Arts + Entertainment
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Classic Fare
Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...
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Perpetual Motion
It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...
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Pop Circus
When Mika first emerged on the pop scene a couple years ago with Life In Cartoon Motion you could hear echoes of many of his...
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The Atwood Anomaly
For the novice, mention of Canadian author Margaret Atwood likely conjures thoughts of The Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 novel of an America at war with...
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Parting Glances
Even in his final days, Michael Jackson's crotch grabs were awkward and excessive. And the man came across as a bit creepy and gangly –...
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Masterpieces
Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...
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Earned Wings
''The sort of plays we produce,'' says Forum Theatre artistic director Michael Dove, ''are incredibly theatrical. plays that ask really big questions, that tackle...
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Sky Queen
She's global. She's glam. She's Pam Ann. And while her comedic Pam Ann persona is sky-bound, you're more likely to have encountered Caroline Reid on...
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Freak Show
As the vampire-version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Willow liked to say, ''Bored now.'' Maybe that's not completely true for every minute of Cirque du...
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Comedy and Tragedy
The biggest problem with the farce is that it has become so much part of the high school theatrical trunk. It's a potent mix for...
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Creative Transfusion
With their original blend of high-impact dance, crystal-clear storytelling and keen sense of what entertains, it's hard to imagine being disappointed by anything generated by...
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Dancing with Vasudevan
Like most Indian dance pieces, the Bharata Natyam tells a story. Aniruddhan Vasudevan, who is gay and one of the dancers performing the classical Indian...
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Heavy Metal
Although Michael Kahn has an exceptional talent for injecting antique plays with contemporary flair, his take on Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist makes one long...
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Songbirds
Washington, D.C., is a city built on two unstable foundations. The first (and most commented on during the summer swelter) is a swamp, though serious...
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Leading Man
''I love the play. I love what it says. I love the fact that it's sort-of perfectly tied into what's going on in my personal...
