Most theatergoers have a passing acquaintance with Anton Chekhov’s characters — that interminably suffering lot of 19th century Russian aristocrats and the even quirkier peasant folk that attend to their angst....

It’s not much of a secret — Holland Taylor loves Ann Richards.

And it’s little wonder why: the former governor of Texas who died in 2006 was a larger-than-life personality, a political...

Try concocting a story around a corporate military base in Iraq, dabbling into torture as a means of retrieving information, add a young first-time-out ingénue as interrogator, an intractable administrator and at...

(Editor’s Note: Read on for an exclusive interview with American singer and actress Kirsten Holly Smith.)

Dusty Springfield, remember her — that sexy songstress of the swinging 60s and beyond that...

In 1960s British cinema, an archetype developed of the frumpy or middle-aged woman who, brought to a dead stop by her boring or chaotic life, decided to change things with neither grace nor guile. In a series of...

Ever since 9/11, the American public’s fascination with the possibility of a post-apocalyptic, doomsday scenario in our country has manifested itself time and time again in our artistic output (think Cormac...

What happens when you take an opera, and throw everything conventional about it out of the window? Get rid of the plot. Trade soaring music and lyrics for soothing repetition. Tell the audience that, due to a lack of...

In Craig Wright’s play, Grace, currently premiering on Broadway, “Grace” is not an angry housewife set on mortal revenge. Rather, it’s a message-loaded melodrama of what can happen when two otherwise...

The line between right and wrong can often be blurred by politics and nowhere more so than in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The play centers on a pair of brothers on different sides of a moral debate. At...

If you’re smart enough and talented enough to boot, it doesn’t take that long to grow up. Constellation Theatre Company’s bright revival of Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn at Source in Washington, DC is a case...