Friday, November 27, 2020
Ari Roth founded Mosaic Theater Company after being fired by Theater J. He resigned under pressure after complaints from staff.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMFriday, January 23, 2015
"When I think, 'Where would I retire?,' I think, 'Maybe I’ll retire to Virginia.'”
Linked From Washington City Paper at 03:47PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
The less-successful musical numbers fail worse in D.C. given some gut-wrenching events in the news.
Linked From Washington City Paper at 12:21PMFriday, October 10, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 megamusical Evita opens with a funeral. Spoiler alert: The first lady of Argentina, whose role has famously been sung by both Patti Lupone and Madonna, has died.…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 02:45PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Not since Gossip Girl went off the air has Washington been entertained by such young, attractive, well-dressed backstabbing New Yorkers.
Fiasco Theater, a small troupe that specializes in co…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 02:39PMMonday, April 14, 2014
The Camp David Accords might never have been signed were it not for President Jimmy Carter’s golf cart. In Camp David, the world premiere play at Arena Stage, there’s no way for characte…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 08:26AMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Review of the Broadway-bound musical If/Then from Washington City Paper. This is not just the perfect vehicle for Menzel; it's the perfect vehicle for the fans hurtling towards middle age w…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 08:57AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Say you’re a musical-theater writing duo trying to recover from the devastating failure of your first Broadway flop. What do you do? You write a musical about a former boy band star trying…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 10:59AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Throughout the play Becky Shaw, characters travel between Boston, Providence, New York, and Richmond. That seems plausible, but to look around at the audience in Round House Theatre one nigh…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 10:30AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Last night's untricked-out Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre began almost immediately with prize-giving, and that was mostly what we got: Few distractions, and lots of people talking …
Linked From Washington City Paper at 02:16PMInterested in seeing a show this month? Hoping for one that will force you to contemplate the consequences of infidelity and the temporal nature of life, plus be entertaining to boot? Then y…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 12:14PMThursday, February 14, 2013
The less theater you’ve seen in D.C. in recent years, the fresher you may find Shakespeare’s R&J, Joe Calarco’s four-man retelling of the Bard’s tragedy—set not in ancient fair…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 11:11AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Tourism Ontario could not have planned a better theatre marketing campaign if it tried.
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 12:58PMThursday, June 21, 2012
If the weather cooperates Tuesday night at Wolf Trap, temperatures will be warm at nightfall, with a waft of a breeze. The curtain will rise, and the spotlight will shine on a not-so-tall bu…
Linked From Washington Post at 07:38PMMonday, June 11, 2012
We’ll never know what Michael Kaiser planned to say in his Tony Awards acceptance speech, but thank goodness the Kennedy Center’s president still has his Huffington Post column. And than…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 10:52AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
For the first 30 minutes of the world-premiere play Hum, Theater Alliance challenges Synetic Theater in the race to create the best dialogue-free drama in D.C. There’s well-crafted choreog…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 11:27AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Since the founding of Washington, it has been tres facile to sense the French influence in the circles, grids and diagonals bequeathed by Pierre L’Enfant, and in recent years, it seems no …
Linked From Washington Post at 03:55PMSunday, May 6, 2012
The night was billed as the premiere of “Two Othellos,” meaning, presumably, that Saturday’s performances at American Dance Institute in Rockville would also feature two Iagos. But jus…
Linked From Washington Post at 10:33PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Come Fly Away is perfect for anyone frustrated by bad dancing in a musical or bad acting in a ballet. In the touring version of the 2010 Broadway show now at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower …
Linked From Washington City Paper at 09:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
What lessons to draw from last night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre? There were only two ties—compare that to five in 2011. And no company dominated outright—although…
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