The legendary, indispensable (and greatly lamented by me) Circle Theatre was a movie house famous for its double features. The program changed every two or three days. As an adolescent, I sp…
To tell the truth, The Truth is a thoroughly delightful evening. The play is hilarious, clever, and insightful. That said, I think I would have admired it much more if it wasn't also so deri…
The Deep Blue Sea is a wonderful play by Terence Rattigan, with a wonderful lead role for a woman. Helen McCrory is a wonderful actor who takes full advantage of the opportunities the par…
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins is true; it’s strange; it brings up a lot of interesting questions about the intersection of money and the arts; and it is now a movie. In fact, it…
Since the death of Zelda Fichandler on July 29th, there have been numerous tributes to the woman, her accomplishments, and her great and important legacy. All are well-earned and thoroughly …
Shakespeare's Globe has brought a wonderful The Merchant of Venice to The Kennedy Center for an unfortunately too-brief stay. Jonathan Munby's production is powerful, smart, handsome, melodi…
On Monday next, June 20th at 7 pm, a memorial will be held at Source Theatre. 1835 14th St., NW. for Keith Parker. The long-time Literary Manager at Source Theatre Company, K…
Sunday morning, most of us woke up to the dreadful news about the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Sunday is a day off, of course, for a lot of people. For others, it’s a wo…
"This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen," speaks the Fool in King Lear. The action of The Dresser takes place over one night before, during, and after a performance of that ven…
"I have a long history with the show," Brent Barrett told me. The extremely busy musical theatre actor, with an impressive (and international) resumé, begins previews next week playing Geor…
What's it going to be like this year? That was a question in the minds of many in the theatre community as last night's Helen Hayes Awards ceremony approached. For nearly 30 years, the templ…
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 th…
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 almos…
"It just all sort of fell in place. The perfect storm." Fletcher McTaggart was telling me how he landed the title role in Martin Luther on Trial. Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA), the Ne…
"This is my first role in a Tennessee Williams play, but it's true that I've been told that I should play Blanche since I was thirteen. God knows what that means. But, having played him now,…
"That play and that experience " what’s that lovely word? Seminal." Actor Kryztov Lindquist was talking about Equus. Thirty-three years ago, at Source Theatre Company on 14th Street, L…
"If you didn't witness it in person, it's difficult to grasp what it really was. That's something I'm trying to wrestle with in this piece." I was speaking to Ed Dixon, who wrote and is perf…
A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder begins with a disclaimer, in the form of a song called "A Warning to the Audience." The ensemble, posed in an Edward Gorey-esque tableau, let's us kn…
Shortly after my twins (now three and a half) were born, I approached DCTS about writing for the site. Since I had been so closely associated with WSC Avant Bard and a few other local compan…
"Running a theatre company is always challenging. That aspect never goes away, and it doesn't get easier with time." In October, while in New York City, I sat down with Joshua Morgan and tal…
“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 Sand…
"Made in Brooklyn…Bound for Broadway" is the cabaret performance by Randy Graff that played Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater as the most recent entry in its Barbara Cook Spotlight series. …
Mosaic's Triple Launch: New Company, New Playwright Jay O. Sanders, and New Play, Unexplored Interior Jay O. Sanders is an actor. After a long, varied, and busy career on stage, on TV, and i…
Juliette Binoche, the movie star who won an Oscar in the 90s for The English Patient, plays the title role in the new production of the Greek tragedy Antigone, which began a short (through O…
You might not expect a highlight of a cabaret concert to include the singer passing off her mic to the piano player, revealing a row of variously filled Makers Mark bottles, pulling out a pa…