Legit Review: ‘Beneatha’s Place’
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…
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Carol Burnett Takes Kennedy Center’s Twain Prize
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…
Kennedy Center to Produce New Ahrens/Flaherty Musical
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,"…
‘Dreamgirls,’ ‘Shrew’ Draw Honors at D.C. Hayes Awards
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…
Legit Review: Holland Taylor Gets Feisty in ‘Ann’
“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…
‘Beaches’ Shores Up D.C. Theater Season
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…
Olney Theater gets new leader
OLNEY, Md. -- Jason Loewith, a director and librettist ("Adding Machine") and head of the D.C.-based National New Play Network, has been named artistic director of the Olney (Md.) Theater Center, the…
Kennedy Center set to expand
The Kennedy Center will build a major addition, expected to cost $100 million, to its iconic building along the Potomac River in order to accommodate needed rehearsal and education spaces as well as…
Kennedy Center hunting for new leader
The Kennedy Center has officially formed a search committee to fill the CEO role occupied for the past 12 years by Michael Kaiser, who will ankle at the end of his contract in December 2014.
Review: ‘Pullman Porter Blues’
"Pullman Porter Blues," a play with music co-produced by D.C.'s Arena Stage and the Seattle Repertory Theater, is an earnest effort to showcase the pivotal role of railroad pioneer George Pullman's…
