- Peter Marks
- Reporter
- 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
- ‘Bust’ brings an L.A. story to Studio Theatre
- Barbara Cook, forever carrying a tune
- A modest affair is set to melody in ‘A Second Chance’
- The gentle authority of John Hurt in ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
- A lot to ponder about Shakespeare through ‘Equivocation’
- Holiday gifts of a dramatic kind
- ‘An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’
- Arena Stage’s funding outlook prompts cancellation of spring play
- Ken Ludwig world premiere to be at high school
- Hugh Jackman, back? He IS Broadway
- ‘Golden Dragon’ at Studio Theatre
- ‘Boys from Syracuse’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
- Arena Stage bans media, public from new-play conference
- Playwright Jon Robin Baitz’s ‘Other Desert Cities’ is a strong serio-comedy
- Constellation’s curious choice, ‘Arms and the Man’
- ‘Chinglish’: A comedy of miscommunication
- Blake Robison to leave Round House for Cincinnati
- Two ‘Othellos’ built around their Iagos
- Review of ‘ReEntry’ at Round House Theatre
- Woolly’s illuminating ‘Bright New Boise’
- Occupy Wall Street goes Off-Broadway
- As Broadway exposure grows for black women writers, ‘Trouble in Mind’ resonates
- Steve Jobs play is “best original American play so far this year”
- Page-worn ‘Book Club Play’ at Arena Stage
- Jackson and Bassett’s good beginning fails to deliver in ‘Mountaintop’
- ‘Lungs’: Breathing fresh new path at Studio Theatre
- ‘Les Miserables’ back at Kennedy Center for 25th anniversary
- Ford’s Theatre’s solemn ‘Parade’
- TheatreWashington seeks to be the new voice of the capital’s stages
- Arena Stage’s ‘Trouble in Mind’: Character-rich and well-acted play about race
- Round House’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ definitely not smokin’
- In ‘Fela!’, infectious beats serve as soundtrack to Nigerian activist’s story
- ‘Stop Kiss’: The harsh realities of romance
- The fight over retrofitting classics for modern tastes
- ‘The Heir Apparent’: A fine time for rhyme
- Kennedy Center’s ‘Follies’ steps onto Broadway with fleet feet
- Two, two, two new musicals at Signature
- D.C. area fall theater preview: It’s all about the directors
- Barbara Cook, Kennedy Center honoree at last
- Theater review: A magnetic new vision for ‘Uncle Vanya’ at Kennedy Center
- Theater J incident illustrates larger dialogue on Israel at Jewish institutions
- Australian actors and a Hungarian director roll Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ to D.C.
- Review of ‘Clybourne Park’ at Woolly Mammoth
- Royal Shakespeare Company vs. New York’s Shakespeare in the Park
- Tony winner Mark Rylance, from Shakespeare to Broadway to ‘Jerusalem’
- Theater: Time to honor Stoppard, Cook and Fichandler
- Theater review: ‘Pop!’ paints bold portrait of Warhol and his inner circle
- Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the Iraq War’
- ‘Oklahoma!’ makes a joyful return to Arena Stage
- Tyne Daly in ‘Master Class’ on Broadway: A class above
- Could Fringe Festival go mainstream?
- Theater review: ‘Next to Normal’ at Kennedy Center
- Mark Nelson is lone highlight in contrived ‘Merchant of Venice’ at Shakespeare
- Following in past actors’ footsteps, more Broadway stars take to the road
- At Kennedy Center, “Wicked’s” heart shines like emeralds
- Kennedy Center’s ‘Follies’ is Broadway-bound
- Theater: ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’
- Actress Holly Twyford, chameleon
- ‘The Book of Mormon’ wins big at Tony Awards
- Molly Smith, at the helm of Arena Stage’s renaissance
- Theater review: Forum Theatre’s ‘bobrauschenbergamerica’
- Robert O'Hara's ‘Booty Candy’ at Woolly Mammoth
- Review of ‘Don Quixote’ at Synetic Theater
- Review of ‘Venus in Fur’ at Studio Theatre
- Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Old Times’ maintains Pinter’s exquisite tension
- Stage vets bring out the best in ‘Anything Goes,’ ‘King Lear’ and ‘The Normal Heart’
- Arena Stage's ‘A Time to Kill’: A practice run for bigger things?
- Peter Marks reviews Kennedy Center’s revival of Sondheim’s ‘Follies’
- Review of Theater J's "The Moscows of Nantucket"
- Theater review: ‘Side by Side by Sondheim’ at Signature Theatre
- Obituary: Arthur Laurents wrote scripts for stage and screen, including ‘Gypsy’
- Just say nose: Peter Marks reviews Folger Theatre’s ‘Cyrano’
- Jan Maxwell’s ‘Follies’ philosophy? Bring it on.
- Theater review of ‘Ruined’ at Arena Stage
- Bernadette Peters and Stephen Sondheim pair up again, this time for ‘Follies’
- Theater review: ‘Jerusalem’ on Broadway
- Shakespeare Theatre Company imports successes from New York and abroad
- Peter Marks reviews Enda Walsh’s ‘The New Electric Ballroom’ at Studio Theatre
- Peter Marks reviews ‘War Horse,’ ‘Catch Me if You Can’ and more on Broadway
- Signature Theatre’s 2011-12 season is filled with world premieres
- Peter Marks reviews Synetic Theater’s ‘King Lear’
- ‘Mormon’ a product of creators’ unlikely love of Broadway
- Peter Marks reviews Ford’s Theatre’s production of “Liberty Smith”
- Peter Marks reviews ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’
- Theater review: ‘And the Curtain Rises’ at Signature Theatre
- Theater reviews: ‘How to Succeed’ and ‘Priscilla’ on Broadway
- Review of Broadway’s ‘The Book of Mormon’
- Preview: The Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival at Georgetown University
- Playwright Enda Walsh, keeper of Ireland’s storytelling tradition
- Peter Marks reviews Enda Walsh’s ‘Penelope’ at Studio Theatre
- Theater review: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘An Ideal Husband’
- Review: Peter Marks on Theater J’s ‘The Chosen’ at Arena Stage
- Without new voices, stages will just echo the familiar
- ‘At Home at the Zoo’ expands Albee’s classic one-act play
- Peter Marks reviews ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ at Arena Stage
- In world of New York theater, ‘Good People’ a sign of hope for this season
- Edward Albee Festival starts at Arena Stage
- ‘Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet’ tops off bayou trilogy
- Theater review: Forum Theatre's dismal 'One Flea Spare'
- Theater review: Forum Theatre's dismal 'One Flea Spare'
- Arena Stage bets on D.C. theatergoers to plan trip to 'Oklahoma!' for summer run
- Arena Stage bets on D.C. theatergoers to plan trip to 'Oklahoma!' for summer run
- Luis Alfaro, playwright of 'Oedipus el Rey,' on mission to change face of theater
- '24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
- '24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
- Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth
- Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth
- Luis Alfaro, playwright of ‘Oedipus el Rey,’ on mission to change face of theater
- NEA chairman provokes heated debate: How much art is too much?
- NEA chairman provokes heated debate: How much art is too much?
- McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life
- McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life
- Shakespeare Theatre Company fetes Michael Kahn in 25th-anniversary season
- Shakespeare Theatre Company fetes Michael Kahn in 25th-anniversary season
- 'Spider-Man' on Broadway: No superpowers needed to sniff out this stinker
- 'Spider-Man' on Broadway: No superpowers needed to sniff out this stinker
- Spring festivals scratch theater's curatorial itch
- Spring festivals scratch theater's curatorial itch
- 'Comedy of Errors' review: Blurred identities clear path for laughs at Folger
- Talent, mayhem mix for divine 'Comedy of Errors'
- Spring theater highlights
- National Theatre of Scotland casts 'Black' magic on stage
- 'Black Watch' review: Scottish battalion's Iraq story is authentic, astonishing
- At Arena, the new play's the thing
- Theater conference seeks a common development pipeline for new plays
- 'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic
- Review: Shakespeare Theatre's unsteady 'Cymbeline'
- Weaving a web of seductive stories
- Peter Marks reviews Arena Stage's often beguiling production of 'The Arabian Nights'
- Studio Theatre's new muse
- 'Return to Haifa' crosses borders of war
- 'Return to Haifa' at Theater J: A Jewish refugee's heartfelt tale
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