all Fringe is a new mini-showcase that will reprise a couple of popular festival shows and, hopefully, keep the buzz going.
A musical revival navigates new currents
A new staging of "Show Boat," Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical -- one of the milestones of American theater history -- starts performances at Signature on Tuesday.
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The script is sometimes tricky to animate on stage, given the long dialogues that often unfold in the front seat of the car as daughter Olivia and mother Beatriz whiz across America.
The Washington Ballet's "Don Quixote," with Ballet Nacional de Cuba's Viengsay Valdes in the leading role, was a fine production -- if you can stand canned music.