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Win tickets to the National Theatre of London’s screening of The Habit of Art
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pairs of...
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August: Osage County pulled from Christmas release. Here’s the new date
The release date for the highly anticipated film adaptation of August: Osage County has been changed. The dark comedy about the highly dysfunctional Weston clan assembling in rural Oklahoma was due to...
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August: Osage County – a great play becomes a captivating movie
One of the daughters in Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County thanks God that we can’t see the future because if we could “we’d never get out of bed.” The future of August: Osage County is as clear as an...
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Valentine’s treat: Broadway’s Romeo and Juliet hits area movie houses Feb 13...
The Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet has closed, but not before Screenvision and BroadwayHD recorded the December 8, 2013 performance. The partnership is now bringing that performance to movie...
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First look at the remake of Annie
The first trailer for the hotly-awaited reimagined and remixed version of the musical Annie is now available, revealing details about how screenwriters Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna, and Emma...
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Win tickets to The Tempest starring Christopher Plummer, March 11
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pairs of...
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Win tickets to see Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me at West End Cinema
ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME is opening Friday, March 14 at the West End Cinema, 2301 M Street NW, Washington, DC. Update: Our passes are taken, but we encourage you to see this documentary about one of...
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me – review
“I’m here!” Elaine Stritch proclaims in Chiemi Karasawa’s 2013 documentary ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME and she isn’t just whistling Sondheim. She takes a stand against the notion that old age is some sort...
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Center Stage’s My America gets a July 4 release on Fandor
Independence Day will offer more than fireworks for theater lovers, as a screening of Center Stage’s acclaimed digital theater project My America will stream at Fandor.com on the Fourth of July, with a...
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Roman Polanski’s film: Venus in Fur
Never mess with a goddess. That’s the lesson of Venus in Fur, director Roman Polanski’s frisky and taut film adaptation of the 2010 play by David Ives that brought kink back to Broadway way before...
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The Globe’s Twelfth Night comes to Angelika Pop-Up
On Thursday, September 18, at 7 PM, and Wednesday, September 24 at 2PM, Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, 550 Penn Street NE, will present the filmed version of the Globe Theatre’s acclaimed 2012...
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Win free tickets to RSC’s Two Gentlemen of Verona at Angelika Mosaic
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pairs of...
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Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption
A new feature documentary called Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption follows a troupe of actors on a five-year journey performing Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi—which notoriously combusted in...
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Three new movie musicals coming soon. View the trailers.
For too much of my life Hollywood executives were gun-shy about making new movies based upon Broadway musicals. Despite the occasional hit like Grease (1978), the prevailing sentiment was that such...
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Movie review: Into the Woods: Disney gets it right. Almost
My God…they’re actually getting this right! There is no more terrifying emotion to experience than hope, and, within the opening moments of Disney’s long-awaited film version of Into the Woods, hope...
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Movie review: Annie
Leapin’ Lizards! “It’s a Hard-Knock Life” and “Tomorrow” have been auto-tuned to the point where the lyrics sound like they’re being sung by a toaster oven rather than by the optimistic moppet Annie....
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Movie review: The Last Five Years
Once upon a time, in 2001, there was a musical. Beloved by dozens, this teeny-tiny song cycle told the story of an ordinary, five year relationship in a highly unusual way – from the woman’s point of...
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HBO’s All the Way starring Bryan Cranston (review)
So — all right, you missed All the Way at Arena Stage and you are forced to your TV as a consolation prize. I’m here to tell you that as consolation prizes go, this is a pretty good one. In the HBO...
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Don’t miss these stars on Starz: Hopkins and McKellen in The Dresser
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen,” speaks the Fool in King Lear. The action of The Dresser takes place over one night before, during, and after a performance of that venerated...
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Simon Helberg. Odd man out in Florence Foster Jenkins? Hardly.
One should probably not use the phrase “steals the show” to describe the performance of an actor in a movie featuring Meryl Streep as the leading lady, for such a thing is almost certainly impossible....
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