beheadings of nearly t…
Much respect is due the Washington Stage Guild, which has been systematically producing the plays of George Bernard Shaw for more than 25 years. In that time and in five different locations,…
One of the larger mistakes you could make at the theater is to take a youngster to this Frozen at the Anacostia Playhouse. The grim Bryony Lavery play is not only emphatically not the pop…
For the readers of the 19 novels in Michael Connelly's best-selling detective series, Harry Bosch will not be a new name.
"Black lives matter." That’s the succinct message that's arisen from protests of the past several months. It's a rallying cry, too, from August Wilson's powerful King Hedley IIÂ " on…
Back in the 1980s, playwright Barbara Wiechmann used to marvel at the bombed out surroundings of New York's Coney Island. Caught between the ruins of the past and promise of future redevelop…
Humans have a regrettable instinct oftentimes to avoid a recent widow " what can one say to the grieving? How to act? This apparently worked against both Mary Todd Lincoln nearly 150 years a…
When Lucy Biggers of Fairfield graduated from Tulane University two years ago, she looked for the kind of job that would give her a lot of experience.
Bessie Smith is having something of a moment in 2015, 121 years after her birth. The celebrated "Empress of the Blues" is not only the subject of a big HBO bio film this year starring Queen …
The renaissance of timeless animated Disney musicals occurred during the time of "Beauty and the Beast" more than 20 years ago. There followed the golden age of Disney stage musicals based o…
Natsu Onoda Power's The T Party had its start as a workshop in the summer of 2013. As such, you'd expect the return of the work "celebrating gender transformation" at the Forum Theatre in Si…
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the musical Bible story Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber put together before they did Jesus Christ Superstar (and Evita and all the thea…
"Please endeavor to care as much as possible," the program for the Old Trout Puppet Workshop's Famous Puppet Death Scenes at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre implores. And so we shall. The quirky …
