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Happenstance’s Gorey-ish Cabaret Macabre returns to Baltimore (review)
Still hanging on to those last few pieces of Halloween candy? Hesitant to fold your skeleton t-shirt into the Out Of Season box of clothes? Luckily for those who revel in the season of shivers,...
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Where Words Once Were at The Kennedy Center (review)
Language is a playground. Structures and agreed-upon rules are there to be bent and broken, juxtaposed and toyed with. The Kennedy Center’s latest commission, Where Words Once Were, posits a world...
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Stephen Spotswood’s Girl in the Red Corner (review)
The Welders’ latest show, Girl in the Red Corner by Stephen Spotswood, falls short of some expectations, but makes up for it in its many human moments delivered by its talented cast. Audrey Bertaux...
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Broadway video urges everyone to vote
Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, compiled more than 200 messages from Broadway theatre makers to help get out the vote today. Watch and share. The post Broadway video urges everyone to...
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American Hero at Rep Stage (review)
Fast food, even with artisan bread, is a dead-end job for most people. Low hourly pay, part-time hours to exempt the “sandwich artists” from getting any benefits and brutal expectations—ever try to...
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Time for a laugh. Rex Daugherty directs quirky Dublin comedy Little Thing,...
Little Thing, Big Thing, a dark comic crime thriller by Dublin playwright Donal O’Kelly follows a thief and a nun who are thrown into impossible circumstances with immense odds against them. “The plot...
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Milk Like Sugar from Mosaic Theater Company (review)
At the top of Milk Like Sugar, three young teens enter, a blast of energy and music, wild rhythms jerking through their bodies in fits, almost uncontrollably, laughing, jiving each other, finishing...
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Women of a Certain Age review: An Election Day Without Trump
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago – with the Gabriel...
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High flying Mary Poppins at Olney Theatre Center
Sometimes nostalgia can be disappointing, but even so, it’s awfully nice to go home again. So it is with Olney Theatre Center’s Mary Poppins. The movie you remember has been reshaped into a Broadway...
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Keegan’s Six Degrees Separates the Catcher from the Lie (review)
Six Degrees of Separation shares much in common with Catcher in the Rye, the novel at the play’s moral center. Both are full of terribly unlikable characters who can turn our loathing into...
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Tame. Powerful Shrew re-do from Avant Bard (review)
Dark. Squirmy. Brutal. Galling. Backwards. Chilling. A slew of punchy, powerful words ran through my mind, much like the pithy (and punctuated) Tame. on Monday night, as I watched a man dominate a...
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Fugard’s “Master Harold”….and the boys Review: The effects of trickle-down...
Had I seen Signature Theatre’s fine revival of Athol Fugard’s most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating its...
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Staunton’s starring role in Gypsy airing on PBS Friday, Nov 11
What do Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, and Patti LuPone have in common? They have all played the iconic role of Mama Rose in Gypsy, one of the greatest works in musical...
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Andy Brownstein returns to the stage in Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound
Helen Hayes Award-winning actor Andy Brownstein has been absent from the DC stages since his 2012 performance as Michael in the pitch-black comedy God of Carnage at Signature Theatre. However, this...
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“Laugh so you don’t cry.” Nu Sass opens 43 1/2 to everyone for free this weekend
Why Nu Sass Productions is giving away their closing weekend tickets to 43 1/2: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies. “DC is an amazing city. It is full of some of the hardest working...
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Daughter of the Regiment at Washington National Opera (review)
Whenever I attend an opera, I always try to ask myself, “if this were the first opera I were seeing, would I enjoy this performance?” After a quarter-century of seeing them, sometimes that first time...
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Carousel at Arena Stage (review)
When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high./ And don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky. And the sweet, silver song of a lark. Walk on through the...
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Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 review: Broadway welcomes Josh...
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy’s War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a circus tent...
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Chambers of the Heart, a Word Dance collaboration on love (review)
After this past election week of turmoil, anger, backlash, and fear, Word Dance Theatre’s Chambers of the Heart offered a much needed escape into an immersive reality full of breath and love. The show...
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Thief and nun on the run in Little Thing, Big Thing (review)
You can almost feel the Fringe/touring roots of Little Thing, Big Thing from the mixture of story-telling with theatre, the acting challenges given the small cast, the clever blending of genres, and...
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