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Review: It’s all very removed and reserved in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, now...
There was a huge line to see the fourth Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s 1978 play about an adulterous triangle. The enthusiasm, I had assumed, was because the cast includes the movie star Tom...
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Review: Cabaret at Olney Theatre Center
Cabaret, the ground-breaking Kander and Ebb musical about sex and show-biz played against a backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power in Berlin, gets a compelling production at Olney Theatre Center....
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Opening day of The REACH at The Kennedy Center
Under a bright, perfect-weather-for-DC day, crowds, volunteers, donors and celebs gathered to celebrate a new addition to a Washington landmark. The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ The...
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Review: Butterfly takes wing. Timothy Nelson has rescued Puccini’s most...
Every age gets to reassess the value of a work of art relative to its present times, and not just aesthetically but politically. Never more so than today. Sometimes in our society’s self-congratulating...
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D.C.’s newest Artistic Director, Karin Rosnizeck, launches ExPats Theatre...
“It’s so good and so timely, I couldn’t let go of it. I knew if I didn’t mount it right after the Fringe experience, the danger of not coming back to it would have been very real. So it was now or...
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Review: Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins at Rep Stage
Rep Stage’s gracious production of Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins makes you miss many things. Piano players in restaurants and cocktail lounges. Songs...
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Review: Doubt: A Parable. Sarah Marshall leads Studio’s powerful production...
The titular doubt in John Patrick Shanley’s classic play, now being given a rigorous yet nuanced treatment at Studio Theatre, is not about whether the intense, charismatic Father Brendan Flynn (the...
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It took Stephawn Stephens more than 15 years to get Jacquelyn Hawkins on...
“At Last.” Etta James. If reading those words starts the soulful 1960’s hit playing in your head, then you will understand the supreme confidence director Stephawn P. Stephens had in handing the song...
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Review: The Smuggler, Solas Nua’s instant hit at Allegory, has sold out....
It is possible for a good solo show to deliver some of the greatest magic in theater. In Solas Nua’s innovative production of The Smuggler, actor and artistic director Rex Daugherty captivates the...
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Review: 1 Henry IV at Folger Theatre. Gero is a marvelous Falstaff, but it’s...
Henry IV, Part 1 is the best of the Shakespearean histories, because it is a redemption story — not of Prince Hal (Avery Whitted), who rose from his Eastcheap debauchery to become England’s greatest...
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Review: Love Sick, Theater J’s seductive musical
In its best moments Love Sick—the opening show of Theater J’s 2019-20 season in its newly renovated space—is a brilliantly woven tapestry of competing forms. The music, written by Ofra Daniel and Lior...
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Review: La Vida es Sueño / Life is a Dream at GALA Hispanic Theatre
Never underestimate the power of a classic to communicate across time, cultures, and language in new and urgent messaging. We have Producing Artistic Director Hugo Medrano, the longest serving Artistic...
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“I’m Not Interested in More Allies. I Need Advocates.” A conversation with...
What is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders: Michael J. Bobbitt, former Artistic...
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Review: What the Constitution Means to Me disarms all the arguing and...
Washington, DC, is one of the few cities in the country where it’s not uncommon for large groups of people to come together to spend two hours deep in conversation about the constitution and its...
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Review: Helen on Wheels. Comedy is hard.
Best Medicine Rep stands out among our newer small theatre companies for location (a store space on the upper level of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg) and for mission: they will only present comedies....
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Review: Puliter Prize-winner Fairview at Woolly Mammoth
If someone were to ask me to describe the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, I would start with Shattering. I would add Visceral, Iconoclastic, and Stinging. The playwright...
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I Am Her, a personal story that propelled this writer to take to the stage
For three nights in Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s classroom space, first-time playwright Amanda Moskowitz will be telling her story. The play, I Am Her, and performance were not part of this writer’s life...
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Review: The Gulf, Audrey Cefaly’s Delta drama
We’ve seen “Jaws.” We all know what an innocent fishing expedition can become. The stakes are more emotional than predatory in Audrey Cefaly’s intense and steamy one-act, The Gulf, returning to the...
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Review: Surfacing from ExPats Theatre
Sometimes theatre amuses, sometimes it entertains, sometimes it moves. Oftentimes we get caught up in the protagonist’s journey, sometimes we are dazzled by technical brilliance. Then there are times...
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A tribute to Alan Friedman, 71, beloved theater volunteer
Local theater lobbies just got a bit colder with the passing of Alan Friedman, 71, on September 19. Along with his husband Lou Altarescu, Alan was a fixture in the Washington theater scene, a warm and...
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