What matters most, when all the theatrical offerings for 2019 have been made, is what lingers in the minds and hearts of the audience. We asked our writers and the Gary Maker Audience Award recipients to think back over the year, and tell us their most unforgettable shows. Here they are in alphabetical order. Ain’t […]
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Our 22 most memorable performances of 2019
One last standing ovation for these performers whose work quite simply blew us away this year. Ian Merill Peakes, Amadeus, Folger Theatre In Amadeus, Ian Merill Peakes brought Peter Shaffer’s Salieri to brilliant, anguished life. He was a childishly sweet-scarfing confidant explaining to future generations the way his young court-rival genius, Mozart, curdled Salieri’s heart and activated […]
Who SHOULD win the 2019 Tony Awards Sunday night and why
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a complicated one when choosing who and what I think should win in the 2019 Tony Award’s 26 categories. How much should one weigh fresh if sometimes […]
Forecasting Washington area theatre in 2019
Our forecast feature allows us to comfortably predict, even before the year’s first show opens, that 2019 will be an exciting one for Washington area audiences as companies open newly renovated venues, welcome new leadership and take on exciting new artistic risks. NEW VENUES Round House Theatre Round House Theatre will undergo a full interior […]
The 2019 Tony Awards: The Winners and most memorable speeches not shown on tonight’s Tony Awards show
While viewers in past years might have retired early from the 3 hour Tony Awards show, 2019’s host James Corden gave them plenty of reasons to stay tuned through to the final awards in tonight’s 73rd Annual Tony Awards. Ever the natural showman, Corden ranged from singing and dancing on the Radio City Music Hall […]
18 greatest moments on New York stages in 2019
In a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about “political theater” — when they didn’t mean anything actually happening in a work of art — it’s good to celebrate the memorable moments that happened nightly on New York stages. These were moments that were memorable as a […]
Our Most Memorable Operas and Dance Performances of 2019
Prufrock, Chamber Dance Project Leading my most memorable performances for 2019 would have to be the Chamber Dance Project’s premiere of “Prufrock” in June at Sidney Harman Hall. Choreographed by the company’s founder and artistic director, Diane Coburn Bruning, “Prufrock” turned five dancers into a teeming but lonely city of suited, bowler-hatted strivers running, colliding, […]
Broadway dims its lights tonight for Hal Prince, January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019
Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. The lights of all Broadway theaters in New York will dim for one minute today at 7:45 p.m. His memoir of his life was recently […]
The Washington Ballet’s 2019-2020 season offers the best of classical and contemporary works
The Washington Ballet’s 2019-2020 season promises to be an interesting mix of classical and contemporary ballets, and will without a doubt delight both hard-core traditionalists and dance lovers seeking adventurous contemporary works. The season runs from October 2019 through May 2020 at several venues across town. It will be artistic director Julie Kent’s fourth season […]
Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the Cronut of musicals, still works its spell
Recent research has shown that humans’ domestication of dogs has altered canines’ brains. I have a theory — it has not yet been borne out by science, but I am confident that it will be — that cats have done the same to humans. Why else would we be in such devoted service to these […]
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