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Review: Miss You Like Hell at Olney Theatre Center.
Olney Theatre Center’s production of Miss You Like Hell explores issues of immigration policies, parental abandonment and the power of Latinx women. Lisa Portes makes her Olney Theatre directing debut...
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2020 Helen Hayes Award nominees announced. Most recognized: Olney Theatre...
Olney Theatre Center leads the pack of company nominations with 27 nods for this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington announced last night at its annual kickoff to the Helen Hayes Awards. 1st...
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Review: Henry the Fourth, Part 1 – A Monarchy… if you can keep it.
(First off: my sincere apologies to the company for my constant coughing through the performance.) Henry Bolingbroke, having snatched the English crown with boist’rous hands, must now struggle to keep...
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Review: Comedy in Venice, the shakeup over what’s funny in 18th century Venice
Venetian writers Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi have a battle royale throwdown in this giddy world premiere, Comedy of Venice. Esteemed writer Gozzi (Turandot) rules the roost in Venice as the upper...
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Dance Review: Alvin Ailey’s old and new revelations
Technically, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s evening at the Kennedy Center Opera House Tuesday was a performance. But following a pre-concert gala, with an audience in sparkling gowns and tuxes...
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Review: World Stages: Huff. A dazzling young performer delivers hard truths
A stranger comes to town. He changes things up. He sheds a light on deep darkness. There are things the people don’t want to see but can’t look away. There is something of the shaman about him. It...
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Review: Gun & Powder, a groundbreaking new musical debuts at Signature Theatre
If you love groundbreaking musical theater, I suggest you navigate away from this page for just a few seconds to snap up tickets to Signature Theatre’s Gun & Powder while you still can. (But please...
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Review: Rocky Horror Show, Iron Crow’s annual raunchy, ridiculous treat
For those of you who have been living under a rock or putting up moose jerky with the Doomsday Preppers these last few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that ages-old, ever-young cult musical...
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Review: GALA’s Exquisita Agonía (Exquisite Agony), visually and emotionally...
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz has come to Washington’s GALA Hispanic Theatre to direct his most recent play, and has unleashed from his prodigiously creative mind something like a master...
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Review: The Toxic Avenger: The Musical, in-toxic-ating fun
Save the Earth. Kick a little ass. Rip out a spleen (or a spine). And do it all with a power-pop ballad in your heart. That is The Toxic Avenger: The Musical, and, in Rorschach’s hands, it is...
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Review: Synetic’s Phantom of the Opera, a sexy female-driven ballet of obsession
The Phantom of the Opera meets The Red Shoes in Synetic Theater’s sexy and Goth take on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel about ghosts, haute society, obsession and the symbiotic relationship between protégé...
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Review: Zomo the Rabbit at Imagination Stage
As my toddler stuffed fistfuls of frosting in her mouth, I couldn’t help think of Zomo the Rabbit, the deliciously fun Theater for Young Audiences play that we saw earlier. Not just because she was...
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Toxic Avenger: The Musical is indestructible. Here’s why.
Watching Rorschach Theatre’s production of Toxic Avenger: The Musical, I wondered what it is about this show that makes it seem as indestructible as its mutant monster hero? Toxic Avenger: The Musical,...
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Justin Weaks is working two very different characters at the same time. How...
Justin Weaks is well-known to DC audiences these days. He’s worked over 20 productions since 2015, won a Helen Hayes James MacArthur Award in 2017 (Word Becomes Flesh), and, after finishing up...
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Review: The 39 Steps from Constellation Theatre
As Constellation Theatre Company wraps up its performance of The 39 Steps each night, one thing’s for certain: the lighting designer deserves his own curtain call. Managing Director A.J. Guban handled...
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DC area theatres share their love for Victor Shargai on Valentine’s Day.
From dimming a marquee, to moments of silence, to toasts and notes and thanks, this Valentine’s Day, the DC area theater community will express its love for Victor Shargai, philanthropist, long-time...
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Review: The King’s Speech makes a brief, but memorable, stop at The National
The King’s Speech, the true royal story told in an Academy Award-winning 2010 film, brings its American debut as a play to the National Theatre. Early in, King George V (who in 1932 became the first...
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Review: World Stages: Heroine. A disappointing production of a powerful...
I mostly love the works brought to DC by The Kennedy Center’s World Stages. I love the sub-genre of one-person shows. I also take a serious interest and have been involved in working with the area’s...
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Free e-card Valentines for theatre lovers
We hope you enjoy these Valentines and will care to share them with your loved ones. It’s easy to do. To start, just click the radial button to the left of any Valentine and scroll down to the ‘Next’...
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Review: World Stages: The Clemency of Titus
In The Clemency of Titus, currently being presented at the Kennedy Center under its World Stages program, we have the most unbelievable plot imaginable given one of the most delightful productions...
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