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American Moor review. Keith Hamilton Cobb in a magnetic performance
Keith Hamilton Cobb (or at least, the actor he’s playing) isn’t exactly afraid that his director might accuse him of playing the race card when it comes to his opinions over Othello. Once that young,...
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School of Rock: The Musical review
I normally don’t like dumb movies of the kind in which the actor Jack Black has made a conspicuous brand. But School of Rock, the sleeper hit from 2003, wasn’t that dumb—it was funny and sweet, a...
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Review: Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights gets the Pointless treatment in Visions...
The Pointless Theatre collaborators are skilled adaptors of familiar stories. Using a unique visual approach to theater and storytelling, the company finds the pulse points, the underlying heart beats...
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Review: Submission, a dystopian view of Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Europe
Do you think we have problems, with our enormous partisan divide? It is 2022, and the French are electing a new President. In one corner, the National Front’s Marine Le Pen (Stacy Whittle), France’s...
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Jeffrey review. Paul Rudnick’s comedy of love in the time of AIDS
There’s no such thing as love without risk. Risk of rejection. Risk of your partner finding someone else. But for gay men in the ‘80s and ‘90s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, love and sex carried...
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Admissions review. White liberals defend their privileges in Joshua Harmon’s...
A couple of weeks ago, the satire site McSweeney’s published an article entitled, “How Can I Help to Promote Diversity Without Relinquishing Any of My Power?” This title alone could serve as an...
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Review: Paula Vogel’s comedy The Baltimore Waltz
Writers excavate the marrow of life in order to create their fictional universes, and thus are sometimes required to mine their own marrow for their art. So it was with Paula Vogel, who lost her...
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Gulf View Drive review at Washington Stage Guild. Masterful.
For Washington Stage Guild patrons, the downtown theatre company’s current production offers a bit of closure. After introducing DC audiences to a complicated young couple in Last Train to Nibroc in...
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Kleptocracy review. A Russian oligarch becomes Putin’s enemy
Kenneth Lin wrote for “House of Cards” back when “House of Cards” was cool. But what denizens of our town know is that, for the terrifying and the bizarre, there ain’t nothin’ like the real thing,...
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Ford’s Theatre’s Twelve Angry Men fails to follow through on its promises
Sheldon Epp’s Twelve Angry Men, his directorial debut at the historic Ford’s Theatre, promised a present-day take on the 1954 legal drama that follows jury deliberations in the murder trial of a...
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RENT Live this Sunday on Fox
The Fox Network will broadcast a live production of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent this Sunday, January 27, from 8 to 11 PM EST (8 to 11 on tape delay for those in the Pacific Time Zone), the Network...
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Review: Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse marks the promising debut of Prologue...
A line delivered by Frog, a homeless man, encapsulates the dilemma of Heidi Shreck’s play, Grand Concourse. Speaking in a soup kitchen filled with raw vegetables for chopping, he tells the security...
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Rent remembered: The young stars who created the roles, and Allen Ginsberg’s...
In the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings” at a bar mitzvah at Leonard’s of Great Neck for the thousandth time; Daphne...
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Review: Rent, Fox’s TV version, turns Larson’s grit into Disney squeaky clean
La Vie Boheme is not mort. On the contrary, it is shiny and perky as all get out. That could be a problem for those who consider Rent, the late Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking 1996 rock musical, a...
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Review: The Mystery of Love & Sex at Iron Crow
Assuming love and sex are an intertwined riddle to be solved and you want an answer to the mystery —you’re not going to get it here. If you want to walk away deep in thought, contemplating the...
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Three Sistahs review at MetroStage
Sunday night’s opening at MetroStage was a fanfare affair. Not only did the press come out in full force (not always easy to get in the crowded local theater market,) being in the audience felt like a...
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Playing Putin. Actor Christopher Geary’s insight into the most dangerous man...
Want to know what the most powerful man in the world is really like? Why not ask the man who plays him on stage? We may judge and condemn others with abandon, but there is one character with whom we...
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Review: Fun Home, well worth the trip to Baltimore Center Stage
A nonlinear remembrance of family and self, Fun Home was lauded as a groundbreaking piece when it opened on Broadway in 2015, winning the Tony for Best Musical that year. Based on Alison Bechtel’s...
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American Ballet Theatre’s Harlequinade; a comedic ballet in grand style
American Ballet Theatre’s production of Harlequinade, at the Kennedy Center through Sunday, transforms old-fashioned commedia dell’arte stock characters and situations into something elegant and...
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Lin-Manual Miranda in Puerto Rico. The Hamilton cast pulls off a surprise
María Celeste Arrarás interviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda in El Dorado, Puerto Rico for “Al Rojo Vivo” the day after the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, in which Miranda reprised his lead role...
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