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The high point of director Ron Daniels's enrichingly nuanced "Othello" is one of the tragic hero's lowest. Jonno Roberts's coldly efficient Iago " a Shakespearean psychopath if there ever wa…
Poetry editors around the world would turn green with envy if they knew about the current multimedia performance by Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. In an era that gives short sh…
Laurie Anderson endures as the poster child for performance art, although the wry sprite with spiky hair and an electric violin prefers the term "multimedia artist." The writer-composer-film…
NEW YORK -- He talks a pretty good game, does Erie Smith, in Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie." As luck would have it, so does the actor who portrays him in the finely-etched revival of the 1942 …
Rowdy comedies with a late-nite vibe can be catnip at the summertime Capital Fringe Festival, and why not? It's a free-form, open invitation playground where the main rule is to get off the …
"Road Show" has logged a lot of miles on a long, bumpy journey to Shirlington and the cozy confines of Signature Theatre. Who knew that to smooth out the ride, we've been waiting all this ti…
The eponymous heroine of the early-17th-century play "The Maid's Tragedy" could teach Ophelia a thing or two about rejection. Like Hamlet's ex, Aspatia of Rhodes sees her relationship with a…
NEW YORK -- So that's what he meant.Back in 2008, when he accepted his first best-actor Tony Award, for the Broadway revival of "Boeing-Boeing," Mark Rylance distinguished himself w…
Facts on the ground have changed since "The Promised Land" premiered in 2012 at Tel Aviv's Habima Theatre: Israel has stemmed the flow of East African immigrants streaming into its country b…
NEW YORK " While writing "The Humans" " his best play yet " Stephen Karam was striving to be so precise about the space his characters inhabited that he wanted to share it with them. So, at …
A show called "Wise Guys" was announced with fanfare in 1995 as the Kennedy Center commissioned Stephen Sondheim to write a new musical to premiere the following year, opening the 1996-97 se…
NEW YORK -- The challenges they face are so commonplace you could be eavesdropping on Thanksgiving dinner at your cousins': A daughter with a college degree working odd restaurant jobs; a…
Joviality and waggishness may not be traits you immediately associate with the Stalinist secret police. But then you probably haven't met Vladimir, the NKVD operative in John Hodge's play "C…
Edward Gero will forever savor the first words Antonin Scalia ever spoke to him. "I'm not coming to see the play,"  the justice declared that afternoon in the late fall of 2014, as Ger…
Nick Payne's "Constellations" is based on the idea of a multiverse where all the possibilities are always playing out. Guy meets girl, and they're too awkward to hit it off. Or they kind of …
In what may portend a revitalization of links between the Kennedy Center and major British theater companies, the institution on the Potomac will host a short stay this summer of a productio…
Congas and mambos are the dynamic devices by which Moises Kaufman's new Cuban-spiced adaptation of "Carmen" puts its best feet forward. And yet, although this atmospheric version of the Bize…
When soprano Lauren Michelle, in the guise of the hapless, pregnant Irina, begins the opening verse of "Trouble Man," the otherwise stentorian rhythms of "Lost in the Stars" suddenly take on…
The Murderers' Row of talent lined up for the new "Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical" makes it one of the most anticipated premieres of D.C.'s theater season. Moisés Kaufman ("The Laramie …
We knew that Romantic poet Lord Byron was a bad boy, but a sassy rock star? That's how Sam Ludwig plays him in the premiere of "Monsters of the Villa Diodati" at the tiny Creative Cauldron i…
A mortal enemy sure comes in handy. That's one takeaway from "Señorita y Madame: The Secret War of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein," an informative, fitfully comic, double-barreled …
The two simpletons yakking on the job look awfully familiar. Talking about how they are not supposed to be talking, they are Abbott and Costello doing "Who's on first?" Philosophizing as the…
Moments after Thursday's Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders debate ended, MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz whether she thought Republi…
In the second of the three blazingly original playlets that make up Suzan-Lori Parks's "Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3)," a slave serving as aide to his master in the Conf…
Lucky for dance lovers, the spring season beckons with an especially enticing collection of events: ballets beloved and new, masterly works of modern dance as well as experiments to arouse o…
