Arts and Living


King Kahn
What goes on in the mind of a director as he steers another Shakespeare production into reality?
(Nikki Kahn -- The Washington Post)

Biblical Hero as Lord of the Dance
Theater J's "David in Shadow and Light" is moved by a spirit that comes from the sole.
(Carol Rosegg)

'Oresteia': Tragically Overwrought

No one can accuse the year-old Constellation Theatre Company of thinking small.


The Playwright Has Complete Say

Words of love are often ambiguous, but in "The Internationalist," a dark comedy of cross-cultural errors playing at the Studio Theatre, they're literally unintelligible.


'School for Scandal': Give It a C

Folger Theatre's "School for Scandal" is kind of like a surprise party at which the guest of honor never shows.


An Artistic Director's Encore

Olney Theatre Center's Jim Petosa has done a 180 and decided to stay on as artistic director.


Comic Tango Too Often Drags Its Feet

The machinery of farce churns determinedly but none too fast in Teatro de la Luna's "Volvió una Noche (She Returned One Night)."


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