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Next season, Synetic Theater will be speechless
Synetic Theater, Washington’s revolutionary movement-based theater company, has announced a schedule of all-movement shows for 2016/17 in which there will be no dialogue. At all. Ever.. The Synetic...
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Next season’s theatre calendar at The Kennedy Center
The 2016-2017 Kennedy Center’s theatre season promises to be a farrago of familiar classics, ambitious new works — from Broadway and everywhere else — productions staged by distinguished visiting...
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Best friends Hasani Allen and Harrison Smith in Green Day’s rocker American...
If you happen to notice a deeper than normal camaraderie between the characters of Tunny and Johnny in Keegan’s upcoming production of American Idiot, it’s no coincidence. While the characters are best...
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The Odyssey: From Vietnam to America at The Kennedy Center (review)
Kennedy Center’s World Stages is what I might call a rolling festival of international works that defy easy categorizing of genres, and no show more so than The Odyssey: from Vietnam to America....
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Holly Twyford lands iconic role in Ford’s Theatre season lineup
Holly Twyford will reach another milestone in her notable career as a Washington actor when she tackles the role of Martha in Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as part of...
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El mundo es un pañuelo / The World is a Handkerchief (review)
What happens when you accept all the different colors in the world as equal and beautiful? You get a rainbow. In this delightful, droll allegory set to music, El Mundo es un pañuelo/The World is a...
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Pulitzer winner The Flick at Signature Theatre (review)
Laura C. Harris has now starred in my two favorite Signature Theatre productions. Her star turn in the immersive physical (and criminally underseen) Tender Napalm put her on my fanboy map, and now her...
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Nottage’s Sweat among six finalists for $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA Award
Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s meditation on the deteriorating American working class wrapped in a who-done-it, heads up a list of six finalists for the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award,...
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“It Can’t Happen Here” NYC reading featuring…Donald Trump?
In It Can’t Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares “the people are sick to death of political chatter…It’s time to ACT” — and promises to “build a wall of...
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Arena Stage to launch 10 play season in July
Arena Stage’s ten-production 2016-2017 season will feature theatrical presentations of true events (including a new play by local playwright Jacqueline Lawton), as well as a two-play Lillian Hellman...
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Marjorie Prime at Olney Theatre Center (review)
You can’t trust anything these days, especially memories. Being human, we treat them like modeling clay—stretching, reshaping, pounding and molding our memories until they are the lumpen leftovers of...
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The Pillowman at Forum Theatre (review)
Two detainees, two cops, two (or is it three?) gruesome child-murders — that’s the triad of pitch-dark dualities that underpin The Pillowman, a Grimm-ly funny brothers-in-extremis fable that earned a...
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1984, presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company (review)
1984, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s newest visiting international production, combines cutting-edge technology with a very old technique for making political plays for this new adaptation of a classic...
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Metro trains aren’t running today, but the shows go on.
Metro is closed today, but, according to our survey, all shows in the Washington DC area are going on as scheduled. Forum Theatre, which is presenting The Pillowman, is offering a 50% discount for...
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Annie, a big hit on its brief stop at The National Theatre (review)
The last time I saw a full production of Annie on stage, I was only 8 and Andrea McArdle was playing the titular redhead on the Great White Way. And it was my first-ever Broadway show and the musical...
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Ironbound Review: An Immigrant’s Search for Love and Money
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok’s rich play about a poor immigrant feels always on the...
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Unexpected Stage announces its 2016 shows
Unexpected Stage Company, operating out of the Randolph Road Theatre in Wheaton, MD, will offer a two-production slate for 2016 which will literally encompass life and death. From July 14 to 31 of this...
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What’s so funny about the 2016 race for the White House?
While, for many of us this election cycle is fraught with drama, there are clutches of writers around the country cheering every twist, failure and faux pas. Yes, it is playing into the hands of...
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Round House and Olney Theatres to co-produce Kushner masterwork; Round House...
Round House Theatre will co-produce both parts of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America with Olney Theatre this fall, Round House announced yesterday. The joint production will kick off a two-year...
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Critic lands role in Diary of Anne Frank, now at Compass Rose
There’s a saying: All roads eventually lead home. Though as Moses found out, that journey can sometimes take a few decades longer than expected. It all started innocently enough. Two months ago, when I...
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