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Casting for Michel Legrande’s Amour, NextStop stages a reunion from its...
NextStop Theatre is celebrating its 30th year, a history that took root as the Elden Street Players in 1988, when the newly-formed community theatre took over a Herndon-based warehouse and created an...
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Review: The Story of the Gun by Mike Daisey
What do you get when you take one of America’s most controversial theatre artists and its most divisive political issue and put them in a room together in our nation’s capital? In the case of Mike...
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Review: Legrand musical Amour
Perhaps you have never heard of Amour, the musical with a score by the prolific French composer Michel Legrand. Perhaps it was champagne when the masses wanted beer back in 2002 when it opened on...
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Review: The Color Purple’s ‘Push da Button’ a showstopper at The Kennedy Center
Trimmed up and in glorious voice on all accounts, the national tour of The Color Purple has moved into the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center. And Hamilton, packing them in next door in the Opera...
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Review: Dinner makes its devastatingly funny area debut at 4615
Imagine that George and Martha from Virginia Woolf invited the squabbling couples from God of Carnage over for a spot of dinner and some Hitchcock-style mystery and you pretty much have Dinner, a...
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Curt Boehm talks about Keegan’s answer to this summer of hate, The Bridges of...
“This is a good time for this piece to be in this city,”director Kurt Boehm says of The Bridges of Madison County, now onstage at Keegan Theatre. No matter what side of the political aisle you are on,...
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Review: The Bridges of Madison County at Keegan Theatre
From Kurt Boehm’s direction and nuanced yet sure performances of the leads to Michael Innocenti’s evocative gorgeous lighting and Patrick Lord’s projections, Keegan Theatre’s The Bridges of Madison...
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The best of the New York Musical Festival. Producers take note.
Alzheimer’s, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musicals – a mix of...
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Be More Chill Review: Sci-Fi Fantasy of Teen Angst Makes it to Off-Broadway
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees himself as a...
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On the intimacy of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Signature director Matthew...
No one can put music and lyrics together the way Stephen Sondheim has done – astonishingly – for decades, since the mid-1950’s. In my interview with Matthew Gardiner, who is directing a new production...
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Review: Douglas Turner Ward’s Happy Ending at Anacostia Playhouse
You may have heard of Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 Day of Absence, but might not be as aware of his other one-act play that was often performed as a full evening. Here’s a chance to finally catch his...
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Public Theater’s Stephanie Ybarra will be new Artistic Director of Baltimore...
Stephanie Ybarra, The Public Theater’s Director of Special Artistic Projects, will be the new Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, the company has announced. She succeeds Kwame Kwei-Armah, who...
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Happy Ending, a 1965 comedy, marks the beginning for promising black actors...
Is Washington, D.C. ready to support Black theatre produced by a new Black theatre company? I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ella Davis, co-founder of All About the Drama Theatre Group and...
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Natascia Diaz stars in Sondheim’s Passion, a role she nearly declined
Natascia Diaz has wowed DC audiences for a decade, but when Signature Theatre offered her the lead role of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, she hesitated. The popular actress has earned Helen Hayes...
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Chris Henley’s notebook: 7 smashing NYC summer shows and the stars and...
School was out. Daddy had some days off. Seemed like a good time to take the kids up to New York City — and then to go back again the following week to see some theatre not suitable for (then almost)...
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Review: Pretty Woman on Broadway, fewer charms, almost no surprises
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hit 1990...
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Gettin’ The Band Back Together Review: Tacky but Fun Musical About Middle...
From its first moments, Gettin’ The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clichéd...
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Washington Stage Guild foregoes Shaw for a season of regional and world...
Washington Stage Guild, well known as the premier DC producer of the works of George Bernard Shaw, won’t be producing any of the master’s plays this year. Instead, it will serve up four contemporary...
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Review: Pointless turns Garcia Lorca’s puppet show into a delightfully absurd...
Productions that are the most fun ask their audiences to buckle up, embrace the madness, and hang on for a wild ride. Pointless Theatre has such a carnival of entertainment in their latest offering,...
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This season, WSC Avant Bard puts the “Avant” in the Bard and beyond.
Love the classics, but think they’re old hat? WSC Avant Bard has something for you this year: two brand-new reimagined classics (one by the Bard), plus one classic from our own time. The WSC season...
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