- Peter Marks
- Critic
- Beyond ‘Clybourne’: ‘Beneatha’s Place’
- An English actress, transformed by Washington
- A ‘Winter’s Tale’ for all seasons
- A madcap but middling ‘Twelfth Night’ at Folger Theatre
- Love and turmoil heat up ‘Other Desert Cities’ at Arena Stage
- For Jon Robin Baitz, all politics is verbal
- As another season on Broadway ends, more proof that it’s much better Off-
- Theater's Prince, crowned yet again
- Robert Pinsky adapts ‘Wallenstein’ for Shakespeare Theatre
- Kennedy Center plans Degas-inspired new musical, ‘Little Dancer’
- In resonant ‘Andy and the Shadows,’ not everything makes sense, for good and ill
- A Poet Laureate Tackles a German Classic in Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Wallenstein’
- ‘Matilda’ on Broadway: It’s magic, and not just for kids
- ‘Coriolanus’ turns on a potent Page
- Theater review: In King’s world, via ‘The Mountaintop’
- Lauper's “Boots” were made for Broadway
- Daisey on Disney: A ride worth taking
- ‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ fashions relationship of Lincoln’s wife and her dressmaker
- A new ‘Dolly,’ in dancing trim
- On the heels of ‘Really Really,’ could D.C.’s next export be theater?
- ‘4000 Miles’ at Studio Theatre makes for wise travel
- A bonanza of daring, across the boards
- An exuberant ‘Fanny and Alexander’ brings Bergman’s Ekdahls to the Kennedy Center
- A young classical actor, burning bright in Washington
- Betting on next season, Signature plays a full house
- A frothy new ‘Tempest’ bubbling to the surface
- For Idina Menzel and prize-winning team, D.C. is a Broadway tryout town reborn
- From Oslo, a most eccentric ‘Hedda Gabler’
- For Arena Stage, a season of high hopes and big plans and bigger stars
- Pointless Theatre’s ‘Canterbury’ has the right spirit but lacks cohesion
- A theater man casts his design eye on the Oscars
- ‘Metamorphoses’: A delightfully fluid way to experience Roman mythology
- In crowded theater market, Round House Theatre seeks to stand out
- Review of ‘The Convert’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
- Two Mamet plays are on the boil on D.C. stages
- ‘Shakespeare’s R+J’ at Signature Theatre: An old heartache gets an electric jolt
- Arena does grandly by ‘Good People’
- Olney finds next leader in Jason Loewith
- Broadway, coming to a nonprofit theater near you
- Theater review: ‘Our Town’ at Ford’s Theatre
- At Constellation Theatre, a dashing ‘Zorro’
- ‘Henry V’ review: A royal star done justice
- Arts preview: What’s springing up in D.C. theater
- On Broadway: ‘Cat’ lands on its feet; ‘Picnic,’ ‘The Other Place’ less successful
- In Theater J’s ‘Boged,’ an Israeli whistleblower is seen as toxic
- ‘We Tiresias’: Try not to myth it
- The dark side of gleaming corporate life in ‘Contractions’
- Arena Stage’s and WSC Avant Bard’s troubles
- Cheyenne Jackson: A New Year’s celebration with a classic overachiever
- For local playwriting, attitudes are beginning to shift regarding locally produced works
- Tuck in to laughter with the Pajama Men
- ‘Les Miz’ and Cameron Mackintosh go Hollywood
- A shaky landing for the visually striking ‘A Trip to the Moon’
- Top ten in theater, 2012 edition
- Malkovich steers ‘Liaisons’ with dramatic savoir-faire
- Arena Stage’s ‘Pullman Porter Blues’ rolls uncertainly down the tracks
- Doing ‘Prudencia Hart’ in ‘Strange’ surroundings
- Dog & Pony DC’s ‘A Killing Game’: Killing you softly, and smartly
- They're your ‘Dreamgirls,’ they'll make you happy
- At Shakespeare Theatre Company, whirlwind of a Bottom spins ‘Midsummer’ for laughs
- Theater Review: WSC Avant Bard’s ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’
- A ‘Christmas Carol’ with an ASL twist at Gallaudet
- Off-Broadway, the new play can still be the thing
- In ‘The Aliens,’ silence speaks volumes
- Arena Stage’s much-too-fair ‘My Fair Lady’ has no trouble getting to the church on time
- Review: "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart"
- Review of ‘Woody Sez’ at Theater J
- Theater Review: ‘You for Me for You’
- For ‘Annie’ actress on Broadway, the sun has come out
- Kennedy Center’s ‘War Horse’ succeeds on a grand stage
- Bryony Lavery’s ‘Dirt’ is muddy indeed
- ‘Conversations’ begin on playwright Tom Murphy at the Kennedy Center
- ‘Hello Dolly’ casting announced for Ford’s Theatre and Signature Theatre co-production
- ‘War Horse’ gives puppeteers free rein
- The benighted graduates of the harrowing ‘Our Class’
- Onstage in Baltimore and New York, an ‘Enemy’ all around
- Ireland’s Druid Theatre is on another mission to elevate the isle’s playwrights
- Molly Smith signs on to spread Broadway wings with ‘Velocity of Autumn’
- Urban warfare of an emotional kind in ‘Dying City’
- Raucousness resurrected in ‘One Night With Janis Joplin’
- The long, woolly path to Broadway for Craig Wright’s ‘Grace’
- One man, two performances: Mills is a tour-de-force Jekyll and Hyde
- ‘The Government Inspector’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company: The fur, and the rubles, fly
- The scalding "Black Watch" returns, bringing the War in Iraq to harrowing life
- Hearing Beckett, and what he sounds like to modern composers
- Review: ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,’ burning bright at Round House
- Jaylee Mead: A life lived offstage, devoted to what was on it
- 12 Washington actors we love to watch
- Studio Theatre’s ‘Invisible Man’ has visual brilliance, compelling performance
- Woolly Mammoth goes to the mat with “Chad Deity”
- ‘Hamlet,’ fast and furious at the Folger
- DNC’s show of power: Reviewing the political theater of the party’s convention
- Theater: Firsts are busting out all over
- Back stories mask what Suilebhan’s superhero story ‘Reals’ is really about
- Peter Marks: Reviewing the political theater of the GOP convention
- ‘Whorehouse’ is revived at Signature Theatre
- Kathleen Turner, with tang and a twang, becomes Molly Ivins
- At Folger, ‘Hamlet’ will be a homecoming for Georgetown grad Michael Benz
- Round House Theatre's new artistic director swaps out two shows for the coming season
- Sondheim in the Park: ‘Into the Woods’ with Amy Adams and Donna Murphy
- Fringe births talent; now D.C.'s theaters have to help raise it
- ‘We Tiresias’ at Capital Fringe
- Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Stopgap’ is a promising social comedy
- Mike Daisey returns to D.C. with ‘Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’
- Review: Forum Theatre's ‘Church’ explores the connection between pastor and flock
- Review: ‘The Brontes’ at the Capital Fringe Festival is a delightful musical satire
- Studio ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’: Some missteps in energetic musical
- ‘Beertown’: A nice place to raise your theatergoers
- Capital Fringe Festival Review of ‘Cabaret XXX: Love The One You’re With’
- ‘Beertown’: A stein’s full of democracy
- Peter Marks reviews the Kennedy Center’s ‘Addams Family’
- Tweet your #fringereviews for the Capital Fringe Festival
- ‘3C,’ off-Broadway, brings tragicomic TV to the stage
- Et tu, dude? Why do directors take Shakespeare so far from his contexts?
- Mike Tyson’s latest corner: Broadway
- At Georgetown, a conversation about global theater
- ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ is merely serviceable at Shakespeare Theatre
- Erin Weaver glides into a new phase in her career
- ‘The Normal Heart’ in flawless, anguish-filled revival at Arena Stage
- Theater review: ‘The Animals and Children Took to the Streets’
- To sing, perchance to ‘Dream,’ of two of Broadway’s greats, Kander and Ebb
- Bill Condon to direct ‘Side Show’ at Kennedy Center
- After the Tonys, D.C. raises a glass
- Tony Awards 2012: ‘Once’ wins best musical; ‘Clybourne Park’ best play
- 66th Tony Awards: And the Winner Is . . . Washington
- With ‘Home of the Soldier,’ Synetic Theater’s on foreign terrain
- Round House Theatre names Ryan Rilette as new leader
- No Rules Theatre troupe has little pep in ‘Suicide Incorporated’
- In ‘Mr. Burns,’ civilization may fade, but Bart Simpson is forever
- Larry Kramer's scalding ‘The Normal Heart’ comes to Arena Stage
- ‘Beertown’ returning to D.C.: Refreshments in the footlights
- Arena Stage’s ‘Music Man’ is Iowa stubborn and Washington smooth
- WSC Avant Bard’s ‘Tooth of Crime’: Missing true grit in pivotal role
- ‘Xanadu’: Erin Weaver’s a muse in leg warmers at Signature Theatre
- At Shakespeare Theatre, a true master of its comic domain
- Who’s the shrew? At Folger, it’s a tossup.
- Tony Award nominations: Led by ‘Follies,’ Washington lights up Broadway
- ‘Follies,’ ‘Clybourne Park’ among Tony nominees that got their start in Washington
- Seasoning needed for ‘The Big Meal’
- In Shenandoah Valley, a Shakespeare tradition has taken root
- ‘Whipping Man’: A Civil War seder as the South crumbles
- ‘Clybourne Park’ on Broadway: Poignant ironies, as sharp as ever
- ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’: Gut-achingly good
- A crown lies uneasily in Round House's ‘Shadows’
- The Inkwell, a D.C. theater incubator, steps onto a larger stage
- Puppeteer and drag artist in tune in ‘Arias With a Twist’
- D.C. theater to toast the plays of England, Scotland, France
- In ‘Long Day’s Journey’ at Arena, there’s something special about this Mary
- ‘Evita’ on Broadway: Ricky Martin’s charm as Che is misapplied
- Review: Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Strange Interlude’
- A ‘Shrew’ on two fleet feet from Synetic Theater
- Before the Tonys, Broadway accelerates with ‘Once,’ ‘Newsies,’ ‘Jesus Christ’
- Dramatist rewrites script to run Baltimore's Centerstage
- Tiptoeing, gently, ‘Into the Woods’
- Signature Theatre’s ‘Brother Russia’: Music reigns, but the Mad Monk is an enigma
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre sticks by Mike Daisey amid documentary controversy
- For O'Neill's softer side, just say 'Ah'
- Mike Daisey was annoyed by ‘This American Life’ vetting
- Theater Review: Puppeteer Basil Twist’s ‘Petrushka’
- Theater: From Hungary, With Wails
- Theater Review: Ford’s Theatre’s ‘1776’ is a Yankee doodle dandy
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield are big hitters in Nichols’s ‘Salesman’
- In new seasons, D.C. theater companies will present the extremely tried-and-true
- Eugene O’Neill, an American master playwright, is back in the limelight
- In ‘Sucker Punch’ at Studio Theatre, young actor packs a mighty wallop
- New ‘Carrie’ production not ready for prom time
- Tongues wag to uncertain effect in ‘The Language Archive’
- The Rant: The squawk about a squeak
- Theater: Floating evocatively in a young woman's reverie
- A full plate of the surreal in ‘Civilization (All You Can Eat)’
- Natsu Onoda Power’s ‘Astro Boy’ takes imaginative flight
- Garden of Eden renovated in “Genesis Reboot”
- Review: ‘Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers’ at H Street Playhouse
- ‘Shatner's World’ on Broadway: Definitely on his own planet
- Mike Daisey’s ‘Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’ to make D.C. comeback
- A ‘Really Really’ explosive look at Generation Me
- Astro Boy in three dimensions, by a director who thinks multi-dimensionally
- Folger Theatre’s ‘The Gaming Table’: Set for 18th-century satire
- Theater Review: ‘Elephant Room’ at Arena Stage
- The hues blend evocatively in Arena Stage’s ‘Red’
- Spring preview — Theater: ‘Astro Boy,’ ‘Brother Russia’ and 2 ‘Shrews’
- From Lear to Rothko, a director who wields a big brush
- Theater review: ‘The Gallerist’ at Atlas Performing Arts Center
- ‘La Cage aux Folles’ revival at Kennedy Center is vivacious, endearing
- Rosemary Harris: ‘The Road to Mecca's’ timeless star
- Renee Calarco’s ‘Religion Thing’: Cutesyness drags down comedy about faith
- A war photographer struggles back to the ordinary in ‘Time Stands Still’
- The state of D.C. theater
- Kennedy Center cancels centerpiece ‘Pal Joey’
- Arena Stage modifies research role as major players depart
- New York Notebook: Only a few sparks in the fall theater season
- A Texas icon roars again: Ann Richards, the subject of ‘Ann’
- Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Much Ado’ raises question of Latino stereotypes
- ‘Billy Elliot’ lands at Kennedy Center in well-made dancing shoes
- From Chicago, a comedy collective second to none
- A Funny Thing Happens in Arena's ‘You, Nero’
- Theater’s Top 10
- ‘Much Ado’ with a Cuban flavor at Shakespeare Theatre Company
- ‘Follies’ revival bound for Los Angeles
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