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Susan Galbraith’s Top 10, a celebration of Women’s Voices Theater Festival
I continue to celebrate the voices and the productions that were heard in Washington this Fall as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Frankly, I’m also still mulling over the questions and the...
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Christopher Henley’s Arbitrary Topless List of Wonderfully Indelible...
Shortly after my twins (now three and a half) were born, I approached DCTS about writing for the site. Since I had been so closely associated with WSC Avant Bard and a few other local companies, I...
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GALA celebrates Three Kings Day/ Fiesta de los Tres Reyes Magos
On Sunday, January 3rd, this was where it was at– with the young people, inside the Tivoli Theatre, kids and their parents wearing crowns of shiny red, green and silver, and packed the house. (Even the...
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Wrestling Jerusalem, one man, many views of Israel at Mosaic Theater (review)
“I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman’s words in “Song of Myself” aptly describe Aaron Davidman’s chameleonic turn in Wrestling Jerusalem, a whirlwind solo tour through the protracted...
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Better Gods, new opera reveals Hawaii’s last queen, from WNO
Washington National Opera’s Better Gods brings a mostly unknown chapter in Hawaiian history onto the stage at the Kennedy Center, telling the story of Queen Lili’uokalani, the island nation’s last...
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See it first – previews and openings this week
Specially Priced Previews EQUUS January 13- February 14 4 previews for this Peter Shaffer classic, featuring Michael Kramer, Ross Destiche and Michael Tolaydo. PWYC at the door: Wed and Thursday, Jan...
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Aaron Davidman tells a deeply personal story in Wrestling Jerusalem
Aaron Davidman, whose Wrestling Jerusalem is onstage now at Mosaic Theater, is no stranger to the issues affecting Israel, having been a frequent visitor over the years, and it was always his desire to...
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The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound from Shakespeare Theatre (review)
The critic Sneer (Robert Dorfman) is an argumentative, dyspeptic man with a heart of rubble, who is never more happy than when he is in distress and telling you about it. His colleague Dangle (John...
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Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose at Signature (review)
The glorious and painful truth about heroes is that they never die. Glorious because their moments of triumph and wonder can live on moment after moment, memory after memory, into the infinite vaults...
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Chocolate Covered Ants’ director Courtney Baker-Oliver
Steven A. Butler’s Chocolate Covered Ants offers audiences unique insight into the minds of African American men in the age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and the subsequent news stories of police brutality....
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Women from Mars’ silent Clown-Noir Cabaret (review)
The problem with Women From Mars’ Silent Reflections: A Clown-Noir Cabaret is that its two night run deprived many Washingtonians the joy of unleashing the veiled, inner feminist who longs to (rage,...
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Noises Off review: Starry Broadway slapstick in an old backstage farce
Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that’s a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s slapstick backstage...
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Playwright Sharyn Rothstein wins $10,000 Primus Prize
The Francesca Primus Prize, awarded annually to an emerging woman playwright and administered by The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA), has been awarded to playwright Sharyn Rothstein for her...
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder at the Kennedy Center (review)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder begins with a disclaimer, in the form of a song called “A Warning to the Audience.” The ensemble, posed in an Edward Gorey-esque tableau, let’s us know what we...
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Chocolate Covered Ants from Restoration Stage (review)
The strange title refers to the profound sense of feeling insignificant, inconsequential, disrespected and invisible sentiments felt by black men in America. The stories and messages are clear and...
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Ionesco’s Exit the King from 4615 Theatre Company (review)
“Why was I born, if it wasn’t forever?” It’s a lament many of us find ourselves asking on dark nights of the soul when we are forced to dwell on our mortality. Few of us pose the question as bluntly or...
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Will Eno’s Middletown at NextStop Theatre (review)
Will Eno’s Middletown, now at Herndon’s NextStop Theatre, is what Our Town would have been if Thornton Wilder had made his characters hopeless, heartbreakingly lonely and a little psycho. Middletown,...
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UpClose with the stars of Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet The Winter’s Tale
The National Ballet of Canada returns to Washington D.C. with the U.S. premiere of The Winter’s Tale from January 19-24, 2016 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Based on William Shakespeare’s play of...
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Puppets rule Avant Bard’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (review)
Following the plinkety-plinks of a somewhat less-than-shimmering overture – after all, it is a “junk yard” gamelan – delicately carved puppets transport us through their shadow play. All in shadow, a...
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See it first – previews and openings starting Jan 19
Specially Priced Previews UNDER THE SKIN January 20 – February 21 – PWYC Tues, Jan 19 at 7:30. Cash only. Pay at the door. Everyman Theatre 315 W. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Tuesdays thru...
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