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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

'Oklahoma!' makes a joyful return to Arena Stage by Peter Marks

That bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around. "Oklahoma!," the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking as s…

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Royal Shakespeare Company vs. New York's Shakespeare in the Park by Peter Marks

NEW YORK " Bill this midsummer card as an Elizabethan throwdown: the Royal Shakespeare Company versus the New York Shakespeare Festival. Virtually within earshot of each other, Britain's bas…

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Theater review: A magnetic new vision for 'Uncle Vanya' at Kennedy Center by Peter Marks

As shattered Uncle Vanya, Richard Roxburgh isn't merely a shell of a man. He's a shell of a shell, a quaking, sobbing wreck. Racked ever more violently by the realization that the professor …

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Barbara Cook, Kennedy Center honoree at last by Peter Marks

The Kennedy Center showed taste and maturity in (finally) bestowing one of its Honors on the sublime Broadway songbird, Barbara Cook. The singer-actress"83 and still chirping with amazing vi…

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Kennedy Center's 'Follies' steps onto Broadway with fleet feet by Peter Marks

NEW YORK " Reaffirming that an out-of-town workout is still a show's optimal fitness program, the Kennedy Center revival of "Follies," seen in Washington last spring, has landed on Broadway …

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'Stop Kiss': The harsh realities of romance by Peter Marks

Diana Son's "Stop Kiss" plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a brutal ha…

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'The Heir Apparent': A fine time for rhyme by Peter Marks

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Arena Stage's 'Trouble in Mind': Character-rich and well-acted play about race by Peter Marks

"White folks can't stand unhappy Negroes, so laugh," the veteran black actress instructs the young black actor in "Trouble in Mind," Alice Childress's wise and extraordinarily winning comedy…

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TheatreWashington seeks to be the new voice of the capital's stages by Peter Marks

Feeling invisible is the one torment no theater person can endure. So it has long driven inhabitants of Washington's stage world batty that, when outsiders are told the city has a lively per…

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'Lungs': Breathing fresh new path at Studio Theatre by Peter Marks

Studio Theatre embarks on an exciting new path with "Lungs," a bracingly dramatic walk through the thicket of couples communication that proves an auspicious start to the company's ambitions…

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Jackson and Bassett's good beginning fails to deliver in 'Mountaintop' by Peter Marks

NEW YORK " One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up " on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony eligi…

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As Broadway exposure grows for black women writers, 'Trouble in Mind' resonates by Peter Marks

The versatile Chicago and Washington actress E. Faye Butler recounted a call she received to audition in New York for a British stage version of "Gone With the Wind." "Faye, there's a famous…

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Page-worn 'Book Club Play' at Arena Stage by Peter Marks

For a fleeting instant, you grasp the potential in the new, extensively rewritten version of playwright Karen Zacarías's comedy of modern literary manners, "The Book Club Play." The merry…

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Review of 'ReEntry' at Round House Theatre by Peter Marks

Using minimal theatrics and the testimony of real soldiers, "ReEntry" creates a stage document about an aspect of military life that few of us back home ever fully understand: the trials of …

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Woolly's illuminating 'Bright New Boise' by Peter Marks

The saddest moment on a Washington stage this year also happens to be one of the most exhilarating. It occurs in Act 2 of "A Bright New Boise" " playwright Samuel D. Hunter's unsparing accou…

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Occupy Wall Street goes Off-Broadway by Peter Marks

Amid the Babel of voices in Zuccotti Park, Greg McFadden wanted to listen to just one: a voice that might suit his own perfectly. "Let's take a look around," the actor declared, surveying Oc…

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Two 'Othellos' built around their Iagos by Peter Marks

What makes Iago seethe? The eternal mystery of his mortal loathing of Othello isn't totally cracked in Folger Theatre's impressive, compulsively watchable staging of the tragedy. But in Ian …

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Monday, July 18, 2011

'Oklahoma!' makes a joyful return to Arena Stage - The Washington Post by Peter Marks

That bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around. "Oklahoma!," the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking as s…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:14PM[SHARE]
Friday, April 22, 2011

Theater review: 'Jerusalem' on Broadway - The Washington Post by Peter Marks

The opening Thursday night of Jez Butterworth's remarkable "Jerusalem" solidifies what looks to be the most competitive Tony race for best play in years.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Review: Shakespeare Theatre's unsteady 'Cymbeline' by Peter Marks

Measured against his greatest dramas, "Cymbeline" counts as an iffy achievement for Shakespeare, what with subplots recycled from weightier efforts and characters lacking in lightning-bolt i…

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Monday, February 7, 2011

'Spider-Man' on Broadway: No superpowers needed to sniff out this stinker by Peter Marks

NEW YORK - If you're going to spend $65 million and not end up with the best musical of all time, I suppose there's a perverse distinction in being one of the worst.

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Friday, February 4, 2011

'Black Watch' review: Scottish battalion's Iraq story is authentic, astonishing by Peter Marks

The thunderous aftershocks of "Black Watch" are not merely those set off by the realistic sounds of mortars and rockets exploding in the convulsed soil of Iraq. No, the jolts delivered in th…

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Israeli and Palestinian threads, bound by emotion in Theater J's 'Haifa' by Peter Marks

Two mothers fighting over one son seems reliable arithmetic for dramatic fireworks. When one of the women is Palestinian and the other Israeli, the results are mathematically devastating.

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