Patsy Cline is easily the queen mother of country music"her importance to the genre on par with the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Loretta Lynn. She was a pioneer, paving the…
Genius. Fearless. Absolutely fun. Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World is a pop culture junkie's wet dream. And, given the violence, skin, and sexual innuendos, there's n…
Two of the most important awards of the evening received short shrift on the broadcast. The great Broadway actor James Earl Jones received the Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Award at the To…
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UrbanArias pulls off a seemingly impossible task with Independence Eve by Sidney Marquez Boquiren and Daniel Neer, a chamber opera of three scenes with two singers, which deals with ra…
Here are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll learn the c…
In a formidable and diverse program Tuesday night, the New York City Ballet juxtaposed affable athleticism with social and romantic tensions. The former was represented by two Balanchine cla…
Playwright David Ives's mastery of rhymed verse builds on Molière's 17th-century comedy of manners. Together, they will leave your sides aching. The School for Lies is the fourth French col…
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
DCTS writer Susan Galbraith returns to the Prague Fringe festival with Protest by Vaclav Havel, produced by her company Alliance for New Music-Theatre. ————R…
Just announced – Howard Shalwitz will be leaving his position as the artistic head of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a position he has held for nearly forty years, at the end of the 2…
Black rage"internalized, until it's not. Stories that carry like the blues. Language that ricochets like jazz. Penetration into the trauma of the black experience in America. This is the tra…
We may be some years removed from the height of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church and gave Spotlight its turn on the Academy stage. But even if those events are no lon…
A gunshot. Chaos. Followed by shock. And a nation, almost on cue and in sync, let's out a collective wail of grief. But the cries of a lone, new widow displease the gentry surrounding her in…
The big question in Jazz is"where's the music? This world premiere adaptation by Nambi E. Kelley of Toni Morrison's 1992 book isn't meant to be a song-and-dance show, but still it lacks the …
Putting together a satirical musical with nods at classic musicals (Annie, Les Miserables), the works of Brecht and Weill (The Threepenny Opera), and even Fringe theatre and launching it in …
Is it possible to learn something new from a 400-year-old play? Yes, if the play is rich in insight and wisdom; if the production is attentive to detail and willing to take risks; and if the…
One barometer by which you can gauge the impact of a play is by whether it can be interpreted in wildly different ways by different audience members. Woolly Mammoth's production of Taylor…
Nevertheless, she persisted. Persisted, pushed back depression and doubt and the burden of care to accept her legacy of genius. The "she" in this case is not Senator Elizabeth Warren but Cat…
You might be tempted to dismiss Ulysses on Bottles as a niche-appeal "issue play," but this first opening for Mosaic Theater since receiving the Outstanding Emerging Theater Company Aw…
Thanks to the generosity of Creative Cauldron, we can award 15 pairs of tickets to the closing weekend of the new musical Kaleidoscope. From Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory …
An enterprising Everyman Theatre board member calculated there are 152 laughs in Noises Off. Â Surely, he jests. There is easily three times that number in Everyman's gonzo production unde…
How do you know the difference between a story and a lie? According to British spoken word artist Polarbear (aka Steven Camden), a lie is selfish, but a story is a gift. If that is the case,…
"If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that," playwright Tom Stoppard once said. "But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral …