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Congressional Chorus’s musical tour of the diversity of America’s music with...
For Road Trip, the Congressional Chorus’ 11th annual cabaret, 80 singers, a 20-member specialty dance troupe, and a rockin’ seven-piece band will travel the nation and feature songs that signify a...
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Once again, Ireland’s young men are leaving her shores. Solas Nua’s new play...
With St. Patrick’s Day only a week away, and “Danny Boy” heard in many a pub, Solas Nua, the DC based company dedicated to Irish arts, is presenting the American premiere of Fiona Doyle’s Coolatully,...
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Glass Menagerie Review with Sally Field…but no glass menagerie
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie that doesn’t include a glass menagerie! And...
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Playwright D. L. Coburn responds to MetroStage’s production of Gin Game
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright D. L. Coburn was intrigued by DC area reviews of his play, The Gin Game, at MetroStage, enough to make a special trip to see it. He wrote the play 40 years ago and...
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From the Mouths of Monsters, a TYA treat for the swift
Why the heck is From the Mouths of Monsters only running this weekend? The workshop production currently in all-too brief residence at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater is more than ready for a full...
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Come from Away Broadway review: 9/11 from 1500 miles north of ground zero
Come From Away tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes which were forced to land at the local airport because of...
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Coolatully from Solas Nua (review)
Coolatully hits every single trope of a modern Irish story with an impeccable, though taciturn exactitude. Solas Nua is “the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary...
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Arena Stage’s Intelligence takes a look at the Valerie Plame affair (review)
Intelligence takes us back to a simpler time in American politics, when outing a CIA agent to punish her husband for revealing that the administration started a war based on alternative facts was an...
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Review: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing – and does she ever!
If Dolly Gallagher Levi is still going strong, and if Mame Dennis could charm the husk right off of the corn, then it can be said Mrs. Elva Miller could stop traffic – with her voice. The matronly...
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Nu Sass takes on Karl Marx and wins. Marx in Soho (review)
“Is there anything more outrageous than an honest critic?” asks Karl Marx (Mary Myers) at one point during Nu Sass Productions’ presentation of Howard Zinn’s 1999 one-person show, Marx in Soho. Luckily...
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Playwright Bekah Brunstetter: why NBC’s This Is Us is connecting with...
While women writers struggle for parity on American stages, television series have been hiring them. Six of the eleven writers on NBC’s hit night time drama This Is Us are women. Playwright Bekah...
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Kevin McAllister: playing Coalhouse Walker, Jr in Ragtime
Once an accidental role, Kevin McAllister’s turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre will be the third go-around for the...
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Kennedy Center shines a spotlight on international directors
Over the course of the next two months, the Kennedy Center will showcase the work of five of the theater’s preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman Al Bassam,...
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Woolly amps up the politics next season
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, already notable for the socially and politically outspoken theater it brings to the Washington Stage, is kicking it up a notch with a sextet of hot-button plays for the...
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Parade at Keegan Theatre (review)
“These people make me tense,” sings Leo Frank early in the dark musical Parade. “It’s like a foreign land.” If 1913 Atlanta feels alien to Frank, a transplanted New York Jew and the well-educated,...
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Next season, Synetic gets kid-friendly in 2017. 2018 Will Be a Different Story
Synetic Theater, a DC area company known nationwide for its movement-based productions, will be taking a two-toned approach to its 2017-2018 season. The 2017 portion will be full of light-dappled,...
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Olney’s colossal, immense, really, really big 80th season’s coming up
Olney Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will include early works by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ayad Akhtar, co-productions with Round House and Everyman theaters, and a return of the Hypocrites in a production...
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The Price Review: Danny DeVito in Arthur Miller’s Family Drama
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here’s DeVito as Gregory Solomon, a Jewish...
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Round House turns 40 with a season that embraces the new
Bethesda’s Round House Theatre has staked its claim as the area’s premiere space for new stuff in the 2017-2018 season. That season — Round House’s 40th — will feature one world premiere, one American...
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Paper Dreams, dance theatre for the very young, at Imagination Stage (review)
A charming Continental vibe pervades Paper Dreams, the latest offering at Imagination Stage in its series (called “My First Imagination Stage”) that is specifically designed for very young audiences....
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