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Take Five! with 2018 Helen Hayes Award nominated writers and lyricists
A look, a memory, a word sparks an idea. Characters emerge; they tell their stories, and from their voices a play or musical insists on being born. Then the hard work begins. Playwrights and...
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Next of Kin theatre festival plays tribute to sci-fi writer Octavia Butler
Writer Octavia Butler is that rare African American woman who found success in the normally male-dominated science fiction literature genre; her work is beloved by fans of all ages and races. She’s...
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Review: Druid performs Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
The accidental Samuel Beckett festival now going on in Washington (Scena Theatre’s three one-acts, Arcturus Theatre’s two one-acts) has been made internationally lustrous by acclaimed Irish director...
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Review: A spectacle that even muggles can...
What if Harry Potter hadn’t existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the five and a half hour play now on Broadway about two generations of Potters and their friends and enemies,...
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Review: Girlfriend musical at Signature Theatre
Girlfriend, a distinctly gay love story built around a specific alt-rock album, delivers a universal narrative of first time young love and the music that makes the teen years survivable. Jimmy...
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Take 5! with Helen Hayes Award nominated actors
Actors are Mediums, channeling the voices of the playwright and director through their bodies and psyches to etch a character indelibly into an audience’s memory. Actors responding: Alessandra...
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Druid actors: Beckett was having a bit of fun with Waiting for Godot. Come...
Based in Galway, Irish theatre company Druid is known for its epic productions of large-scale works such as DruidSynge, all six John Millington Synge plays performed in a single day, DruidMurphy, a...
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The Iceman Cometh Review: Denzel Washington disappoints the drunks
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope’s saloon are drawn to...
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Review: Synetic’s Titus Andronicus, bloodless yet chilling
Take out the words, and it turns out you can make Shakespeare’s most violent play even more brutal and terrifying. (l-r) Alex Mills (Chiron) , Irina Tsikurishvili (Tamora, Queen of the Goths) Irina...
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Take Five! with Helen Hayes nominated Designers
Designers enliven the dark stage with light, color, texture and sound. Take 5! with designers: Alejo Vietti, Cory Pattak, Debra Kim Sivigny, Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden, Helen Q Huang, Jason Lyons,...
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Review: Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt
Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt is a bounty filled with madcap fun and laughter. The fact that it’s part of a seven-theatre...
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Keegan’s next season packs two big musicals in its 7 show adult season, and 2...
Keegan’s 2018-2019 season will begin next September with a reprise — of John Strand’s Lincolnesque, which Keegan first ran in 2009. A young Congressional aide, desperate to save the campaign of his...
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Review: new musical Snow Child at Arena Stage
Arena Stage’s world-premiere musical Snow Child tries to be many things at once—the personal story of a married couple struggling to cope with the loss of a child; a fairy tale incorporating elements...
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Review: Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at Studio Theatre
There are few topics more horrifying and less funny than one’s parents’ sexuality. But Qui Nguyen, one of the hottest American playwrights of the moment, has embraced the embarrassment of parental...
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Review: Alice in Wonderland at Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre
Alice in Wonderland is so well known that it’s easy to forget the original two books—Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass—were written in 1865 in Queen Victoria’s...
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Take Five! with Helen Hayes nominated Directors
Directors call everyone together. They first create a safe place for everyone to explore the text and what they can bring to it. They are the shamans, shape-shifting their own presences – sometimes...
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Review: Derek Jeter Makes the Play from Best Medicine
It is 2011, and we are in a tattered 4th-floor walkup in Maspeth, Queens. The lights bathe a gigantic poster of Derek Jeter, a Hall-of-Fame quality shortstop who played for the New York Yankees at the...
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Review: Orwells’ 1984 by Scena Theatre
Time has long moved past the actual date of George Orwells’ classic novel, 1984, yet the future it envisioned when written in 1948 seems more prescient than ever. Director Robert McNamara makes a lot...
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Review: True West by Rep Stage goes for the comedy
Sam Shepard’s obituary in the New York Times describes his plays as hallucinatory, though his Pulitzer Prize finalist, True West, is relatively close to naturalistic. Critics often count it as part of...
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Take 5! with Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographers
A choreographer paints with bodies in space and in so doing, brings high wattage to a theatrical work. Take Five! with Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographers Dell Howlett, Denis Jones, Dody...
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