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Counting down to Helen Hayes Awards night, May 23rd
The votes have been counted, the spinner awards ordered, hopeful nominees are drafting their acceptance speeches. And somewhere, someone knows who will take home one or more of the 47 Helen Hayes...
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Hedda Gabler, an emotional steeplechase, at Studio Theatre (review)
Henrik Ibsen shocked the world with the psychological portrait of a female “monster of unsexed depravity” in his Hedda Gabler and cemented his reputations as the father of modern drama, in particular...
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Honoring the Helen Hayes nominees: Matthew M. Nielson, Sound Design
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the first in a series highlighting this year’s Helen Hayes nominees:...
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Strindberg’s The Pelican from Arcturus (review)
From Shakespeare to “Arrested Development”, when family and large inheritances mix, things are bound to get messy. Arcturus Theater Company’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s surrealist The Pelican...
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Martin Luther on Trial from FPA (review)
The staging is impeccable, the acting is first-rate, the script is amusing and, to the extent you can say this about a play which has Hitler, Freud, Lucifer and Pope Francis talking to each other,...
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DCTS ticket giveaway: STC’s groundbreaking Taming of the Shrew. Ends Thursday
Update: This contest is closed, but we have another good one for you next week. You’ve probably seen Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew before. Maybe many times before. But we guarantee you’ll...
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Odd couple struggle over art in Bakersfield Mist at Olney (review)
The elite and what writer H.L. Mencken called “the booboisie” clash over what is a genuine masterpiece and the higher purpose of art in Stephen Sach’s uproarious and sneakily thoughtful play...
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Indecent (review): Paula Vogel creates backstage story of Jewish play that...
While Broadway is reacquainting audiences with Shuffle Along, Off-Broadway is opening our eyes to another landmark Broadway show from the 1920s – this one an all-Jewish, lesbian-themed drama that led...
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Churchill, Chekhov, Stoppard, Posner among Studio’s next season
Subscriptions became available today for Studio Theatre’s 2016-2017 season which features Three Sisters, No Sisters, Michael Kahn directing Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard writing on human...
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Honoring the Helen Hayes nominees: Anu Yadav, playmaker and performer
DCTS covers the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the second in our series...
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War of the Worlds (review) from Scena Theatre
The storied 1938 CBS Radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air allegedly created a panic by individuals who believed that the dramatization of a deadly...
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Man in the Iron Mask (review): Synetic Theater speaks
All over the promotional material for Synetic’s Man in the Iron Mask, there is a dire warning: THIS PRODUCTION WILL HAVE DIALOGUE. As if audiences have to be warned of talking actors as much as they...
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Celebrity, Chivalry and Very Bad Manners in Compass Rose’s 2016-2017 season
Compass Rose’s 2016-2017 season will include an acclaimed musical, a play which became an acclaimed musical, perhaps the most acclaimed play of all time, and a play about an acclaimed twentieth-century...
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Honoring the Helen Hayes nominees: Craig Wallace, actor and director
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the third in our series highlighting this year’s Helen Hayes...
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City of Angels (review) at NextStop Theatre a snappy, stylish film noir musical
NextStop Theatre Company’s City of Angels is grand – a swan song to film noir and its backstage action, a gem of a show that won multiple Tony Awards in 1989 including Best Musical. And NextStop has...
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Abbey Theatre’s Plough and the Stars (review)
It is one hundred years almost to the month since the Easter Rising, the insurrection that began the armed struggle of Irish Nationalists against British occupation. It is ninety years almost to the...
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Turn Me Loose Review: Scandal’s Joe Morton in play about Dick Gregory
“Don’t get me wrong, I do care about this country,” Joe Morton as comedian Dick Gregory says in Turn Me Loose. “Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich,...
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Fun Home part of The National’s next season and Hamilton deal announced
When announcing their upcoming season, Washington’s National Theatre also announced a Hamilton tie-in. As with The Kennedy Center’s offer, subscribers to the National Theatre’s 2016-2017 season get...
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Patina Miller at Strathmore gala (review) proves she’s ready for her next...
If that long-promised revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe does come to Broadway this year, the producers could do worse than to put Patina Miller front and center — assuming they can afford her now that she’s...
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All That Fall by Beckett (review) Pan Pan Theatre production is theatrical...
Pan Pan Theatre’s stage production of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall, playing four more times in the Terrace Gallery as part of The Kennedy Center’s Ireland 100 festival, is theatrical...
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