This Summer’s Free For All: ‘Othello’
• August 9, 2017

Check your calendar. “Othello” is coming, Aug. 15-27, to Sidney Harman Hall in a Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All production. Before we get to that, let’s discuss. In theater, audience […]

The Changing Kennedy Center Honors
• August 7, 2017

Under President Deborah Rutter, the Kennedy Center has taken a lively interest in newer forms of popular music.

‘Jules and Jim’ Star Moreau Has Died
• August 3, 2017

The haunting French film actress Jeanne Moreau died July 31 at the age of 89.

Sam Shepard, Cool ‘Disco’ Dan: Unique American Identifiers
• July 31, 2017

They were American types, not because of race or color, not as artists in terms of stature or genre, but as American identifiers.

Behind the ‘Cabaret’ Curtain with a Kit Kat Girl
• July 27, 2017

Our performing arts writer chats with Lori Eure, a Kit Kat Girl in the touring production of “Cabaret,” at the Kennedy Center through Aug. 6.

Tischler’s Take: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ at Oak Hill Cemetery
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“Lincoln in the Bardo” will confound you, will move you and make you feel drugged at times, will challenge your conceptions of what a novel should be — but also […]

Woolly’s Founder: On the Brink of Second Act
• July 26, 2017

Back in early June, the announcement came that Howard Shalwitz would be stepping down as artistic director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which has given Washington consistently fresh, ahead-of-the-curve, cutting-edge […]

A Loss in the Family: Jim Vance
• July 24, 2017

The longest serving broadcaster in the D.C. area succumbed to cancer last Saturday.

Our Loss: 2 Who Will Scare Us No More
• July 17, 2017

In movies, and their small-screen counterparts, lines crisscross all the time. After six seasons of warnings, it appears that winter has come to Westeros on “Game of Thrones,” the much anticipated […]

Fury and Farce in the Post-Fourth of July Air
• July 13, 2017

This past week or so — call it “The Son Also Sinks” — was more like “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”