Review: Follies at curtainup.com DC
-Bernadette Peters fillig the cavernous Eisenhower Theater is filled with her clear-as-a-bell voice is one of many delights of this reviva
-Bernadette Peters fillig the cavernous Eisenhower Theater is filled with her clear-as-a-bell voice is one of many delights of this reviva
At at time when bad things keep happening to good people, you could do worse than watch mean schemes crash, a villainess turn heroine, and a potential victim really turn into a lucky guy. .
The best thing about Jonathan Marc Sherman's play now part of the Public's wonderfully affordable LAB series is that Bob Dishy, who was in the Williamstown premiere, is again on board
urtainup's critic found her 3-hour visit with Shakespeare's tragic brainchild dressed in Hitchcock's noir clothing both exhausting and exhilarating. It's been extended to June 25th
Daniel Beaty's first full-length musical clearly speaks from the heart,. . .
thisl-oving and occasionally lusty production f makes the nearly 3 hours spent at the Freud Playhouse a kick in the breeches. . . .
Lynn Nottage's clever script is full to the brim with acting opportunities, hilarious scenes and imaginative stagecraft, all of which are fully realized under Joe Bonney's direction. . .
Happily, this British transfer doesn't get swallowed up in the cavernous Harvey Theater and Derek Jacoby's Lear is unforgettable.
Ronan Noone's black a comedy paints an unflinching portrait of a contemporary American heartland that sustains itself with shoddy dreams, frayed moral values and with delusions of grandeur .…
Moliere is duly honored by the crispness and cleverness of David Ives' couplets and the company of farceurs who appear entirely respectful to the genre to which they are showing an alliance …
Donna Murphy's terrific performance can't overcome the fact that this show's too sketchily constructed libretto is a let down even if you've been maneuvered into shedding a few tears
The Frog and Peach Company adds to its Shakespeare Oevre . . .
a rate chance to see two minor early David Mamet plays.. . .
As the anti-heroic Johnny "Rooster" Byron is a Pied Piper for the teenaged children of the conventional home owners near his outlaw dwelling, so his interpreter, Mark Rylance, is also the Pi…
You don't want to mess with no-nonsense, gutter-mouthed Sister Jamison Connelly, as played by Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo's occasionally gripping but also gratuitously lurid new play
to paraphrase Albert's exultant "What a team we make! Albert and Joey together for ever" . . . What a team the people involved in this unique show make! I'll remember it for ever -- and so w…
this modern twist on Alice's familiar journey is only fitfully amusing and certainly never whimsical.. . .
Yasmina Reza's hit premieres in LA with original Broadway cast
The Acting Company adds a Chaplinesque twist to Shakespeare's farce . . .
This is essentially a plot-less, character-driven play about a notably incompatible married couple, trapped in a surreal-existential world of their own making.
Kimberly Faye Greenberg doesn't look anything like Fanny Brice but she delivers her songs in a similar lusty belt and tosses out quips with offhand charm
With John Douglas Thompson as the tragic protagonist, the dramatic equation of the work has shifted significantly.
There's nothing terribly wrong with this musical, but neither is there anything terribly right.
If the name Sharr White doesn't ring a bell, don't let that keep you from buying a ticket to see his first New York world premiere,
Havey Fierstein is a lovable Albin and Christopher Sieber a perfect Georges