NEW YORK " Rita Moreno is scooting from one broadcast studio to another inside Rockefeller Center, spewing sound bites in English and opinions in Spanish and hawking her new CD as if her car…
The enduring charm of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" has become more of a charm offensive now that it's a full-blown Broadway show. Not to worry, though: Although the 1957 TV special…
You may remember "Akeelah and the Bee" as the smart, feel-good 2006 movie about an 11-year-old girl struggling through her tough L.A. neighborhood to triumph at the national spelling bee. La…
"Kiss Me, Kate" is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company's big, new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out of it …
In a fitting finish for Theater Alliance's "Black Nativity," the last thing drummer Jonathan Livas did during Sunday's opening was knock a cymbal clear off its stand. Top to bottom, Eric Ruf…
About his Broadway aspirations, Steve Martin is unequivocal. "We actually set out to create something traditional, that had a strong melody and a strong story," he said. "We are trying to pu…
"Kiss Me, Kate" is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company's big new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out of it w…
"A nervous romance" was the great tag line for Woody Allen's "Annie Hall," and "an anxious comedy" would nicely fit Stephen Karam's "Sons of the Prophet" at Theater J. The 2012 Pulitzer Priz…
You may remember "Akeelah and the Bee" as the smart, feel-good 2006 movie about an 11-year-old girl struggling through her tough L.A. neighborhood to triumph at the national spelling bee. La…
"Pericles" begins as a so-so play that " presto! " turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre's gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentatio…
The enduring charm of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" has become more of a charm offensive now that it's a full-blown Broadway show. Not to worry, though: Although the 1957 TV special…
"All this rushing around " I feel quite giddy," the evil mastermind Professor Moriarty remarks at one point in "Sherlock Holmes," running at the Warner Theatre through Sunday. The Napoleon o…
Move over, "Shear Madness." After a mind-boggling 28 years as the money-minting chief tenant of a coveted performance space in the Kennedy Center " a uniquely advantageous perch in the world…
Spencer Liff puts bodies in motion under some remarkably high-stress conditions, most prominently for the popular television competition show, "So You Think You Can Dance" " an assignment…
Among the stars of Washington Stage Guild's latest production: a comb, a metal bucket and a tray of cornflakes.Sure, there are also human performers in "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio P…
By the time the Olney Theatre Center's bright, lively new "Guys and Dolls" gets to the jubilant gospel knockoff "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," the night's an easy winner. The musical n…
Sir David Hare is almost certainly the premiere political dramatist writing in English, yet last weekend he slinked through Washington almost unnoticed. Not that it bothered him: By now, the…
ASHLAND, ORE. " The princely title character in "Pericles" sails from country to country, meeting with shipwreck and human villainy, devastating loss and unexpected joy. The version of "Peri…
Sets with walls will block the audience's views when your theater is in the round, so designs in Arena Stage's signature Fichandler work differently, in full-blown and fine-grained 3-D. For …
NEW YORK " And just like that, Ivo van Hove cements his place irrefutably among the most revolutionary theater makers of our time.Because in its elemental economy, its flashes of uncanny�…
If you don't mind "Oliver!" doing drug deals, it's a fine show.The twisted "Oliver!" that opened at Arena Stage Wednesday night keeps a toe in Charles Dickens's London and the rest of its ha…
With apologies to Falstaff, the better part of valor is not always discretion. You have to be glad that Brave Spirits Theatre has flung caution to the wind and staged an almost entirely re-g…
To tackle the direction of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, David Muse, the artistic head of Studio Theatre, had an illuminating thought: Why not ask a five-time Tony Award-winning lighting de…
LONDON " "Why is everyone in the KGB so stupid?" Irina, one of the jailed journalists asks, in Belarus Free Theatre's intense and highly watchable "Time of Women."Pausing from the bowl of…
Food is served and lives quietly fall apart in the incredibly intimate "Sorry" and "Regular Singing," the final installments of Richard Nelson's four-play Apple Family Cycle. Studio Theatre …