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Review: The Willard Suitcases. Pack your bag to catch this ingeniously staged...
The end of your life starts slowly, and after some incomprehensible incident. Everything seems dreamlike. They are talking to you – the policeman, the lawyer, the judge, the doctor – and you can...
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Review: Airness. An air guitar comedy whose wildly talented cast strikes a...
“The whole impetus of air guitar is world peace,” earnestly intones a grown man who goes by the name Golden Thunder right before he goes out on stage in a dingy bar to play a pretend instrument. This...
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Evita Review at New York City Center: A Feminist Spin with Two Evas
It’s surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical canonization of the amoral historical figure Eva...
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Review: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra gets a lusty, lively staging at ASC
Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s saga of love and war, in which — spoiler alert — war wins. Our situation is this: Julius Caesar has been assassinated and, after some skirmishing, the...
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Review: The Velveteen Rabbit at Adventure Theatre MTC
The best and worst part of toddlers is their Big Feelings. Just the morning of me writing this piece, my toddler (who we call The Shark) has displayed righteous indignation at not being allowed to...
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Review: Matilda The Musical at NextStop Theatre
Despite being one of the last books Roald Dahl ever wrote, Matilda has remained one of the British author’s highest-selling works. Even so, The Guardian notes a significant jump in Matilda’s global...
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The Inheritance Broadway Review: Gay Life Then and Now
“The Inheritance,” a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making his Broadway...
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Review: HEARTSPACE the earth that is sufficient from The Welders
How are we to recover from what divides us? How do we maintain hope in the face of catastrophe from climate crisis? Such questions are not new; in fact the clamor of them pounding for our attention has...
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Review: Venus and Adonis from Opera Lafayette
Celebrating Opera Lafayette’s twenty-fifth season, Ryan Brown has brought a rare and truly exquisite small gem of an opera to Washington audiences. To do so, Brown has left his more familiar...
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Giving back to Tia Shearer Bassett
Dear Friends, We were saddened to learn this week that Tia Shearer Bassett, a valued member of the DC theater community and a bright shining light of a human, has recently been diagnosed with cancer....
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Review: Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit from Live Garra Theatre
Though written over 75 years ago, Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit endures as a staple in Existentialist thought. Set in hell, the play focuses on three damned souls set to share the same room for all...
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Review: Hard Times from Washington Stage Guild
With steam wafting from the factories painted across the backdrop of Washington Stage Guild’s production of Hard Times, it doesn’t take long before issues about industry and social progress take center...
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Review: Keep. A brilliant theatrical tour de force at Studio Theatre
Make no mistake about it, I had this guy pegged in the first two minutes: a bumbling, bald-headed bungler trying to string together a show based on his own hoarding. Worse, an amateur! My companion...
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Review: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe at Imagination Stage
To leap, bound, and twirl through Narnia is to enjoy the storied fantasy world anew, watching the Pevensie children learn the value of sacrifice, friendship, family, love, and, of course, the triumph,...
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Review: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical!). Perfection and...
If you think you hear the gloriously ingenious cackling of delighted children, it may be emanating from the Family Theater at The Kennedy Center. If it is mixed with some lower-pitched guffaws, those...
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Review: The Powers That Be – A Rock Opera at Venus Theatre
How does one process unspeakable pain in losing a loved one to violence? Sanguine expressions of “thoughts and prayers” have no place in The Powers That Be, a hard rocking contemplation on the anguish...
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Review: A Christmas Story, The Musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, a sweet...
It’s always a risky proposition to transform a beloved film into a musical, and for every Beetlejuice or Mean Girls success story, there’s a Ghost or Pretty Woman that just couldn’t muster the same...
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Dance review: Atlanta Ballet’s innovative and first-class Nutcracker
Washingtonians are unusually lucky to have two top-notch Nutcrackers to choose from every year. The Washington Ballet’s charming D.C.-themed production is an area favorite and it is always interesting...
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Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Round House Theatre
The big takeaway from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the glimpsed exposure to what goes through the mind of a special person—in this case someone with an autism spectrum condition...
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Our favorite Black Friday ticket deals
Goldstar Black Friday deals: Tickets for under $20? Yes! Goldstar, our ticketing partner, has 22 Black Friday deals: Theatre, dance, opera, jazz … at these prices it’s easy to try something new! Here...
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