As the curtain rises at the Little Theater of Alexandria’s new British farce, Caught in the Net, the sequel to the hit farce Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney, the audience delights in t…
The ad for the In Series season opener, a Wild West adaptation of Abduction from the Seraglio, has Mozart in a Stetson. And that might be all you need to know about the fun and strangely rev…
The Book of Mormon is the musical that ate the Kennedy Center. Demand for tickets was so large in March it crashed the computer system. Traffic snarled as people stood in line for tickets…
WSC Avant Bard is living up to its name with its strong and ambitious summer offering crossing Shakespeare with the avant garde, Caesar & Dada. In a season when the carefree and slight e…
Another in the “let’s put on a play” tradition of American musicals, “[title of show]” takes a more meta approach: a musical about writing this very musical. Th…
Soprano Marni Nixon speaks about her not-so-secret roles in some of Hollywood's best-known musicalsLong before another Nixon got mixed up with a secret recording in Washington, Marni Nixon w…
The Hampton Years, the new play currently playing at Theater J in Washington, shows the value of highlighting a little known chapter in black history – in this case, the rise of Afr…
Reinventing theater is easier said than done " and easier still said with an expletive. Thus we have Aaron Posner's Stupid F***ing Bird, an adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull that just open…
In a post-apocalyptic world, after the grid's gone dead, people sit around a campfire and tell stories for entertainment. But their tales are not classics of Greek mythology or of literature…
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For centuries, they have been figures of fear and fascination, in their colorful clothes and seemingly carefree lives. And while gypsies, as they are called, have left their mark on society …