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Washington Ballet to perform Stephen Mills's third Shakespearean adaptation.
After tough luck in D.C., the troupe performed works by contemporary choreographers.
Fans of "Aladdin" on Broadway have gotten their wish " the show's Genie and its leading actors will be sticking around.
The 1963 musical is old-fashioned but easy to warm to.
Motti Lerner's new play, "After the War," explores the depths of alienation in an Israeli family irrevocably divided by the country's near-perpetual state of war. But if the vague and unsett…
Because we're keeping the Women's Voices initiative in mind even though Washington's groundbreaking fall festival is done (and we are, aren't we?), let's wrap our heads around this one mo…
Reeling from his service as a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Motti Lerner felt the need to express his deep misgivings about the conflict publicly. So he gathered 30 of his fellow stude…
NEW YORK -- The first time it struck me as pretty. The second, it just seemed kind of sappy."Bright Star," the twangy new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has moved onto Broadway a…
The young adults in the rock musical "American Idiot" may suffer from alienation and malaise, but they apparently don't have a problem with vertigo. In Keegan Theatre's pleasant if rather di…
When David Grossman's novel "Falling Out of Time," about parents grieving for dead children, came out in 2014, some reviewers suggested that the poetic fable read like a play. Now it is a pl…
The acting in Deirdre Kinahan's "Moment" at Studio Theatre is so sharp it's like seeing a play in a live equivalent of high-def. The drama revolves around a criminal incident that blew a fam…
Musicals just don't get a lot smarter or more sensitive than the loping "110 in the Shade" that opened Wednesday at Ford's Theatre. The 1963 show is simple but bighearted, with an underrated…
At one point in the intense and memorable "1984" by the British ensemble Headlong, a squall of paper swirls through the air. A wary freethinker named Winston, having found a momentary refuge…
NEW YORK -- Exuberance, thy musical name is "She Loves Me."The melodies of this 1963 show by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick sound as sweet and richly evocative as ever in dire…
A Trump rally briefly threatened to break out Tuesday night at the National Theatre in downtown Washington during the normally adorable musical "Annie" as a viewer fleetingly protested the s…
It is the rare police interrogation chamber that doubles as a shadow-puppetry stage. It's a rarer one still that also appears to be located inside a security-directorate meeting hall. But a …
Curling up with a good novel, permitting an author to close the door artfully on your world for a spell and open up theirs, gradually, to you " that's one of the pleasures of solitary, liter…
NEW YORK -- Self-consciousness seems a strange affliction for an actress. But Laura Benanti used to experience such a profound case of it at the end of a performance that curtain calls becam…
Are you more at ease talking into a device or on social media than speaking face to face with a loved one? Are you more frank when the chat is virtual? The sly new play "Marjorie Prime" will…
Lin-Manuel Miranda returned Monday to the room where it happened. And, at the behest of first lady Michelle Obama, he brought the entire cast of his mega-hit musical, "Hamilton," to that roo…
Although he has always been fond of this country's drama, Ivo van Hove " a European vying for the mantle of America's hottest stage director " never felt any affinity for one of our most rev…
NEW YORK -- It isn't only war and weather that leave devastation in their wakes. The aftermath of intimacy, too, can be a brutal, obliterating ordeal, especially if -- as David Harrower's sc…
NEW YORK -- The year is 1979, and a porn-stachioed sleaze named Tony (Roger Bart) is packing his rat trap of a floating casino with enough comedy material to fill a Zucker brothers mov…
Benjamin Scheuer is a mesmerizing guitarist, and he tells his story strumming in his solo show "The Lion." Scheuer pours his heart into his own coming-of-age tale, dealing with a difficult d…
The empowerment of Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" doesn't date, and the simmering verbal style of this 1976 "choreopoem" will land …
