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GALA Hispanic Theatre’s new season includes another big bilingual musical
GALA Hispanic Theatre will mark its next season, its 43rd, with eyes on modern classics: a play which takes Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea as a jumping-off point, the musical version of the...
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Review: Akerley’s new Interstellar Ghost Hour a space time puzzler
Iris is an astronaut. She travels through space. Iris is also a chrononaut. She travels through time. And that’s where her troubles begin as the protagonist of The Interstellar Ghost Hour, Kathleen...
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Imagination Stage’s season features a fairy tale musical and plenty of adventure
Cheese, wicked stepmothers, wicked stepfathers, national emergency and whatever your imagination can come up with — Imagination Stage will this season be probing all the themes which fascinate the...
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Review: Shakespeare Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet boldly conceived, superbly...
“These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder / Which, as they kiss, consume.” Friar Lawrence’s words ring pulse-quickeningly true in Shakespeare Theatre...
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How Pointless springboarded from Lorca’s puppet show to their own Don Cristóbal
One of the great perks of being in the theatre community is getting little sneak peaks at your friends’ shows. When you meet for drinks or run into one another at various places around the city, you...
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Review: Rainbow Theatre debuts In the Closet, touching, hilarious,...
It’s become a truism in the queer community that coming out of the closet isn’t a singular event. And yet, the very expression “coming out” conjures up images of individuals in their teens or early...
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Review: Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce at Constellation Theatre Company
This review, written by Bob Ashby and published on DC Metro Theater Arts, appears here with permission. In Jonathan Dahm Robertson’s set for Constellation Theatre Company’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s...
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Free Page-to-Stage Festival expecting big audiences Labor Day Weekend at The...
In celebration of the 17th annual Page-to-Stage Festival, more than 60 theater companies—both new and established—will ascend to The Kennedy Center this coming weekend (Sept. 1-3) to offer a series of...
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A printable schedule for Page-to-Stage 2018
This year’s Page-to-Stage Festival will feature new events – from yoga to a Looping class to more shows and events for kids as well as readings from over 60 theatre companies. To print the schedule,...
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Review: Sondheim’s Passion. Signature’s ravishing production
Actress Natascia Diaz’s bold performance breathes transformative life into Fosca—one of musical theater’s most remarkable creations—in Signature Theatre’s resplendent revival of Stephen Sondheim’s...
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Neil Simon. A high-brow’s tribute to the last of the red hot comedy playwrights
Neil Simon has died. As a playwright, a book-writer of musicals, a gag-writer for the golden age of television, a screenwriter, and a legendary “play doctor” (his ability to fix problems with and...
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Review: The Ice Child, a modern once upon a time fairy tale
Sometimes it is just easiest to say it up front as clearly as possible: I loved The Ice Child—an old-school-esque “once upon a time” fairy tale about very real-world, right now issues that treats its...
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Review: Marie and Rosetta, a divine musical tribute. Before Aretha, Sister...
(l-r) Ayana Reed (Marie) and Roz White (Rosetta) in Marie and Rosetta at Mosaic Theater. (Photo: Stan Barouh) It’s 1946 Mississippi and recording artist Sister Rosetta Tharpe is considering adding a...
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Like Water for Chocolate. GALA brings the romantic movie to the stage for its...
Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel scored a huge hit in 1989 with the release of her debut novel, which became a New York Times best seller, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), a romance...
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A look into Rainbow’s In the Closet with its director and actors
“The closet” symbolizes an important moment for many LGBTQ+ folks. It has myriad meanings and significance to the members of the community. Playwright Sigmund Fuchs, through In the Closet, has...
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Theatre tickets for just $15 or $35? It must be Theatre Week
One of DC theatergoers’ favorite times of year is back, as theatreWashington presents the popular Theatre Week, Sept. 12 through Oct. 7, with 26 productions being staged throughout the region....
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Edwin Lee Gibson on playing Dick Gregory in Turn Me Loose
As Edwin Lee Gibson prepares for the first performance of Turn Me Loose, a look into the life of comedian Dick Gregory, September 6th at Arena Stage, his dressing room is full of photos from Gregory’s...
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Review: Fugard’s Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek a lesson for a divided America
This latest work by Athol Fugard, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, is a masterpiece on so many levels. Set in two distinct times, it explores the oppressive impact of apartheid in South Africa and...
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How to Win a Race War: How The Klunch will take on white supremacy fiction
How can liberal activists diminish the power of the Alt Right, a rebranded digital army of white supremacists whose influence manifests in real domestic terrorism? For starters, they can plumb white...
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Michael Kahn’s successor named: London visionary director Simon Godwin
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has ended its nearly year-long hunt for Artistic Director Michael Kahn’s successor with the appointment of London’s National Theatre Associate Director Simon Godwin, the...
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