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The grim and striking "Tartuffe" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company strides furiously into the explosive debate about faith and comedy. It's a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifice…
What a difference a friend makes. When we first meet Marjorie Taub, the eponymous Manhattanite in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," she's despondent. As depicted by Susan Rome in Theater J…
Donald Hicken never intended to become a drama teacher. He was an actor, then a props master and then a jack-of-all-trades theater guy who remembers that day in the early 1970s when the arti…
The grim and striking "Tartuffe" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company strides furiously into the explosive debate about faith and comedy. It's a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifice…
What a difference a friend makes. When we first meet Marjorie Taub, the eponymous Manhattanite in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," she's despondent. As depicted by Susan Rome in Theater J…
NEW YORK""Bombshell" lives!Well, kind of.Less a musical-for-television than a musical-made-up-for-television, "Bombshell" existed as 20-odd numbers scattered across 32 episode…
A satirical fantasia works to earnest ends in "Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love," now in a Studio 2ndStage production. Mallery Avidon's 70-minute play paints with some hallucinatory colors, flanki…
When Christopher Wheeldon launched his small, short-lived ballet company in 2007, the idea was to make ballet accessible to a wide audience. Every part of it was designed for maximum audienc…
Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone deserved bett…
NEW YORK"Bravo to the Tony voters, all 700 of them. The four productions named Sunday night as the best of the season were truly deserving. As for the awards show itself, well, everyone…
First things first: it was a big night for "Fun Home," the daring musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel. The play based on the memoir of family life and growing up gay took home th…
NEW YORK " "Fun Home," an emotionally searing musical about a gay woman's sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family, walked away with Sunday night's most coveted award, best musical…
As far as infomercials go, this evening's Tony telecast was pretty painless. The goal was crystal clear, as always: Showcase the musicals! Even shows barely (or not) nominated " "Gigi,…
Even with Kristin Chenoweth popping out from under a giant hoop skirt worn by co-host Alan Cumming, the first hour of the Tony Awards has shaped up to be one of the least wince-worthy in mem…
Our first thought while watching the 2015 Tony Awards? We didn't tune in to see Alan Cumming's knees. Cummings' short trousers weren't a great look on the red carpet, where Sting (whose m…
Don't think of summer as theater's cooling-off period. Nowadays there's too much heat on too many stages to consider it the slow season. For more evidence that July and August aren't time to…
An enormous poster of the movie "Casablanca" looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster d…
Don't think of summer as theater's cooling-off period. Nowadays there's too much heat on too many stages to consider it the slow season. For more evidence that July and August aren't time to…
Summer turns us toward whatever is cool, light and airy. Dance floats to the fore as humanity's palliative to heat and heaviness. Just as dancers seem to defy gravity, you may well fly along…
"Newsies" flopped at the multiplex in 1992, so nobody could have guessed that the live- action Disney movie musical about scrappy street urchins would someday become a Broadway hit. After al…
It hardly seems fair. Jeb, Misa and Emilio are dealing with a blizzard that has descended on Minnesota. They also are grappling with the meaning of life and death: They have, after all, met …
When the Tony Awards nominations were announced in April, Washington theater audiences had good reason to be disappointed. Two highly touted musicals that transitioned from the Kennedy Cente…
Thornton Wilder's experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane "Ubu Roi" scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are being…
Thornton Wilder's experiments were gentler than those of the French wild man Alfred Jarry, whose manic and profane "Ubu Roi" scandalized Paris and prefigured Dada in 1896. Both men are being…
Lucy Kirkwood's "NSFW" may not be deep but it is bright, which makes it a good mirror to the men's and women's magazines it attacks.Doghouse, a London "lads mag," inadvertently publishes a t…
