Theater review: Lee Breuer’s staging of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”
(Richard Termine)
The avant-garde production features radical casting.
Arena Stage’s home for playwrights
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The American Voices New Play Institute rents a townhouse where five playwrights-in-residence, including Karen Zacarías, can hone their craft.
Live ballet, on-screen
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Digital technology and satellite feeds are bringing performances by the Bolshoi and Royal Ballet into local movie theaters. Will they stack up against the real thing?
Theater review: Studio’s ‘Lungs’
(Carol Pratt)
Duncan Macmillan’s “Lungs” is a bracingly dramatic walk through the thicket of couples-communication.
The Shakespeare Theatre’s littlest stars will make you squeal
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Frank Robinson Jr., whose pig Cordelia is part of “The Heir Apparent” cast, talks about his experience as a stage parent.
Broadway’s ‘Mountaintop’ fails to deliver
Martin Luther King Jr. requires a vehicle that reveals his ineffable magnetism as well as his flaws, but this play fails to deliver.
‘Forest’ full of political paranoia
The gaze of Romania’s long-reigning communist dictator can be felt in this smart, absorbing production of “Mad Forest.”
‘Macbeth’: Spooky, silent Shakespeare
Synetic Theater’s mute technique infuses the Bard’s story with a hypnotic strangeness while tracking the original script quite faithfully.
China’s high-energy ballet is on trend
The National Ballet of China, at the Kennedy Center Thursday, performed an athletic but artistically unsatisfying program of excerpts accompanied by taped music.
Theater review: Faction of Fools’ ‘The Mandrake’
“The Mandrake” wins a lot of comic battles, but in the end, the play is more smart than funny.
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Meryl Streep, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Barbara Cook and Yo-Yo Ma are the 2011 Honorees.
Barbara Cook, Kennedy Center honoree at last
The singer-actress has been crooning professionally since the presidency of Harry Truman.
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The Shakespeare Theatre’s littlest stars will make you squeal
Frank Robinson Jr., whose pig Cordelia is part of “The Heir Apparent” cast, talks about his experience as a stage parent.
A new voice for Washington theater
The Helen Hayes Awards are becoming TheatreWashington, a group that aims to promote a stronger identity for D.C. as a theater destination.
‘Follies’ sticks its landing in N.Y.
The Kennedy Center revival of “Follies” has landed on Broadway as a fleeter-footed, more consistently exhilarating incarnation.
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