Few people would argue that when it came to communicating the dense world of science, no one did it better than the astronomer Carl Sagan. With his popular 1980 public TV series "Cosmos: A Personal…
Nobody doesn't love Carol Burnett. That was the takeaway from the Kennedy Center's Oct. 20 ceremony honoring Burnett with its 16th annual Mark Twain Prize for significant impact to American comedy…
Estelle Parsons is the spitting, shouting — but by no means cursing — image of irascibility in "The Velocity of Autumn," a tender-hearted dramedy by playwright Eric Coble ("Bright Ideas") about the…
Actress Shirley MacLaine, singer/songwriter Billy Joel, opera singer Martina Arroyo, jazz legend Herbie Hancock and musician/songwriter Carlos Santana will receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors.
Who needs a helicopter anyway? In an inventive and satisfying remount of the tuner "Miss Saigon" for its 275-seat main stage, Arlington, Va.'s, Signature Theater turns the theatrical spectacle into…
Kwame Kwei-Armah's play "Beneatha's Place" has turned legit industry heads as part of an ambitious project at Baltimore's Center Stage, which is presenting the new title, inspired by "A Raisin in the…
Comedian Carol Burnett has been selected by Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Award will be presented Oct. 20 at a kudofest to be…
WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center will produce the world premiere of new tuner "Little Dancer," with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and score by Stephen Flaherty. Susan Stroman ("The Scottsboro Boys,"…
WASHINGTON — Signature Theater's sassy revival of "Dreamgirls" and Folger Theater's wild western take on "The Taming of the Shrew" drew top laurels April 8 at the Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.'s annual…
“Ann,” the play written by and starring Holland Taylor, opened March 7 on Broadway after a tour that included a stop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The following is Paul Harris’s review of…
WASHINGTON — The 2013-14 theater season in Washington, D.C. is shaping up to include a number of titles that might interest legiters in Gotham and beyond, with the recently announced pre-Broadway…
