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School of Rock Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Returns with a class of rock stars
In his first original musical on Broadway in a decade, Andrew Lloyd Webber has chosen to adapt a movie with a plot that could hardly be sillier, and supplies a new score that could hardly be more...
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The Santaland Diaries (review)
For those of you already stuffed to the gills with sugary-sweet Christmas extravaganzas, might I offer a little holiday antidote to the saccharine overload? David Sedaris’ memories of working as a...
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Motown the Musical National Tour at the National Theatre (review)
Motown the Musical has thundered into the National Theatre here in DC for a holiday run. The Detroit label that gave starts to artists like Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye, graces the stage with its...
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Pericles cast talk about keeping it fresh on the road
The cast of Pericles, now onstage at the Folger Theatre, will have lived through countless famines, shipwrecks, and tournaments by the time they complete the play’s three-venue run. Beginning at the...
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The Klunch opens with George Is Dead (review)
George is dead, the victim of an exceptionally bad day on the intermediate slope at Vail, so his widow Doreen (Kerri Rambow), a wonderfully self-absorbed rich person, needs to make this somebody else’s...
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Bad Jews returns to Studio Theatre (review)
Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, the best-selling play in Studio Theatre’s history, makes a welcome return less than a year later. Often described as a savage comedy, this remounted production manages to be...
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DCTS 2015 Gift Guide for theatre lovers
What to give the theatre lovers in your life this holiday season? We’re here to help with suggestions from the sublime to the silly, and prices as low as $5. Prices shown are as of Dec 7, 2015. More...
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Seussical the Musical at NextStop. Oh the things they can think
As a devotee of Dr. Seuss for many years (I even did my college essay in Theodor Geisel’s Dr. Seuss-ese!), I was looking forward to NextStop’s interpretation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 2000...
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Playwright takes the spotlight as Dickens in one man Christmas Carol
New York City playwright Greg Oliver Bodine remembers sitting in his living room as a child around Christmas time, watching the 1951 movie Scrooge starring Alastair Sim as the crotchety Victorian...
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Musical theatre history gets made tonight at the Davenport. Watch it free...
Daddy Long Legs, the two person musical now playing off-Broadway, will be live streamed from New York tonight from the Davenport Theatre on 45th Street. While we’ve become accustomed to viewing London...
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Renee Calarco develops play foreseeing the aftermath of home grown terrorism...
The DC playwriters’ collective The Welders is taking a new direction with their latest offering, Our National Museum of the Unforeseen Tragedy. While their previous productions have been full stagings...
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A Year with Frog and Toad at Imagination Stage (review)
Imagination Stage’s A Year with Frog and Toad is exactly what the title implies: two friends have adventures during the four seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter- and a long sleep of hibernation...
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Musical of O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi makes its area debut at MET
Glancing though director Suzanne Beal’s notes of the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s script of The Gifts of the Magi, you’ll see entries about her memories dating back to when she was a youngster of the...
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Too Much Light’s back and blazing at Woolly Mammoth (review)
The Neo-Futurists are at it again. Once more they are taking Woolly Mammoth’s stage by storm with their mentally experimental performance of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. The show has been...
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Salome – guilty or innocent? Tribunes ruling at Shakespeare Theatre
When Salomé, having won her era’s version of Dancing with the Stars, selected as her prize an all-expenses trip to the afterlife for poor John the Baptist, was she engaged in a criminal conspiracy with...
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Michael C. Hall in Lazarus Review: Bowie’s First Musical
Lazarus, the hottest ticket right now in New York, is a startling new musical, featuring 18 songs written by David Bowie (four of them new), a production directed by auteur-du-jour Ivo van Hove that’s...
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Center Stage launches guerrilla theatre videos responding to recent killings
With screenings of theatrical productions becoming more popular – London’s NT Live just reported that Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in Hamlet has brought in just over $4.5 million from world wide...
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Stage Kiss at Round House Theatre (review)
When the leading gent in Round House’s regional premiere of Stage Kiss goes on a mid-Act I rant, he declares that audiences only put up with theatrical smooching because kisses provide a sense of...
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Wish List at The Hub (review)
The Hub’s black box theatre offers an intimate experience, magnified in Wish List’s vanishing of a fourth wall. The three performers – Rose McConnell, Katie Jeffries, and Sasha Olinick – open the...
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The Gospel of Lovingkindness at Mosaic Theater (review)
The most outstanding thing about Marcus Gardley’s The Gospel of Lovingkindness is that it wrestles full-body with the most troubling issues of our times yet still is a joy and a treat to participate...
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