And They Could Sing, Too By TERRY TEACHOUT
Demo recordings originally made for rehearsal purposes in which composers can be heard singing and playing their own songs were recently released.
Demo recordings originally made for rehearsal purposes in which composers can be heard singing and playing their own songs were recently released.
In a re-imagining of the classic play "Our Town," director David Cromer creates a performance that doesn't feel like a performance at all.
D.C.'s Arab cultural festival draws on 22 countries; Saddam as Richard III
A new consulting program at the Kennedy Center keeps Michael Kaiser and his staff busy.
Despite being sincere and sentimental, and nicely staged and designed, "The Story of My Life" is an over-earnest dud.
"Ruined," which chronicles the terrible realities of Congolese life, leaves no doubt that Lynn Nottage is one of the best playwrights we have.
Robeson's basso profundo, one of the most beautiful sounds in the history of recording, is captured on a seven-disc boxed set from EMI Classics.
Shakespeare & Company has contrived to turn Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates" into a poignant slice of urban life that also happens to be drop-dead funny.
After a long-overdue renovation, the reopening of the storied Ford's Theater kicks off a four-month, city-wide celebration of Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial -- curse or no curse.
Kansas City Repertory Theater has given "The Glass Menagerie" a production worthy of the play's beauty and truth.
What's absent from London's new show "Thriller Live" is any backstory about the elusive King of Pop.
In California, John Guare's revival of "Six Degrees of Separation" is one of the strongest American plays of the postwar era.
Since appearing in Bergman's final productions, Jonas Malmsjö has gone on to become one of Sweden's leading classical actors, culminating in his acclaimed portrayal of Hamlet.
"Loving Leah" is an absorbing and preposterous tale of love, marriage, faith and some highly unlikely complications of religious observance.
The Florida Repertory Theatre's "Dancing at Lughnasa," is a stirring production whose beauty arises from the fact that it is performed by a near-permanent ensemble of actors.
A revival of 'West Side Story' bets on a little-known actress from Argentina
A new theater venture aims to link British and American actors
Broadway shuns risk, hires Will Ferrell, Mary-Louise Parker and Jane Fonda; Nathan Lane waits for Godot
Playwrights McPherson and McDonagh are represented on the stages of Chicago and New York by two productions that are excellent in every possible way.
Artist Marc Chagall, who headlines an exhibit at the Jewish Museum, is only one part of a story that enfolds in the 200-plus pieces related to the Russian-Jewish theater.
The best things on the boards are often far from Times Square
Should white directors stage black plays?
Roger Kimball on how Broadway is turning subtle themes into simplistic fare in shows like "Billy Elliot."
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on his craft, his new movie and playing a priest.