When the Howard Theatre opens its doors to the public next week for the first time in nearly 30 years, there will be very few people alive who can recall its original look. Th...

Snow White has been “fairest of them all” since her Brothers Grimm days, and with two new big-screen adaptations of the classic fairy tale due out this year, that title is...

Basil Twist doesn’t play with puppets; he creates complete theatrical works of art with them. His multifaceted, music-oriented productions toy with abstraction (“Symphonie...

“1776” is a big show with big themes. The musical — which had blockbuster Broadway runs in 1969 and 1997 and is on now through May 19 at Ford’s Theatre — chronicles ...

You can know every word in the dictionary and still not be able to express yourself. That’s the idea behind Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive,” now playing at the Roun...

Jason Grote’s new play, “Civilization (all you can eat),” involves a pig, a would-be self-help guru and a young woman who wants to make the world a better place. But mos...

In 2007, playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo, then 21, set out to write something explaining the mindset of his generation. What he came up with was “Really Really,” currently ...

Gritty modern productions of “Romeo and Juliet” are commonplace. Wild emotions, violence, societal repression — how did anyone ever stage this as a stilted classical pie...

Anyone who has ever whirled away a couple of twenties at a Vegas slot machine or gotten mildly addicted to online blackjack knows the chancy appeal of gambling. Eighteenth-cen...

The type of modern art that some people find infuriating is perhaps best exemplified by Mark Rothko’s paintings — smudgy squares writ huge, with no story, no figures and u...

We thought we knew George Hamilton: He has an improbable tan, he was on “Dynasty,” and he played the lawyer in the third “Godfather” movie. When we questioned him abou...

When it’s clear from a character’s first entrance that she can barely use her left leg or her right arm and that she’s covered in shrapnel scars, one might assume the pl...

Holland Taylor can be funny (as Evelyn Harper on “Two and a Half Men”), a little racy (as Judge Roberta Kittleson on “The Practice,” a woman who has sex even though sh...

American theater has excelled at slapstick and spectacle ever since vaudeville showed up at the turn of the 20th century. We haven’t lost our taste for clowning and pageantr...

Teamwork is a recurring theme in “Equivocation,” playwright Bill Cain’s humorous, history-inspired drama at Arena Stage. There’s the uneasy alliance that the plot hing...