Backstage: Where 'To Be' Is the Question By Jane Horwitz
Construction Delays Impact Washington Shakespeare's Relocation
Construction Delays Impact Washington Shakespeare's Relocation
Audiences, Including a Former Hostage, Connect With Young Companies' Revivals
Inspired by 'Vagina Monologues,' Playwright Takes On Sexual Taboos in the Arab World
As set designer, Crowley has a glorious eye, a talent he's demonstrated on projects as diverse as "The History Boys" and Disney's "Aida." As for his skills as a director: Did we mention that…
RSC Offers Blunt Talk About Voicing Now-Taboo Hatreds
The bad news is that Signature Theatre is delaying its move into its new space in the Village at Shirlington almost five months, until early next year, because construction is behind schedule.
The good news is that because Signature has to juggle its lineup, it has added "The Witches of Eastwick," a musical from producer Cameron Mackintosh that was given a splashy production in London but is being reworked as a more intimate show for Signature.
Theater to Focus On Relationships, And Will Premiere Three New Works
Broadway legend Barbara Cook and mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne will inaugurate the next season at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with a joint concert in September.
David Hare Imagines a Provocative Portrait Of the White House in the Run-Up to Iraq
A premise this flimsy -- one asking for your Joblike forbearance of jokey references to the 1980s -- requires two crucial elements this show does not have: a corker of a score, and a leading…
Playwright Wole Soyinka Is Driven by His 'Overactive Sense of Right and Wrong'
In a major boost to its role as an incubator of new musicals, Signature Theatre is receiving $1 million from a New York benefactor to create three original full-length productions that will …
"Lestat's" contribution to art and equality is demonstrating that a gay vampire with a two-octave range can be just as dull as a straight one.
Playwright Alan Bennett has pulled off that rarest of feats, a comedy of ideas both devilishly entertaining and true to the heart.
They do gas on in the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic-length retelling of "The Canterbury Tales." And we're not just talking about the dialogue. It's nothing short of astonishing how much f…
Well, she gives it the old college try -- and that is all she appears capable of.
How Did the RSC Pull Chaucer's Sprawling Work Together? Oh, There Are Tales to Tell.