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Review: The Head That Wears The Crown workshop shows promise for teen drama
Ally Theatre Company’s production of The Head That Wears The Crown takes on intense subject matter, folding together high school relationships, sexual assault, eating disorders, and self-harm in an...
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Ford’s Theatre announces its 4 show 2019-2020 season
Ford’s Theatre will present two of the best-known theater stories in the English-speaking canon and two plays about outsiders in America in its 2019-2020 season, the company announced yesterday. The...
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Finding Neverland review. J.M. Barrie discovers his Peter Pan in this...
Seems poetic that The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is well over 100 now and still as impish as ever in Finding Neverland. Peter Pan, the eternal boy, sprung from the mind of Scottish novelist and...
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Amazon issue resolved, Synetic is safe in its Crystal City theatre through 2022
Synetic Theater, Washington’s acclaimed movement-based company, will remain in its Arlington, VA facility at least through late 2022, its landlord announced. Speculation about the fate of the troupe, a...
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The Washington Ballet’s new Sleeping Beauty is both grand and intimate, a...
The Washington Ballet’s new production of The Sleeping Beauty, running through Sunday at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, is a breakthrough for D.C.’s hometown ballet company. It is also a...
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We Three Queens of Richard the Third: Robynn Rodriguez, Lizan Mitchell and...
I asked three actors, all playing female royalty in Richard the Third at Shakespeare Theatre Company, to talk about what might convince wavering potential audiences to see this production. (l-r)...
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Quotidian announces 2 plays for 2019.
For its 2019 season, Quotidian will offer audiences the opportunity to see two plays which they may have missed during their runs earlier in the area. Michael Hollinger The season will open with...
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Review: Next Stop: North Korea. John Feffer’s latest looks inside the world’s...
Few foreign lands loom larger in the American imagination than North Korea, despite and because the average outsider knows almost nothing about the country. We’re in the dark by design: the U.S....
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Review: Oil, a sprawling and ambitious drama, makes its American debut at Olney
British playwright Ella Hickson gets an American premiere of her sprawlingly ambitious and provocative play at Olney Theatre Center. Oil is a play written up as a “nexus of oil, economics, and power.”...
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Joy Zinoman’s Studio Acting Conservatory finds a home, and Broadway producer...
Joy Zinoman’s Studio Acting Conservatory, which must vacate Studio Theatre this summer, will be safe to continue on, Zinoman announced on Kojo Nnamdi’s show today. The City of Washington has helped...
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Review: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Rodney King witnessed
How can one play make you low in spirit but high on life? In less than two hours, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 takes you on a whip-smart ride between sadness that race and class issues remain unchanged...
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Review: Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau at Theater Alliance
At the top of Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root, teens burst onto the stage in a blast of energy and music, reciting lines filled with wild rhythms and formations coming every which way, bodies...
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Olney Theatre Center announces its 2019-2020 season
The 2019-2020 season will be a busy one at Olney Theatre Center with 16 plays, concerts, and presentations as part of the company’s 82nd season. Musicals will frame the opening of the season and of...
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Review: Vanity Fair. Thackeray’s novel gets a giddy, superficial stage...
“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place,” writes the Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, “full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.” Cast members of of Vanity...
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Review: Cirkus Cirkör’s Limits. Swedish acrobatic troupe knows no limits.
We here in Washington, DC are no strangers to a “political circuses,” but it was hard to know what to expect from Swedish acrobatic troupe Cirkus Cirkör, whose past performances have been described as...
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Crying Hands. Treatment of the deaf and disabled under Hitler and Mussolini
“The growth of Nazism during the past few years frightens me. Today’s populist politicians use rhetoric that is identical to Mussolini’s and Hitler’s propaganda. New generations need to be told what...
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Arena Stage announces its 10 play season for 2019-2020
In the 2019-2020 theater season, Arena Stage may well be the place to go to meet interesting people: the acid-tongued Texas Governor Ann Richards; Fidel Castro; Ken Ludwig’s mom and dad, some of August...
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Review: Indecent. Paula Vogel’s play is incandescent
“This play changed my life,” proclaims shtetl tailor-turned-stage-manager Lemml (Ben Cherry) in Paula Vogel’s incandescent Indecent, and as you look up in wonder at the candle and stage-lit faces in...
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Review: Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity asks...
You have one shoe box and twenty minutes until your house burns to the ground. What do you save? In Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, Signature Theatre asks not only what...
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Be More Chill on Broadway review.
Somebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Roland as a...
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