What I Saw at Capital Fringe
Once more, there were dozens and dozens of shows this year at Capital Fringe, this time in churches in and around Southwest D.C., already being overrun by All-Star Game activities…
Once more, there were dozens and dozens of shows this year at Capital Fringe, this time in churches in and around Southwest D.C., already being overrun by All-Star Game activities…
"Seinfeld" might have been a TV show about nothing, but shows by the Upright Citizens Brigade at Woolly Mammoth literally begin with nothing. The "Four Gorgeous Women!" as they kept…
I had the opportunity to talk to the inventive stage designer David Korins for a piece at SmithsonianMagazine.com. Most of the discussion revolved around his design for the Broadway hit…
The kind of well-worn rock club set designer Matthew J. Keenan creates for the production of Laura Easton’s “The Undeniable Sound of Right Now” at the Keegan Theatre is so…
It seemed like a clever in-joke when the first lobby announcement at the Shakespeare Theatre Company began, “We appreciate your patience…” It was opening night for Druid’s production of Samuel…
For being the centennial of Ingmar Bergman’s birth, there seems to be very little evidence of the Swedish director's work around. It's hard to find even his best known films;…
The Kennedy Center kicked off its multidisciplinary contemporary cultural assault with something thought to embody the approach, Taylor Mac's “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (1776-2016).” Had the cabaret history…
The comedian Nimesh Patel was in town this week, playing the Improv. His first D.C. show, he says, came in opening for Michael Che at the old LivingSocial on H…
I had Sir Tim Rice on the line the other day, to discuss the restaging of "Chess," which he created with two members of Abba. It premieres at the Kennedy…
It will take biographer Robert Caro five volumes to complete his portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson, so it’s no surprise that there’s a second LBJ play from Robert Schenkkan. His…