Gary Tischler

Unless you’re a classical music and opera fanatic, you may not have heard of Joyce DiDonato. But take my ...

Theater Critics love “Tynan,” the one-man show about the acerbic, outrageous, revolutionary British drama critic-as-hedonistic celebrity now at the Studio ...

Forget what you thought you knew about Irish lit, Irish mores and Irish culture; the stuff you learned by way ...

When Kimberly Schraf, Holly Twyford and Nancy Robinette come back onto the set to take their final bows for their ...

Holly Twyford, Nancy Robinette and Kimberly Schraf are the matrons of the Washington theater scene, now performing together for the first time in Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Daughters" at Ford's Theater.

When the world teems with upheaval, oddities get overlooked. The revolution in Cairo has been an uprising to unnerve every ...

Zimmerman has managed, over a couple of decades of directing and writing, to create a whole new kind of play, as yet difficult to fit into a descriptive category. And yet you come back to it: children, fairytales, storytelling, tales told around a campfire, the first writings of man. It’s that kind of thing, but made complicated, and made deep.

This is the time of year when Americans think about presidents. Usually, it’s about George Washington, the first president, and Abraham Lincoln, the most haunting, memorable president. This year, it’s worthwhile to think a little broader, farther and wider.

War plays are tough, and not just because war is hell.

With perhaps the exception of Shakespeare’s “Henry V ...

At the outset, it needs to be said that I am not an expert or aficionado. I can’t even ...

Mary Zimmerman is back. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Zimmerman’s "Arabian Nights" comes to Arena Stage fresh ...

When is a theater company more than a theater company? When does a play become something more than a play ...

Has President Obama, in the hot political jargon of the day, regained his mojo? In other words: is the Barack ...

For a while this month, you were forgiven if you saw the banners and towers of Camelot appear out of ...