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Director Vivienne Benesch on Folger’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, a brisk waltz...
“What’s wonderful about this play is: it really should appeal to any lover out there.” Vivienne Benesch, director of Love’s Labor’s Lost at Folger Theatre Vivienne Benesch was speaking with me as her...
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Review: Queens Girl in the World at Everyman Theatre
2933 Erickson Street may prove to be as potent and prescient as August Wilson’s 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the setting for many of his epic plays and the place where Aunt Ester...
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Review: Queens Girls in Africa at Everyman Theatre
How many me’s can you fit in one teenage body? Jacqueline Marie Butler (Erika Rose) ponders this question and endeavors to find her place in the world in Queens Girl in Africa, D.C. playwright Caleen...
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Review: How to Catch Creation at Baltimore Center Stage
An imaginative drama by Kansas City playwright Christina Anderson, Catch a Creation is an edgy drama, which rotates in time between the mid-1960’s, the late 1980’s and 2014. Anderson creates of story...
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In the Movies: Aladdin, Lion King, Cats plus two nods to the Bard
Anyone watching television this week has probably viewed the onslaught of commercials for the Memorial Day weekend opening of Aladdin. It is the first of three major releases based on Broadway musicals...
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Review: Jubilee, Tazewell Thompson’s glorious tribute to The Fisk Jubilee...
Steeped in history and echoing with divine harmony, Jubilee is an event you won’t want to miss. The cast of Jubilee at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. (Photo: Margot Schulman) A...
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The National Theatre announces its 12-show Broadway season
The new season scheduled for the Washington’s National Theatre seems more promising, at this point, than the Washington Nationals season. The National Theatre will present seven musicals and five...
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Review: Revisiting The Ferryman on Broadway now with its American cast
The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from the New York...
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Washington National Opera’s glittery Gala 2019. Opera stars share stage with...
What makes someone a devoted opera fan? Is it the “gilterati?” If so, there was much in abundance Saturday night when the Washington National Opera hosted its Gala in the Opera House. From the fashion...
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Allyson Currin’s Sooner/Later. A funny, brutally honest look at love, family,...
Playwright Allyson Currin’s poignant new work Sooner/Later captures the messy reality of relationships and family in a funny and brutally honest way. From the crushing awkwardness of a first date to...
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All Is True movie review: Defending Kenneth Branagh’s right to invent...
We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden–Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat’s wife who wants to...
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Puppet Lab, for the curious and experienced, at Rhizome DC June 1.
Rachel Gates became spellbound by puppets at an early age, and while many children share her fascination, for Gates, it didn’t end in childhood. After 30 years as a puppeteer, Gates is still creating...
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Everyman opens its new Upstairs Theatre as part of 8-play 2019-2020 season
This coming season, Everyman Theatre will inaugurate The Upstairs Theatre, its new 210-seat performance space, with a three-play new play festival, against a backdrop of five classic plays on...
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Review: Antigonick and The Fragments of Sappho from Taffety Punk
“how to translate [Antigone]?”, Anne Carson self-reflexes in her translator’s note to the Sophokles classic. “I take inspiration from John Cage who, when asked / how he composed 4’33”, answered / ‘I...
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Review: Ghost Light from Parlor Room Theater
When a stage manager places a single incandescent light bulb on a stand, front and center on a stage, it has a practical reason. The “ghost light” provides safety in the dark for living beings, and,...
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Review: Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem, a courageous act of revolution in...
Dane Figueroa Edidi is many things. She is a playwright, poet, choreographer, performance artist, priestess, and advocate. She is also a Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous transgender woman. To understand...
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Best Medicine Rep’s got 4 comedies for Season 3
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV’s only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production, and two...
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Review: Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die from Flying V
When asked about how she comes up with ideas for her plays (which, let me tell you from personal experience, is every writer’s favorite interview question), playwright, director, and filmmaker Young...
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Tony-Winner Susan Hilferty on designing The Oresteia at Shakespeare Theatre
Currently in its final weeks at Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Oresteia is Michael Kahn’s swan song after over thirty years as the Artistic Director before Simon Godwin takes over next season. The...
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Review: Singin’ in the Rain makes a splash at NextStop
Singin’ in the Rain seems like the type of beloved movie that shouldn’t be made into a stage version, with its perfect 1952 film, directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and named by the AFI as the...
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