A friend of mine judges Asian restaurants solely on their sweet and sour soup: mess that up and not much else that follows will matter. But deliver a soup that evenly balances the sweetness of duck sauce with the sour of rice vinegar, and right away it’s a good sign that the kitchen knows […]
Archives for February 2016
Answers to your most urgent questions about the Helen Hayes nominations
Last night, theatreWashington released the nominations for the 2016 Helen and Hayes Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement for all professional productions in 2015. We’ve turned the list of 47 categories into a sortable table to help you quickly learn how your favorite companies and productions fared with the judges. I am sure they join us in congratulating […]
Grease Live Review: A New Genre of TV (but not Theater)
Grease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-deep show about the 1950’s manifestly inferior to such sharper, similarly-themed entertainments as Bye, Bye Birdie and American Graffiti. Danny Zuko (Aaron […]
OLIVERio: A Brazilian Twist at The Kennedy Center (review)
One of the joys of living in the DMV is that it is both a strong area for theatre, and a strong area for family theatre. A case in point is the charming and clever production of OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist now playing at the Kennedy Center.
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