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Review: The True. Edie Falco as Kirsten E. Gillibrand’s foul-mouthed...
The devotion that Dorothea “Polly” Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense that rumor has...
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Review: Svanda Theatre’s Four Plays from Prague: The Good and the True
Svanda Theatre has journeyed to Washington from Prague in a residency that includes ‘Four Plays from Prague’ in repertory – works that confront us with difficult periods of history when humans were...
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Review: Pramkicker at Taffety Punk
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Jude who kicked a pram (a baby carriage). An empty one, don’t worry, but nonetheless Jude has to complete an anger management program to avoid charges, and...
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Review: Living and Dying with Tricia McCauley, moving forward from...
She was on her way to an annual Christmas day party and never made it. The news of her murder shook all who knew Tricia McCauley as a beloved actress, a precious yoga instructor, a fellow student,...
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Review: Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Toby’s Dinner Theatre is THE place and its joint is jumping thanks to the infectious melodies of the late, great Mr. Thomas Waller, a.k.a Fats Waller. The show is Ain’t Misbehavin’, one of the most...
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Lincolnesque at Keegan Theatre. What if a political speech writer had the...
“I like to write about the things that matter, whether they matter emotionally, or whether they matter dramatically, or whether they matter politically. If you can get all those in one, that’s...
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Review: The Last American Hammer from UrbanArias
What an opening for an opera! After a low tremolo on the bass and some nice string section writing as violins, viola, and cello join in, suddenly on stage appears a bearded, para-military dude, as...
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Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Director Judith Ivey puts her stamp on...
Hold onto summer heat and humid emotions just a little while longer with Baltimore Center Stage’s juicy production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The lies we tell ourselves so we can sleep and the lies...
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Review: How to Win a Race War, a 3 hour white supremacy lit class
Before you read this review, I’d like to ask a favor of you: open a new browser tab and navigate to your favorite news/politics site and spend five minutes browsing the stories there. Seriously, I’ll...
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Review: Blueberries for Sal, a new kids musical at Adventure Theatre
After napping on a long drive to Glen Echo Park on a rainy day, it was time to wake up the Shark. The Shark is my 20 month old daughter who, like her namesake, seems to need constant movement in order...
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José Andrés’ Beefsteak donating to DCTS on World Veggies Day
Breaking news – On October 1, (World Vegetarian Day) José Andrés’ Beefsteak at Dupont Circle will donate 10% of its proceeds for food served between 2pm and 6pm to DC Theatre Scene. All you need do is...
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Review: Lincolnesque at Keegan Theatre
We often imagine Lincoln to have been an amiable, principled man, worn down by war and illness. Perhaps his own and, certainly, that of his sons and wife. Which is why Brandon McCoy’s Francis makes...
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DC Area hosts most popular new plays in America
In its annual October Season Preview issue, American Theatre magazine has released its lists of the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays (11 this year due to a tie) . Ten of those plays have either already...
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Another white man? Shakespeare Theatre’s staff speaks honestly about new...
Recently, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced the results of their exhaustive search for for an artistic director to replace Michael Kahn: the young British director Simon Godwin. Naturally, the...
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Review: Bernhardt/Hamlet. Janet McTeer as Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
At the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of Hamlet,...
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The Nap Review. Some Laughs, A Big Twist, A Lot of Snooker.
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the British game of...
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Review: Signature Theatre’s Heisenberg is not just another love story
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time playwright Simon Stephens’s two-person play, Heisenberg, is far from your typical love story. When Georgie (Rachel Zampelli), a 40ish American expat...
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Review: Born Yesterday, the 1940s comedy at Ford’s Theatre takes serious aim...
Wow. Just wow. Born Yesterday, a Tony-award winning play written in 1946 by Garson Kanin, feels likes a premonition come to fruition. Shortly after World War II, tycoon Harry Brock (Edward Gero) goes...
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Girl From the North Country Review: Dylan’s Music Set In His Hometown
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boarding house in...
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Review: She Stoops to Conquer at Chesapeake Shakespeare
In Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s She Stoops to Conquer, a skilled cast with a script that has stayed light and funny for over two hundred years makes for a great night out, hour after hour after...
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