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Terrence McNally, celebrated playwright who chronicled gay lives, dies at 81 from coronavirus

“Love! Valour! Compassion!” cemented Mr. McNally as a pivotal American dramatist, a clear-eyed chronicler of gay lives with a humane and lyrical style.
  • Mar 24, 2020

The ‘Legally Blonde’ musical snaps the movie’s charm

Elle Woods isn’t framed as stylishly in the bustling stage adaptation now at Keegan Theatre.
  • Aug 7, 2019

Harold Prince, consummate Broadway impresario, dies at 91

The visionary musical theater director and producer won 21 Tony Awards, more than anyone else.
  • Jul 31, 2019

‘American Spies,’ examining a Japanese American family in 1941, doesn’t quite find its footing

Hub Theatre debuts Sam Hamashima’s new play to mixed effect.
  • Jul 23, 2019

The whiz-bang ‘Aladdin’ at the Kennedy Center still has problems to solve

The high-octane show delivers the spectacle, at least.
  • Jul 21, 2019

‘Be More Chill’: The rare new musical you can see now on Broadway or on a small stage

“It was not an easy choice,” composer Joe Iconis says of bucking the usual licensing route.
  • Jul 20, 2019

‘The Band’s Visit’ settles in at the Kennedy Center

The national tour of the laid-back Tony winner is on pitch.
  • Jul 11, 2019

Mike Daisey scores big in an uneven ‘curated’ series at Capital Fringe Festival

Booking a genuine headliner is a twist for the grab-bag of acts staged around the city every July.
  • Jul 10, 2019

How Christopher Youstra helped tune up Olney Theatre Center’s musicals

‘I’m not a musicals fanboy. I’m a musician first,’ says the troupe’s associate artistic director of music theater.
  • Jul 9, 2019

A Q&A with Michael Urie, who seems to be everywhere in D.C. this month

The busy actor is playing Hamlet in STC’s Free for All and is also directing a play at Studio Theatre.
  • Jul 4, 2019
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