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Allegiance Review: George Takei, Lea Salonga in Musical about...
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known as Sulu in Star...
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Edward Gero talks about McPherson’s The Night Alive
Before donning Victorian garb once again as Ebenezer Scrooge for the annual “ghost story of Christmas,” A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre, Edward Gero has unfinished business in Dublin. The Irish...
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A sumptuous Secret Garden at Center Stage (review)
Many women of a certain age can recall when their mothers pulled down a volume of The Secret Garden, usually illustrated, from the book shelf and said “Here, I think you will like this. I know I did...
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The Apple Family Cycle: Sorry and Regular Singing at Studio Theatre
Remember when Election Day actually meant something? In my family, the adults ran to the polling place first thing and at night my grandfather threw a results party with shucked oysters and beer for...
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Henrietta continued, with Henri IV, Part 2 from Brave Spirits
There’s a question plaguing Hollywood today when it comes to wildly successful and praised new works: should we make a sequel and can it possibly be as good as the original? And while many blame film...
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It’s a fine twist on Oliver! for Arena Stage
“Contemporary’ may not be the first word when one thinks of classic 1968 Broadway musical Oliver!, but that’s exactly what Arena Stage has delivered in their update of the Dickensian classic. Arena and...
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Misery Review: Bruce Willis’ Broadway debut in faded copy of Stephen King
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s story about a writer who’s imprisoned by a berserk fan. It’s not as good as either King’s novel nor the movie, but it’s likely to appeal to...
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Washington Stage Guild
I am usually a strict adherent to the “No Christmas till after Thanksgiving” edict, but I am happy I broke my own rule and started my holiday season a little early with Washington Stage Guild. It’s a...
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Appomattox at Washington National Opera
Philip Glass has been called by some the greatest living composer. His new work, Appomattox, received a world premiere in its expanded and revised state by Washington National Opera on Saturday. It is...
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Brigadoon casts its spell at Compass Rose
The mystical village of Brigadoon is a blessed place, appearing out of the Scottish Highlands’ mists once every hundred years with its 18th Century innocence and delightfullness intact. Lucky Americans...
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Arthur Miller at 100.Two Revivals: Incident at Vichy
Two separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work: “I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the...
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Arthur Miller at 100.Two Revivals: A View from the Bridge
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller’s most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson in an...
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Brilliant! Guys and Dolls at Olney Theatre Center
Guys And Dolls is playing at Olney Theatre Center! Directing his first show at this venerable venue, the well-known Jerry Whiddon is raising the roof with a brilliant cast that radiates enough energy...
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Love theatre? Here’s your hashtag
Today, November 18, has been declared Love Theatre day and 300+ theatre companies in the UK and elsewhere are celebrating through the live Twitter feed #LoveTheatre. The award winning partnership for...
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Harvey at 1st Stage
Harvey, a great classic of the American theater (it won the Pulitzer in 1944, beating out The Glass Menagerie) now at 1st Stage in McLean, is a story in which the hero, Elwood P. Dowd (Jonathan Lee...
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Exploring six degrees of Jay O. Sanders: Unexplored Interior playwright’s...
“It’s like Kevin Bacon,” Jay O. Sanders said to me. You see, it seemed as if any name that came up during my conversation with the actor-turned-playwright could be traced by Sanders to some connection....
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A magical Pericles at Folger Theatre (review)
Flute, fiddle, and guitar sounds emanate from a corner tucked in the wings of the Folger stage setting up a kind of folk music-and-theatre production style. Suddenly the stage world grows dark, and...
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A lavish Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella at The National. (review)
In the theater, when something you love is done well, there’s a sense of euphoria as you leave: “thank goodness they didn’t mess it up.” That is indeed the case, I am happy to report, with Rodgers +...
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Win 2 tickets to the screening of The Winter’s Tale, with Judi Dench and...
Experience the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, starring Sir Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, captured live from the world famous Garrick...
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X’s and O’s at Center Stage (review)
Full disclosure: I am a theater-loving football fan. It is in my blood. I was almost born at a Baltimore Colts game. I wasn’t supposed to be born until January so my Mom toddled off to a Colts game in...
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