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Review: Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ sunny, stunning journey from Life...
Everybody is a wonder. Brilliant visuals, arresting acting, ingenious direction by Will Davis, a searching script by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and an overall generosity of spirit that imbues...
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Review: At Constellation, a Little Shop that’s big fun.
There’s a pall of delicious irony lingering over Constellation’s Little Shop of Horrors, the now-classic musical tale of a weirdo named Seymour from Skid Row who finds an extra-terrestrial plant that...
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Václav Havel tribute celebrating The Velvet Revolution gets ready to open at...
Václav Havel was a renowned politician who went from political prisoner to serving as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the country’s dissolution three years later, who then became...
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The Washington Ballet’s NEXTsteps: breathtaking, athletic, beguiling
Honest artistry is flourishing at the Washington Ballet these days and it was on delightful display Thursday night when the company opened NEXTsteps, a program of three world premieres that runs...
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Review: She Kills Monsters, Rorschach’s revival of its 2014 hit show
When you leave this world, what are you going to leave behind for your loved ones? Memories? An inheritance? How about an entire fantasy world in which a version of you lives on and offers insight into...
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Brian Feldman wants you to know the MLB rules for tonight’s World Series game...
There are plenty of shows performing tonight in DC, and most patrons will undoubtedly be on their phones during intermission (PLEASE wait till then!) to check on one history-making event. That is, of...
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Review: Otello from Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera opened its 2019-20 season at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello signaling that the company, under the leadership of Artistic...
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Review: Right to Be Forgotten debuts at Arena Stage
What takes precedent: individual privacy, or public information? Right to Be Forgotten, making its world premiere at Arena Stage, is remarkably nuanced in its exploration of the big debates in Internet...
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In eight months, Emily Tyra went from fighting brain cancer to dancing Denis...
It was March in Los Angeles when actress and dancer Emily Tyra was out jogging and she was unnerved by a feeling she had never felt before. She immediately went home and told her husband, and minutes...
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Freestyle Love Supreme Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s improv rappers on Broadway
Freestyle Love Supreme is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to Hamilton as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16 years ago with...
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Review: Theory at Mosaic Theater, freedom of speech on a college campus rings...
If you were given free rein to say whatever you want about anything you want…how far would you go? And if you were the moderator of that kind of environment, at what point would you interfere? That’s...
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Review: Conor McPherson’s confessional Port Authority from Quotidian Theatre
A doleful ballad fittingly eases you into Quotidian Theatre Company’s (QTC’s) lovingly rendered production of Conor McPherson’s Port Authority. Three generations of Irishmen then introduce themselves...
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Signature Theatre will produce Mamma Mia! at The Anthem this summer.
The Arlington-based Signature Theatre announced today that it will add a brand new production of Mamma Mia! to its season, and produce the show The Anthem, one of the major concert venues in DC,...
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“Young people are rising up to shape the world they want to live in.” Joe...
Newsies, the movie, established a cult following in 1992, with a pre-Dark Knight Christian Bale playing Jack Kelly, a 17-year-old newspaper hawker in New York City who leads the 1899 newsboys strike,...
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Review: Blue Camp. Debut play reveals hidden story of queer injustice in the...
“History does not always repeat itself,” wrote science fiction writer and editor of Astounding Science Fiction, John W. Campbell Jr. “Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’...
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Review: E2. British royals behaving badly. Bob Bartlett’s ambitious play gets...
You’d think the big perk of being king is being able to do whatever you want. That is tragically not the case with Edward II, the duty-bound and defiant monarch of E2, an ambitious and sobering play by...
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Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre renamed for Michael R. Klein
The Lansburgh Theatre is now the Michael R. Klein Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced at its Gala on November 4, 2019. The new marquee for the Michael R. Klein Theatre (Photo: DJ Corey) The...
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HEARTSPACE from The Welders. 3.2 million year old Lucy to speak about our...
Annalisa Dias, member of The Welders playwrights collective, is not one to shy away from multiple, deeply involved, projects. When we spoke on the phone, she had just returned from London, and was back...
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Only Queen Latifah’s fabulosity kept ABC’s The Little Mermaid Live! afloat
In 2013, NBC made a splash in event television by airing The Sound of Music Live!, attracting over 18 million viewers to a live telecast of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical. Ever since, other...
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Bella Bella Review: Harvey Fierstein As Rep. Bella Abzug, Gutsy and Adorable
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.” Abzug paused, apologized….and kept on...
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