Jesus Christ Superstar at Signature Theatre (review)
Christ's last mortal days are a "strange thing, mystifying" in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1970 Jesus Christ Superstar. But as conceived by director Joe Calarco in Signature Theatre's…
Christ's last mortal days are a "strange thing, mystifying" in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1970 Jesus Christ Superstar. But as conceived by director Joe Calarco in Signature Theatre's…
Life flies by, jeering at our measly accomplishments, even as it drags on endlessly, hour after weary hour. Love is elusive and taunting. Loneliness is an ever-present scourge, but company i…
What's more invigorating than one boundary-pushing ballet company? Three! Wednesday's audience at the Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America series was treated to a varied and impressive, th…
Had I not seen Chicago's run at the National Theatre eight years ago, maybe I'd consider the current production at the Kennedy Center great instead of good. But I did, so I don't. The chorus…
A tale of unrequited love is also a meditation on the anguish and ecstasy of art in Hamburg Ballet's exquisite The Little Mermaid. The dance theater tour de force by John Neumeir, the compan…
"These people make me tense," sings Leo Frank early in the dark musical Parade. "It's like a foreign land." If 1913 Atlanta feels alien to Frank, a transplanted New York Jew and the well-edu…
Later this spring, the Washington Ballet will present 20th-century and contemporary works, as well as premieres, by choreographers including Jiri Kilyan, Justin Peck, William Forsythe, Georg…