Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1987 play Burn This, thanks to the steamy poster of the show’s stars Adam Driver and Keri Russell. There is little question that […]
Archives for April 16, 2019
Review: The Value of Moscow from Dark Horse Theatre Company
“Sisters, Sisters, There were never such devoted sisters,” warbled Rosemary Clooney and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas. (Yes, Clooney was the stand-in singing voice for Vera-Ellen for that number in the 1954 film.) But what if siblings are not so devoted to each other? What if their lives have taken too many wrong turns, individually, […]
Review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, glorious and inspiring musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Toby’s Dinner Theatre has been transformed into a cathedral for its towering production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, including some of the most powerful and moving choral work you are likely to hear outside of a house of worship. And that’s saying something, given the Washington, D.C. area’s reputation for excellence in choral groups […]
2019 Pulitzer winner Jackie Sibblies Drury joins the growing list of women playwrights honored by the prestigious committee
The Pulitzer Committee announced yesterday that the recipient for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama is Brooklyn-based playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for Fairview, which debuted at Off-Broadway Soho Rep, June, 2018. The Pulitzer citation calls Fairview: “A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to […]