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Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the Cronut of musicals, still works its...
Recent research has shown that humans’ domestication of dogs has altered canines’ brains. I have a theory — it has not yet been borne out by science, but I am confident that it will be — that cats have...
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A look at Unexpected Turbulence: lipstick, slapstick in the...
Alexander Burnett, in DC on a break from his studies in Paris, plays flight attendant Crystelle Desjardins, determined to win”Best Flight Attendant in the Fleet” for the 16th year in a row in the U S....
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Review: Jitney at Arena Stage
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s restaging of his 2017 Broadway production of Jitney at Arena Stage—bringing to town much of the design team and several of the actors—is a terrific kickoff to a...
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Review: Miss You Like Hell musical at Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore Center Stage’s new artistic director Stephanie Ybarra gets off to a dynamic start with the winning, women-centered musical, Miss You Like Hell, which celebrates the passion and pain of Latinx...
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The 2020 Michelin Bib Award bargain friendly restaurants near your favorite...
The Michelin Guide’s official announcement for 2020 Bib Gourmand awards went live today. The Bib Gourmands are announced, yearly, before the announcement of their coveted star rating awards, and are a...
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Until Candida at WSG, this married couple had given up hope of ever...
The Washington Stage Guild, renowned for its delightful stagings of “house playwright” George Bernard Shaw, kicks off its 2019-20 season with one of his earliest comedies, Candida, directed by Laura...
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Review: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at Round House
“Jubilant!” Strange word to describe a play about skin tones, a mean girl with a foul mouth, and the lasting affects of colonialism. Yet, no other word works when it comes to School Girls; or, the...
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Theatre Week: Ticket sales have been through the roof, and there are still...
After an exciting Kickoff Party, and weeks of active buying from bargain hunters, we checked in with Amy Austin, President and CEO of theatreWashington for an update heading into the last week Theatre...
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Review: Elephant and Piggie’s “We are in a Play!” Shark-approved “gooood show”
I’ll admit, I was a bit terrified to attend Elephant and Piggie’s “We are in a Play!” Mostly because my toddler, lovingly called the Shark, had lived up to her animal Patronus and didn’t take a nap....
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Review: Trying at 1st Stage
Literate, compelling, and uplifting, Trying is a fine two-person play brought to life with simple style and a gentle grace by 1st Stage. Director Alex Levy has an impeccable cast to work with, abetted...
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Review: The Finger. U.S. debut of Kosovo play at Venus Theatre
How do we navigate our private and shared griefs? How do we buoy others up as we cope, and how do we drag them down? These are central questions in Kosovar playwright Doruntina Basha’s play The Finger,...
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Review: The Bodyguard at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Toby’s top talent and Whitney...
The legacy and superstardom of Whitney Houston endures, judging from the bobbing heads and impromptu singalongs at Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of The Bodyguard. Based on the 1992 film starring...
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Robert Hooks and the pioneering DC Black Repertory Company
— This season, audiences have the chance to see plays about the African-American experience, written both by a new generation of writers and distinguished playwrights from the 20th century, on numerous...
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Review: Funnyman Mike Birbiglia tells it like it is in The New One at...
Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has a rare sleepwalking disorder – one that almost killed him. As he tells it, one night—in the throes of a particularly vivid, bad-guy-chase-sequence dream—a...
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Broadway Review: The Height of the Storm. Tricky plotting, or just a trick?
The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins? Or...
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The Smuggler moves to Round House in November. Tickets on sale today.
Solas Nua’s twisty tale, The Smuggler, quickly sold out its run in the Allegory Bar at Eaton DC. Rex Daugherty is still mixing drinks there as Tim Finnegan, the bartender with a shady past through...
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Review: Taffety Punk Riot Grrrls perform Othello
How do you like your Shakespeare? Intimate. Intelligent. Intrepid. And, I’d also add fully integrated through emotional truth and delivery of the musical richness of Shakespeare’s language. Taffety...
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Review: The Tempest revival from Synetic Theater “fresh and profound”
Synetic Theater opens its season with a remount of its 2013 hit The Tempest, complete with its stunning watery world creation, amphibian-like cast, pounding AMC decibel electronic score, and a splash...
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Review: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida at Washington Stage Guild
Ruminations about love and passion abound in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida. Written and first performed in a past century (1898), questions of what makes a successful marriage feel right at home today...
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Review: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show at Imagination Stage
You may not recognize the name Eric Carle, but you’ll probably recognize his distinctive collage art. He hand paints sheet after sheet of tissue paper with bold acrylics. He cuts them in simple shapes...
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