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Review: Einstein’s Wife: Serbian scientist Mileva Maric gets her due
ExPats Theatre’s production of Einstein’s Wife, (it bears the subtitle, An Imagined Encounter) takes place in an algorithmically graphed and projected after-life (Projections by Dylan Uremovich), where...
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Review: Monumental’s Head Over Heels. Fresh and fun.
A 16th century queer romance that’s a jukebox musical set to the hits of The Go-Gos? It’s hard not to think “train wreck potential” when you hear the synopsis of Head Over Heels, the musical Monumental...
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How Washington area theatres are coping with the coronavirus and how you can...
As the novel coronavirus (“novel” here means no one has prior immunity) has incurred its way into DC, Maryland and Virginia, area producers of live theatre are taking measures to protect the safety,...
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Review: Rasheeda Speaking from Ally Theatre Company
Can incremental racism make you sick and even a little crazy? Rasheeda Speaking is a fascinating exploration into the premise that no matter how well-intentioned we try to be, the toxic elements of...
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Contemporary American Theater Festival 2020, July 10 – August 2, features 5...
The Contemporary American Theater Festival will stake its claim as one of the country’s most important new play festivals in 2020, with five world premieres (including one rolling world premiere) among...
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Review: Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains at Everyman Theatre
Ain’t no mountain high enough to throw shade on Jacqueline “Jackie” Marie Butler (the incandescent, triple threat Felicia Curry), the heroine of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ world premiere play Queens...
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Review: Museum 2040, an ambitious but flawed immersive experience
I was intrigued by Museum 2040, an alternate future immersive production that combines a museum exhibit and a theatricalized dedication ceremony, from the moment I interviewed its playwright Renee...
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Review: Pass Over at Studio Theatre, brilliant, spell-binding, heartbreaking...
“Kill me now,” says Moses. “What are your Promised Land Top Ten?” counters his side- kick Kitch. Thus begins two memorable, masterful, spell-binding and heartbreaking performances by Christopher Lovell...
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Review: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a fun riff at...
The hefty tome of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, a nondescript table, two chairs and a turquoise feather boa is apparently all one needs to stage all of the Bard’s output: if you skip a few things....
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Theater J reveals the 7 plays for its 2020-2021 season
True events, leavened with fable and fantasy (and a little bit of the Kinsey Sicks) will propel Theater J’s 2020-2021, the company has revealed. In five months, the outline of our national plebiscite...
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Review: The Amateurs, a survival comedy of the 14th century plague
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread COVID-19 across the globe, large scale gatherings across the world face postponement or outright cancellation. But this is hardly the first time, The...
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DC area theatres announce cancellations due to COVID-19 concerns
March 13 – We Happy Few has canceled all performances of The Count of Monte Cristo. Refunds available, or exchange tickets for WHF’s May show: Cynarno. For assistance, contact...
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Rasheeda Speaking, first DC area production closing early due to coronavirus...
This morning, Ally Theatre Company’s production of Rasheeda Speaking became the first production cancelled in our area due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Rasheeda Speaking has been performing...
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Defining and defending the gray area: the invisibility of small professional...
I’ve spent nearly three decades working in nominally professional theatre. That is to say non-Equity but (usually) paid, albeit below a living wage, but with enough EMC points to join. Two theatre...
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L M Feldman’s Thrive wins ASC’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries competition;...
If the present ceaselessly calls out to the past in life — and it does — it also does so in art. So, for example, we have many iterations of Jane Austen’s novels cast in the present day, including the...
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Review: Celia and Fidel at Arena Stage. Castro and the seduction of power
There are moments in this mesmerizing production of Celia and Fidel during which the entire audience holds its collective breath. We watch as a battle is being fought and a choice is being made. What...
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Catch them while you still can. These shows are closing this weekend.
The short answer to the question: how many shows are canceled due to coronavirus concerns is “Most of Them.” You’re stocked up, right – toilet paper, soaps and munchies, GrubHub on speed dial. But...
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Review: Spooky Action cast revels in the wit and profundity of Will Eno’s The...
There is out there, and then there is Will Eno. An interviewer once asked him one of those personality-in-a-nutshell questions. If you could pick any superpower for yourself, he asked the playwright,...
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American Shakespeare Center, now shut down until summer, continues to support...
The innovative American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va has shut down its Actor’s Renaissance Season, canceled its Spring Season, and closed its doors at least until June in response to the...
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Stay at home and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Solas Nua’s Irish arts...
Time was, on St. Patrick’s Day, Solas Nua company members braved the March chill to hand out free books by Irish authors. Now in its 15th year, and in the season of COVID-19, the company has moved its...
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