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Review: Timon of Athens. Simon Godwin’s vivification rescues one of...
Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin’s choice of directorial debut wasn’t a stretch. Godwin’s newly minted tenure at STC begins with a vivid and zesty restaging of his recently...
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West Side Story on Broadway: Ivo van Hove’s thrilling, homoerotic, incoherent...
What’s most remarkable about Ivo van Hove’s shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director’s ruinous choices – chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video projections – he...
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Opera review: Beethovan’s Leonore from Opera Lafayette
Opera Lafayette has taken on a prodigiously ambitious task in tackling the “reawakening” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s single operatic masterpiece (Fidelio) by giving us the composer’s earlier and...
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Shakespeare Theatre mock trial gives a speedy – and witty – hearing in The...
Peter Pan, having swept the Darling children up into the sky with fairy dust, brought them to Neverland, a venue full of pirates and mermaids. There, along with the lost boys, they did battle with the...
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown Review: Titanic Survivor as Singing Elizabeth Warren
Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on screen — has been...
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Review: Actors’ take-over of ASC’s Much Ado About Nothing finds big laughs in...
At Shakespeare Theatre’s 2020 mock court Thursday night, the veteran Shakespearian actor Ed Gero described the special challenges facing a theater artist who takes on one of the Bard’s works. Almost...
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Review: Henry IV, Part 2, as ASC’s Renaisance actors will it
Imagine there’s no director — it’s easy if you try — and no designers too. Imagine further that the actors, amidst their other theatrical responsibilities, must put this play together in ten days or...
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Opera review: Samson and Delilah. Modern technicals make this rarely seen...
Opening night came on a Sunday afternoon for Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns. It’s an opera not seen in Washington for ages, and, headlined by the ravishing J’Nai Bridges, the event was...
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Review: This Bitter Earth, an inspired production of a boundaries crossing...
The Theater Alliance production of This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers is a lusty, delirious, time-suspending and pulse-pounding journey. It is also – as intimated by the title – both a vigil...
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Cambodian Rock Band Review: Genocide and Rock and Roll
How do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock concert may...
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Opera review: Don Giovanni meets the #MeToo movement
It was inevitable. Don Giovanni would have to face the match of his life against the #MeToo movement. The problem is this production, not two years after the resplendent WNO production directed by John...
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For Museum 2040, 4615 Theatre creates a museum of the future, then moves in.
Starting this week, Washington, DC is getting a new museum, and a different kind of immersive theatrical experience. 4615 Theatre’s upcoming production, Museum 2040, written by Renee Calarco and...
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Review: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes at Signature Theatre
Empty nest syndrome is not an issue for Marian (an expertly controlled and controlling Susan Rome), a contentedly retired wife and mother living in Florida with her second husband Richard (John Leslie...
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From The Women Composers Festival. Timothy Nelson introduces the women and...
This first weekend in March brings together works from some extraordinary women working in exciting new directions today in the realm of ‘opera and beyond.’ In Series hosts a Women Composers Festival...
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A King and No King. ASC actors take on this outlandish 17th century comedy
Has this ever happened to you? You’re Panthea, Princess of Iberia (Zoe Speas), and you haven’t seen your brother, King Arbaces (Benjamin Reed) since you were nine years old. You live under the watchful...
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Review: Avant Bard opens its rep season with Tennessee Williams double bill:...
With all the trappings of a Southern gothic – eccentric characters, grotesque situations, and (off-stage) violence – Suddenly Last Summer blazes the stage with vivid imagery and poetic cruelty. The...
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Adult Fan Fiction World Championships from Flying V. Here’s what you missed.
For a brilliantly good time, call Flying V, who notched up the fun last Friday with The Adult Fan Fiction World Championships. So why are you reading about it here? Because this is a theatre site, and...
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Review: Swing musical Bandstand showcases its young cast at the National this...
Bandstand, the Tony Award-winning swing style musical is making a brief stop at The National Theatre. A story of five World War II veterans trying to rebuild their lives through music, for some in...
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Bob Dylan on Broadway: Girl from the North Country Review
The odd pairing of old Bob Dylan songs with Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s new script about desperate lives during the Great Depression worked well enough when I saw it Off-Broadway in 2018, and I...
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Encore Theater, DC’s newest professional theatre company, announces auditions...
The upcoming 2020/2021 season will introduce Encore Theater Company, based in the Takoma Park community. Encore’s inaugural season, their press release announced, will feature “two intimate, celebrated...
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