The only thing that catches fire in Arena Stage's disappointing "Anna in the Tropics," the story of a family of cigar makers in sultry, Depression-era Tampa, is the tobacco.
Andrea Martin has charm and timing, but little depth, as busybody Dolly Levi, who's set her cap for Horace Vandergelder.
Jon Klein; Lisa Loomer.
Paul Tetreault, Hoping To Make Happier History On a Famous D.C. Stage
She Replaces Ailing Carroll in Play
Patrick Page: From Scar to Shakespeare
Second item.
Kennedy Center Extends Post to 2011
With Stephen Bogardus.
This "Macbeth" is also confoundingly easy on the nerves: Macblah.
With Kelly McGillis and Patrick Page.
Back at Kennedy Center, Sondheim Standout Is Singing a Different Tune
Blackface Didn't Mask Minstrel's Talent and Pluck
Bert Williams.
The very best you can say about "Dracula" is that you've seen worse.
Notes From Vietnam: The Musical By Jane Horwitz
"One Red Flower."
Some movie stars fought their way to the top, some probably slept their way to the top. Fay Wray, who died Sunday at 96 in Manhattan, screamed her way to the top.
Review: "BECOMING SOMETHING: The Story of Canada Lee."
AS TOM WINGFIELD in "The Glass Menagerie," the final work in the Kennedy Center's four-month "Tennessee Williams Explored" series, Jason Butler Harner recites some of the best-known lines in…
This version of the play is directed by Michael Mayer, who was widely praised a few years back for his staging of another Miller work, "A View From the Bridge." After crossing that bridge, M…
It is to Sally Field's enormous credit that Amanda Wingfield does not plow through the Kennedy Center's exquisite revival of "The Glass Menagerie" like a runaway bulldozer.
This is a self-adoring gasbag of a musical, with a book by Nathan Lane that all but gags on its own gags.