31 stories by "The Washington Post"
You've seen the TV show, now see the opera.
Wouk, who said he was never a "high stylist," attracted a mass audience with books that espoused such values as gallantry and leadership under pressure. Leading critics sniffed at his books,…
"It's like a stream of feelings, intuition and joy of discovering things," Varda said of her directing method in a 2001 interview with IndieWire. "Finding beauty where it's maybe not. Seeing…
The Kennedy Center is out with its annual list of honorees who will collect those famous rainbow-striped medals at a glitzy, celeb-studded ceremony and show in December. And (surprise!) seve…
In a new sexual misconduct scandal that could shake the economics of Hollywood in unprecedented ways, Disney said Tuesday that animation chief John Lasseter would be taking a six-month leave…
Halfway through the new Broadway musical "The Band's Visit," a restaurateur in a remote Israeli town sings an aching ballad.
"Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton," the latest documentary from Rory Kennedy ("Last Days in Vietnam"), is partly the life story of Hamilton, widely considered the world's best big…
Since the second half of 1983, when "Cujo," "The Dead Zone" and "Christine" rolled into theaters, one after another, it's been unofficial Hollywood writ that no Stephen King novel, novella o…
Ben Platt, who more than three years ago spoke the words and sang the music of "Dear Evan Hansen" for the first time, going on to win the Tony Award in June for best actor in a musical, will…
As a young woman and into her middle years, Carroll had a career of firsts. The first black actress to win a Tony, for the 1962 musical "No Strings," in which her fashion-model character was…
Best play ' "Oslo"
The wish was to write a truly original show based on a perception Pasek had back in high school, when a student died and his classmates rushed disconcertingly to claim the status -- and atte…
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…
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 …
