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In a new prologue written by David Grimm for Susanna Centlivre's The Gaming Table, Tonya Beckman Ross promises verbal virtuosity and laughs. It is a promise that is kept in spades by Folger Theatre's sparkling and witty production of this Restoration era comedy. A real treat comes from Emily Townley who turns in what so far is.... 
The Bay Theatre Company's production breathes genuine life into the pages of the heartfelt text. As the piece tumbles forward, the beautiful black box theatre grows smaller, the way the world does when a good book is in hand, when an honest conversation is taking place, when you find a childhood picture of yourself amongst tax returns and.... 
Our three wisecracking wizards have clearly been gorging their egos on all their own nifty stunts, but their cocky flair turns out to be a blessing. It's fairly entertaining to watch some slight of hand -- and theirs, if nothing revolutionary, is still quite good -- but the real comedy lies in their reaction to our oohs and.... 
There is nothing more thrilling than watching paint dry in Red, the riveting bio-drama by John Logan about the cerebral abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and his determined young assistant. The Tony Award-winning play arrives in Washington in a sublimely detailed and acted production directed by the Goodman Theatre's Robert Falls..... 
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's hormone-drunk Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story of mad children at play in the house of their own hearts, adrift and rudderless in a storm of their passions, laughing and drinking and singing and skating closer to death than they can possibly understand. It is the interpretation one might expect from a director.... 
This rare "just the two of us" evening proves to be a dark night of the soul in Michael Weller's taut Fifty Words, a piercing examination of how in the hell any relationship survives, much less endures. Director Donald Hicken brings out both the vitriol and vulnerability of Jan and Adam, played with bristling force by Megan Anderson.... 
David Emerson Toney agreed to write the book for a children's musical at Adventure Theatre based on Ezra Jack Keats' well loved book "The Snowy Day". But he was stuck. In the book, Peter is excited that school was cancelled because of the snow. "I'm from Cleveland," he told us. "In 17 years [of going to school],.... 
When Sarah (Holly Twyford), the ambitious, chain-smoking photojournalist at the heart of Time Stands Still, returns from assignment in Iraq, she’s broken and battered. Her face and neck are scarred; her leg’s in a cast. Eventually the cast comes off, but the scars don’t. .... 
Amelia is a lyrical and powerful story about a woman's determined quest to be reunited with her enlisted husband who's gone off to fight in the Union army. It is a journey that takes her from a farm in Pennsylvania to the battlefield of Gettysburg and south into the confederate prison of Andersonville in Georgia, an overcrowded, horrific.... 
The touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical, now ensconsed at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a driving, energetic, and oddly appropriate holiday feast for thoughtful theatergoers. Spun off from the eponymous film version, the stage musical has a less oppressive feel than the original. But it still packs an emotional and political punch, particularly in.... 
Miss Cole's Tracy is as bubbly as a fresh Pepsi, and her performance makes you feel like a pint-sized star is born, especially in the hilarity of her struck-dumb rendition of "I Can Hear the Bells," a song about meeting Link for the first time, and the wide-open purity of the show's opening number, "Good Morning, Baltimore," a.... 
"We've been a couple-onstage, mind you-for 25 years," said Mr. King, displaying the drollery and drop-dead timing that has secured him a berth as one of Washington's most beloved comedic actors. "We walk into rehearsal and the first two weeks of work are done since our relationship is already established." Currently, the duo appears as the malaprop-spouting man.... 
The Hub Theatre has done a formidably difficult thing: taking Capra's classic film, lopping an hour off of it, and turning it into a one-actor stage play. The idea that the ultimate story of community could be told by one actor may seem a little challenging, but the production makes an important point: we are all one people,.... 
Toby's Dinner Theatre has the perfect antidote for those holiday blues with their sprightly, toe-tapping new production of White Christmas. Toby's production brings back the romance, the silliness, the occasional sappiness, and perhaps above all the loyalty and solidarity of an America entirely lacking in self-doubt. .... 
Equivocation is a six-course meal of a play ... a magic act. It is, in short, every inch the prize-winning play that it is, and is given a full-out, heart-stopping performance by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Arena Stage..... 
Beautifully directed by Elena Velasco, who also adapted this Cinderella-like story from an American Indian folktale, Rough-Face Girls impressive from all angles; it offers visually stunning performances from beginning to end- the final moments alone are among the most affecting I've witnessed all year..... 
Alex Mills and Natalie Berk are wonderful as the young lovers. Alex Mills brings a fresh, buoyant dewiness to the play and rises to company leading man status in this role. Berk conveys both the tremulous virginal quality and the voluptuous yearnings of a young woman opening to her own sexuality..... 
The principal pleasure is the voices, which embrace Richard Rodgers' key-shifting score vigorously, and with great understanding. Ball, buoyant as a cork in a sea of champagne, graces the music with a surprisingly conversational pace, so that Maria's singing seems phrased almost like dialogue. .... 
Everyman Theatre's sparkling production captures the dry-gin fizz of Noel Coward's dialogue and conjures a bygone world of elegance, bespoke wealth and cruelties ladled on by the caviar spoonful. Miss Hazlett and Bruce Randolph Nelson handle the demands of Mr. Coward's antic repartee with such speed and lightness you'd swear they were to a manor born..... 
Bwarie is perhaps at his best in the show's focal vocal, the monster hit that almost wasn't produced, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," a punchy love-ballad, driven by the addition of a "Chicago"-style brass ensemble. Bwarie begins crooning the song expressively and romantically before kicking it up a notch into the song's memorable chorus-a lesson in calibration.... home | now playing | coming soon | theatre search | tickets | about us
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