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Apologia Review: Stockard Channing as Great Idealist, Bad Mother
In Apologia, the well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatriate and noted...
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Review: D. W. Gregory’s Dirty Pictures at Baltimore Theatre Project
Racy photographs stoke the mayhem and comedy of local playwright D.W. Gregory’s world premiere play, Dirty Pictures, but its true catalyst lies in finding beauty in the ordinary and overlooked. At...
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Review: New Guidelines for Peaceful Times at Spooky Action Theatre
The title, New Guidelines for Peaceful Times, sounds like a satirical take on a dystopian world. But it’s not. It’s a much more earnest, honest, and delicate look at how war—the internal and the...
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Review: The Fall. Members of a student uprising in Cape Town here at Studio.
Imagine a large group of college students, surrounded by the international media, anxiously awaiting the moment when a statue depicting a key figure from their country’s racist past is toppled and...
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Review: Aida, stellar performances in Constellation’s standout production
There are only about a dozen cast members onstage at the exhilarating closing of Aida’s first act, but given their vocal power and emotional heft, you’d swear there were 30. Constellation Theater...
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Mother of the Maid Review: Glenn Close as Joan of Arc’s mother
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offering the...
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What happens to a community after a mass shooting? A look into Blight by John...
Choreographer, actor Pauline Lamb The rolling world premiere of Blight, a new play by playwright and DC Theatre Scene writer John Bavoso, is being produced by Pinky Swear Productions at the Anacostia...
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Dance Review: Deborah Colker’s Dog Without Feathers, enigmatic and beguiling
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker’s Dog Without Feathers (Cão Sem Plumas) at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater though Saturday is a small spectacle, but it’s a powerful spectacle and one with...
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‘Actually’ may change how you see the next “he said/she said” case
Reading the description of Anna Ziegler’s thought-provoking play, Actually, it’s easy to think the story was ripped right from today’s headlines. After all, the plot follows two freshmen at Princeton...
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Gloria A Life Review: Stories from Gloria Steinem’s life and the women’s...
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Life to lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially designated Act II of a...
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Review: Frankenstein, part of We Happy Few’s Horror Rep
We Happy Few specializes in bringing classical plays to life- and what better classic to choose this Halloween season than Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror story, Frankenstein? WHF’s devisors evoke not...
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ROOMS, a Rock Romance review: Ten years later, fall in love again at MetroStage
What to call the rare and precious experience of sitting in the darkness of a theatre where something has broken out of its own self and taken wing? Some say a magical work of art is one that defies...
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Review: Mozart’s Figaro in Four Quartets from In Series
Mozart’s delightful Marriage of Figaro has been a perennial favorite, not only produced frequently by opera companies, but its material has been poured over, parsed, and mastered as part of any...
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Review: Henry V, commedia-style, finds the funny but loses the tragedy
It is worth noting that almost all the Shakespeare histories are tragedies, and almost all the kings whose stories he recounts are fools or knaves or both. The one exception (aside from the obsequious...
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Review: Blight, a dark comedy about guilt and real estate from Pinky Swear...
When a 15 year old boy leaves home with a gun, heads out to kill as many people as he can, say, at, a Planned Parentood clinic, and then kills himself, who should take the blame? The child himself?...
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Review: Sing to Me Now. Overworked muse seeks intern
In the promotional materials for their production of Iris Dauterman’s Sing To Me Now, Rorschach Theatre has been highlighting one particular quote from the script: “Every second you hesitate, every...
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Anna Ziegler’s Actually, a provocative counterpoint to the issue of sexual...
Anna Ziegler’s (Photograph 51) new two-person play Actually sets out as an intimate exploration of one of our society’s most taboo, yet timely, topics—sexual consent among two young people in an age...
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Review: The Lifespan of a Fact, Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby...
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry News said...
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What’s international director Ethan McSweeny doing in small town Staunton, VA?
– Ethan McSweeny’s been handed the keys to the American Shakespeare Center. Here’s what he plans to do with them. – How the Job Found the Man He knew of the place, but he didn’t know much about it. It...
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Bracing new works from San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival
A meditation on the arc of a lifetime. A message piece about soul-eroding communication technology. A frenetic exploration of Jung’s notion of male and female psychic elements. Such was the heady fare...
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