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UpClose: Steven Lutvak on Gentleman’s Guide and what’s next
It’s increasingly rare for a musical to open on Broadway that isn’t either a revival or a jukebox musical. Rarer still are new musicals with scores that aren’t rock, rap, or country-inflected, but...
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Equus from Constellation Theatre (review)
Martin Dysart (Michael Kramer) is a child psychiatrist going through the motions of what he calls “career menopause,” when his good friend Hesther Salomon, (Kathleen Akerley), a court magistrate,...
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Skeleton Crew Review: Down But Not Out in The Last of Dominique Morisseau’s...
Dominique Morisseau was moved to write Skeleton Crew, her compelling play about a group of Detroit auto workers, after the playwright met a woman who was reduced to living in her automobile –...
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Mother Courage and Her Children review: Brecht’s anti-war epic set in the Congo
Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company’s production of Brecht’s anti-war epic – not the way she’s playing the character, but the actress herself, because she agreed...
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Letting ladies lead: Stone Tape Party Remix revealed by Angela Kay Pirko
I am sure this statement – and the following article – will come as a complete shock to absolutely everyone who knows me or who has seen my work before: I am a feminist. I’ll give us all a moment to...
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The Sisters Rosensweig at Theater J (review)
In the summer of 1991, the three Rosensweig sisters, Sara (Kimberly Schraf), Gorgeous (Susan Rome) and Pfeni(Susan Lynskey), reunite in Sara’s London home to mark the occasion of the eldest sister’s...
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Keegan Theatre (review)
We tend to think of genius as fully formed. We see the end results of a truly sublime or original masterpiece – be it a play, a painting, or a theorem – and chalk it up to divine inspiration that the...
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Between Riverside and Crazy at Studio Theatre (review)
Between Riverside and Crazy presents a world of shades, uncertainties, and complicated relationships. Between the exchanges of rapid fire, often profanity laden dialogue and sometimes scathing...
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UpClose with Ed Dixon, Georgie: a rose and its thorns
“If you didn’t witness it in person, it’s difficult to grasp what it really was. That’s something I’m trying to wrestle with in this piece.” I was speaking to Ed Dixon, who wrote and is performing...
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Our Mother’s Brief Affair review: Linda Lavin in Richard Greenberg’s tale of...
Our Mother’s Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother’s deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung several...
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Happily ride out the blizzard with these theatre streams
It’s official. The snow is here, and by tonight (Friday) will be of blizzard proportions. How can we be so sure? The Kennedy Center, along with every other venue in town, has canceled shows for...
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BroadwayCon, Day 1: stars turn out to talk with thousands of fans
On Day 1 of Year 1 of BroadwayCon, being held for three days at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, we learned: “It’s like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face paint.” “Cosplay” means...
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As You Like It? Yes, very much (review)
Let Snowzilla 2016 do its worst. We’ve got sunshine right here in Charm City, where the pure magic of director Wendy C. Goldberg’s production of As You Like It stirs the summer of love inside us....
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Announcement of the Helen Hayes Awards nominees moved to February 1
With the city of Washington still cleaning up from the weekend’s historic storms and even the Federal government closed for Monday, January 25, the Washington theatre community will need to hold its...
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I and You Review: Teenagers Facing Life and Death Through Walt Whitman
I and You, Lauren Gunderson’s two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awards and much...
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Under the Skin at Everyman (review)
Organ donation may not be something you automatically associate with comedy, but playwright Michael Hollinger attempts to find the zanier side of bum kidneys and dysfunctional family dynamics in his...
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OLIVERio: Felicia Curry takes on role reversal for Dickens’ character
Despite being one of the area’s go-to talents for mature-themed productions—netting her four Helen Hayes nominations in the process—Felicia Curry has always had a soft spot in her heart for children’s...
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Agents of Azeroth from Washington Rogues (review)
The past few years have seen a boom of plays trying to tackle the digital age. It’s an interesting prospect for theatre, a medium that in so many ways is diametrically opposed to the technological...
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UpClose: Gassan Abbas on performing I Shall Not Hate
Palestinian-Israeli actor Gassan Abbas carries I Shall Note Hate, produced by Mosaic Theater Company of DC in residence at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, alone on his shoulders. The one-man play,...
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Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at Arena Stage (review)
There’s a certain irony in watching Sweat, a play about the annihilation of the American working class, in corporate-sponsored palatial theater charging $80+ a pop for full-price seats, not to mention...
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