89 stories by "The Washington Post"
How do you write a musical about the intense, bitter, lifelong struggle between two celebrated New York business titans " who never met?
The Oscar-winning writer and executive producer expressed shock when the topic of diversity and gender equity came up during the Writers Guild Festival in Hollywood.
Broadway productions of "Waitress" and "Sweeney Todd" are incorporating serving pie and pierogi to members of the audience during each performance.
A community orchestra performance, a new work from an emerging playwright, art therapy for a returning veteran, local library classes in Braille, free standardized-test preparation, and Bert…
"Kong: Skull Island" is a big, noisy B-movie infused with moments of wit and sprightly visual sophistication, anchored by what surely must be the most enormous version of King Kong since the…
In what is most certainly the most shocking moment in Oscars history, Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner for best picture at the end of the night, awarding the trophy to "La La Land" wh…
In the 37 years since he founded his dance company, Mark Morris has been a dancer, a choreographer and even a conductor, on occasion. Now he is taking on a new role, for the Mark Morris Danc…
When Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's "La La Land" won nearly universal praise from critics late last year as a delightful vestige of classic Hollywood musicals, you could practically feel the …
Denzel Washington delivers a leonine, devouringly powerful performance as one of American theater's most imposing patriarchs in "Fences," a classic of contemporary dramatic literature that h…
Christmas is one of the busiest moviegoing days of the year, and not just because many families need a two-hour break from each other. Some of the year's best, most exciting films come out a…
By Peter Marks, The Washington Post It’s musical theater geekdom, for the win. That’s right, all you show tune skeptics, you who snicker at the spectacle of unison-dancing cats o…
Disney films tend to follow a recipe that includes a hero's journey (either figurative or literal), a sidekick, catchy songs, a villain and a lesson. The studio's latest animated feature che…
For a stretch, actor John Slattery was in danger of permanently playing Handsome Guy, the boyfriend, the date, even the naked lust object.
Several months before Mary Rodgers' death in mid-2014, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, who were busy turning her 1972 young-adult comic novel, "Freaky Friday," into a musical, had the opportunity…
With Disney's confirmation Wednesday that the studio will remake its 1994 classic "The Lion King," the idea that you don't mess with perfection has just been felled in a corporate gorge, if …
Why, one might ask, would Bruce Springsteen need to write an autobiography? Haven't we been listening to it for the past half-century? Hasn't he been telling us his story all along?
Irene Sankoff's and David Hein's musical about events in Gander plays Washington on Sept. 11.
A Springsteen concert is a celebration of community. There's an intimacy associated with seeing those seated near you in complete abandon, and that intimacy fosters friendliness.
Baz Luhrmann's defining aesthetic is unexpected juxtaposition, whether he's mashing up "Time After Time" with Australian ballroom dance competitions, Elton John and the post-Impressionist mo…
The transcendence of the musical "Hamilton" is spiking interest in Sunday's Tony Awards, and demand for tickets to the ceremony is way up.
Clever, amiable and eager to please, "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" is the comedy equivalent of the pop-rap star it satirizes, a bit of stupid-smart silliness that offers plenty of ple…
May the fourth be with you! That's right, it's "Star Wars" Day again - the holiday where fans dust off their best Yoda impressions and geek out about a galaxy far, far away. And just in time…
America was built on the separation of church and state, but what about the separation of state and stage?
"The Path" is a slow but steady new drama from Hulu about a family in Upstate New York that is deeply enmeshed in a self-help movement practiced by Meyerists, a commune with all the tellta…
Think of every trope associated with animated family movies and you'll find them all in "Norm of the North," a thoroughly uninspired story of a polar bear attempting to save his habitat from…
