You could write a Broadway musical about how Fantasia became the star of a Broadway musical. Invited by a producer of The Color Purple to see the show, she had no inkling that the evening would end at a dinner, at which he would offer her the leading role.
Shohreh Aghdashloo Speaks Up for Justice
Things are looking up for the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive, a nonprofit group that makes video recordings of professional theater for posterity and for use by acting student…
When the misguided monarch presents his daughters with the keys to his kingdom in director Robert Falls's sensational, Slavic "King Lear," it's as if they unlock the gates of hell.
Hayes Award-Winner Is Remembered For Throwing Himself Into His Roles
The Entertaining Life Of Gypsy Rose Lee in 2 Revealing Portraits
Mr. Marks, nominated five times for the prestigious Helen Hayes Award, won in 1990 for his lead role as a potbellied handyman in Deborah Pryor's black comedy "Briar Patch" at the Arena Stage.
Despite a Smaller Role in Culture, The Show Goes On For Broadway Albums
Watered-Down Noël Coward Adaptation Is Too Wispy To Be Good
David Emerson Toney took the lemons-into-lemonade route.
After 35 Years, Memories Are Fuzzy, Warm for Blue Sky Puppet Theatre
Folger Smartly Lets Stoppard's Gifts Shine
Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company's artistic director, believes "Design for Living" is less droll than some of Noël Coward's other works. It is, Kahn finds, about real relationshi…
It might be surprising that in 2009, women are still having to grope their way to the power seat in an artistic field such as theater.