Arts + Entertainment
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Designing Woman
Despite the bohemian trendiness of the '30s when Noel Coward wrote Design for Living, he must have known that most audiences, being typically conventional, would...
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Big Country
Everything about the world-premiere musical Giant at Signature Theatre is as big as the title suggests. The ''Texas-sized'' musical features an ambitiously scaled concept, a...
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Blinded by Science
It's been three years since Dan Brown's wildly popular novel, The Da Vinci Code, jumped to the silver screen, angering the Catholic Church with its...
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A la Mode
Has Depeche Mode, pioneers of dark electronica, seen the light? ''Just look at me,'' lead singer Dave Gahan sings on ''Peace,'' from the band's new...
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Whiz Kid
There are the things we know, and then there are the things we don't know. And then there are the things we think we know...
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Secret Lives
Washington loves its secrets -- or at least it loves pretending something is a secret even though it's made its way through the rumor mill...
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Deliciously Dire
Chances are you will not be seeing the Siegfried that opened this past Saturday night since the performance began with general director Placido Domingo's announcement...
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Space Balls
J.J. Abrams may not be boldly going where no man has gone before, but he's boldly doing what few have done before: creating a daring,...
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De-Clawed
What happens when the badass becomes the sweet and sensitive one? You lose the edge. And that's exactly the problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. There's...
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Puppet Master
Until just a few years ago, Joe Goode considered himself a ''puppetphobe.'' ''Puppets seemed like children's theater,'' says the innovative choreographer. ''The cuteness factor was...
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Closet Cases
Where's the rage in Outrage? Director Kirby Dick, who last covered the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system in This Film Is Not Yet...
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Great Escape
Ragtime is one of those musicals. It's big. It's opulent. It's filled with infectious songs that will remain firmly in your head for days after...
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Rock On
Tom Stoppard junkies may scoff, but any discussion of Studio's Rock 'N' Roll must begin with the caveat that the uninitiated may wish to either...
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Drinking Again
Pulling it out yet again (sometimes literally in this case), the Washington Shakespeare Company delivers a superbly in-yer-face production of Tennessee Williams' study in disheveled...
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Hall of Fame
It's amazing what people will post online. Leave aside the conversations people will have, loudly, on their cell phones while walking down the street or...
