Stage
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Classic Fare
Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...
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Perpetual Motion
It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...
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Masterpieces
Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...
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Creative Transfusion
With their original blend of high-impact dance, crystal-clear storytelling and keen sense of what entertains, it's hard to imagine being disappointed by anything generated by...
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Comedy and Tragedy
The biggest problem with the farce is that it has become so much part of the high school theatrical trunk. It's a potent mix for...
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Heavy Metal
Although Michael Kahn has an exceptional talent for injecting antique plays with contemporary flair, his take on Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist makes one long...
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Songbirds
Washington, D.C., is a city built on two unstable foundations. The first (and most commented on during the summer swelter) is a swamp, though serious...
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Past Presence
David Dower wants to make one thing perfectly clear about The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an Epilogue. ''It's a new play,'' says the Arena...
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Quality Issues
There are some plays that should come with a warning sticker and Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life, is one of them. If you have...
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Portraiture
Round House Theatre's world premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Picture of Dorian Gray is stylish, sexy and unspeakably cool. Unfortunately, it stumbles thanks to the...
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More than a Cabaret
A musical revue featuring songs from the creators of Chicago and Cabaret? Including standards such as ''New York, New York,'' ''Ring Them Bells'' and ''All...
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Camp Out
For pure niche, low-budget, high-impact entertainment, it would be hard to beat the Washington Shakespeare Company's Camille (A Tearjerker): A Travesty on La Dame aux...
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Zero to Hero
On Oct. 14, 1955, the actor and comedian Zero Mostel was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He was asked if he was...
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Poppy Champlin Confidential
What’s on your nightstand?I got a book, water, my phone, my sucky-suck things for in the middle of the night because I have acid reflux....
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Qomedy Tonight!
Poppy Champlin was frustrated. As a lesbian stand-up comic she was landing the right kinds of gigs -- Dinah Shore Classic, Rosie O'Donnell's cruises --...
