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With its pill-dispensing stations and trim, backless sofas, this hospital lounge doesn't look like a stomping ground for cannibals. But cannibals do lurk here, as do space pirates, lizard pe…
LONDON"The crowds lining up nightly outside the Noel Coward Theatre on St. Martin's Lane for last-minute cancellations attest to the remarkable journey of "Photograph 51," Anna Ziegler…
NEW YORK"We all know exactly what elixir we've come for. And thankfully, the appropriate doses of delight are dispensed from the stage of Broadway's Marquis Theatre all through "On Your F…
It doesn't get much more hopeful than this. New theater company, new play, new playwright. A work that challenges the conscience, in a part of town that is changing rapidly, on a topic cryin…
NEW YORK"And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of "King Cha…
The Women's Voices Theater Festival is winding down, and by luck of the scheduling draw it is circling back to two troupes that produce women's scripts all the time. Laurel's Venus Theatre a…
"Winners and Losers" is a competitive dialogue between two buddies who rank things into two inflexible categories: winners and losers. Microwaves? Winner, says James Long, calling his applia…
NEW YORK"And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of "King Cha…
NEW YORK"The Roundabout Theatre Company unveiled two new productions this week. One was powerful. The other starred Keira Knightley.We'll get shortly to the exquisitely observed "The Humans,…
It is a relief to report that there has been no ruinous gentrification of Avenue Q. It was back in 2003 that the thoroughfare gave its name to a gleefully irreverent, puppet-enhanced musical…
If you're ever asked to name a playwright who can really spin a yarn, say "Conor McPherson." The Irish dramatist has been unwinding spellbinders for two decades now " ghost tales, morality p…
Is Google making us stupid? Maybe, maybe not. But the wired lifestyle has certainly dimmed the acumen of Amelia, Barnaby, Chantal and Dagobert, the principal characters in Emilio Williams's …
"Girlstar" is really something. What that something is " well, your guess is as good as mine.Musical thriller? Musical spoof? Romantic tweener bait? Unfortunate mishmash?Maybe, maybe, maybe …
If you have Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche playing a classical heroine, why resist turning your Greek stage tragedy into a big screen epic?Acclaimed Belgian director Ivo van Hove's e…
In the aftermath of his shocking dismissal in December after 18 years as artistic director of Theater J, Ari Roth doggedly embarked on plans for the next chapter of his career: a new Washing…
Sarah L. Kaufman is the dance critic of The Washington Post. This article was adapted from her new book, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life" (W.W. Norton, Nov. 2, 2015). It is a …
Verve, panache, moxie: Those are some of the words conjured by Donna Migliaccio's bright, sassy style. It's a signature she has forged on musical theater stages for more than two decades, in…
Arena Stage has singled out a substantial American character to put on the stage in Erma Bombeck, the popular newspaper columnist and best-selling humorist who was a wry presence from the 19…
"I tell you " you can't imagine what the thing is really like!" gasps a man who has disappeared into a cavern in "Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite," a nostalgic, small-scaled creep show that aims …
As impressionable teenagers, BeBe Winans and his sister CeCe traveled a remarkable God-focused path, from a gospel-infused Pentecostal home in Detroit to the stage of a Christian television …
No doubt Northern Irish playwright and Belfast native Rosemary Jenkinson knows her political infighting, the loyalists and Protestants and paramilitary subgroups/crime rings that apparently …
A big tip of a tropical-fruit-bedecked hat to Pointless Theatre for its distinctive and ebullient contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Many young theater companies might quai…
Ten months after firing longtime artistic director Ari Roth, Theater J has named Adam Immerwahr to replace him. Currently the associate artistic director of McCarter Theatre Center in Prince…
NEW YORK " When Belgian stage director Ivo van Hove approached French actress Juliette Binoche about doing the Greeks, he told her he had a hankering for "Medea."Binoche, not so much."I was …
What exactly is it that the seven companies behind the Women's Voices Theater Festival have in common? Marketing. And Margaritas.A monthly meeting over drinks has been an informal standard o…
