NEW YORK"A kosher chef brings his guitar to the podium and strums it as he belts out a two-minute pitch for his new cookbook. The author of a memoir called "The Mental Yentl" tells rap…
Well, kids, sorry to tell you, but the future here in the homeland doesn't look like much fun. Floods, civil wars, invasions by foreign powers, stonings, beheadings. And, oh, yeah, zombies i…
Rodin had a love life to match the tremendous energy of his sculptures. In "Rodin," the Eifman Ballet's vigorous work about the well-favored artist, imagined passions are channeled into two …
When Wesley Taylor wanted a break from the high-pressure New York theater scene, he didn't jet off to an island paradise or a grand European city. He made his escape to Shirlington, Va. " ho…
Jake, you were robbed!I know, I know, this doesn't rise to the level of war crime. It's simply another of those entertainment-world injustices, perpetrated like clockwork at awards-show time…
Quiet stillness can be more powerful than action on the stage. But in a ballet, it takes a good deal of wisdom and trust to rein in the dancing.This was the distinguishing feature of the Sco…
Argentine writer Patricia Suárez-Cohen likes to listen to the Beatles while she's working. The music doubtless provided welcome jolts of energy when she was writing her first musical, "La…
Jake, you were robbed!I know, I know, this doesn't rise to the level of war crime. It's simply another of those entertainment-world injustices, perpetrated like clockwork at awards-show time…
NEW YORK " In the beginning was the word, and that word (inevitably) was posted on Twitter. When God saw that the tweet was good, it begat other tweets, which begat a flock on Twitter number…
It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. But you get a crane-combustion fable in "The Shipment," the bracingly provocative and fun…
From D.C. to Juneau, Alaska, theater professionals across the country are mourning the death of P.J. Paparelli, former associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company.Paparell…
By the time his biggest dance moment arrives, in the dizzying final scene of Broadway's "An American in Paris," Robert Fairchild is pretty drained."That ballet comes at end of the show, and …
'Mister Roberts' Is Refreshing R&R For the World-Weary
The production is sometimes pitched too frantically, a state of affairs that contributes to an unhealthy amount of scenery-chewing. Ramirez's performance, for example, begins just boisterous…
Arena Stage will present an all-American roster of plays in its 2005-06 season, including two world premieres and six revivals.
While the first hour of this three-hour production is by far its finest -- and funniest -- the sure-fire theatrics of Irwin and Turner ensure that it's worth sticking around for the whole 15…
His Dark Comedy's at Arena, And He's as Ornery as Ever By Chip Crews
"With Bush in office another four years I'm supposed to smile?"
You have to wonder, at a time when America is enmeshed in such a controversial incursion overseas, when new stories of what happens to people on and behind the front lines might be particularly relevant, why the theater seems to have gone, well, AWOL.
"Mister Roberts."
Vanishing into the night at intermission Thursday was a good 25 percent of the audience -- the largest exodus I've witnessed at the midpoint of a major Kennedy Center offering.
Signature to Open New Space In '06 With Sondheim Revival
Review by Joe Heim
Patti LuPone's Star Has Dimmed, But Life, and Her Many Roles, Go On
COSTUME DESIGNER Sekula Sinadinovski isn't one for the isolation of the studio.
Falling in love may be too much to ask of an evening with "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," but there are plenty of reasons for falling in like.