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The Magic Play has real tricks up its sleeve, and a real point to make about...
Is it sacrilegious to suggest that Easter was a good day to see The Magic Play, since the story of Easter, if true, is the greatest magic act in human history? I here use magic in its broadest sense:...
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Indecent on Broadway Review: A Century-Old Scandalous Jewish/Lesbian Play...
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play Indecent, a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that featured a scandalizing kiss...
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Meet the parents: Robert Petkoff and Susan Moniz on playing Fun Home in the...
The first national tour of the Tony-Award winning, Broadway hit Fun Home is on stage at the National Theatre through May 13. Adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, the musical is based on an...
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Lessons in marriage in The Late Wedding at Hub Theatre (review)
The Late Wedding doesn’t have a traditional plot. Instead, the play is more like a lesson plan: Its central theme is introduced and explained methodically, and then the audience is exposed to more...
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Chesapeake Shakespeare’s next season punctuates classics with the story of...
Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre’s six-play 2017-2018 season will feature a production of Red Velvet, the story of an extraordinary production of Othello, within a schedule of three well-loved...
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Peter and the Starcatcher well worth catching at MET (review)
Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, den mothers, scoutmasters, youth leaders – okay, anyone who oversees children, please follow directions: Go to the website Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) and...
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Twyford and company delight in Or, a bawdy tale of mistaken identities and...
The true story of Aphra Behn is the epitome of “stranger than fiction.” In Round House Theatre’s rollicking production of Or, director Aaron Posner, Holly Twyford, and company gleefully romp through...
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Joel Markowitz interviewed on Fox News Channel 5 last night
Thursday, April 20: Jim Lokay of Fox 5 News interviewed Joel Markowitz on his battle to fight ALS, and the importance of continuing his legacy work at DCMetroTheaterArts.com. John Stoltenberg, a friend...
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Misty Copeland’s curated Ballet Across America at The Kennedy Center (review)
What’s more invigorating than one boundary-pushing ballet company? Three! Wednesday’s audience at the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series was treated to a varied and impressive, though...
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Fun Home justifies its Tonys at The National Theatre (review)
About halfway through Fun Home, which opened Wednesday night at the National Theatre, ten year-old Alison is in a coffee shoppe with her Dad. It’s the second time during the show that father is...
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That Face opens Third Space at Baltimore Center Stage (review)
No longer do we need to shudder to think what Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf would be like as mothers. The Tennessee Williams and Edward...
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Lydia Diamond’s back at Arena Stage with Smart People (review)
The long awaited Smart People at Arena Stage tackles issues of race and gender stereotypes from the viewpoint of four distinctly different people, each serving as a kind of archetype of history and...
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Review: Broadway’s Anastasia turns Russia’s Revolution into a Fairytale...
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding actual...
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Next season at the newly renovated Baltimore Center Stage
Having remodeled its physical plant, created a small black box playing space, and renamed itself, Baltimore Center Stage has picked a 2017-2018 season designed to shake up its audience’s mind, soul and...
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The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (review)
In the midst of a fever dream, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington flips the power dynamic of Mt. Vernon and leaves first First Lady Martha Danbridge Washington to answer...
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In The Heights achieves new heights with its Spanish language debut (review)
In The Heights in Spanish is a show to shout about. The Broadway smash by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes, that swept New York’s 2008 theatre awards, including the coveted Tony Award for...
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Kipling’s Jungle Book meets the creative team at Imagination Stage (review)
Starting with Kendra Rai’s gorgeously hued Indian-spice costumes, conjuring tamarind, cinnamon and saffron, Imagination Stage’s production of The Jungle Book brings to life the rich imaginative world...
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Six Degrees of Separation Review: Conning Rich Parents in the ’80s
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn’t want to turn the experience into an...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp at Adventure Theatre MTC (review)
Scheherazade’s mystical folktale, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, still spins its magic. Taken from James Norris’ 1940 adaptation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, Adventure Theatre MTC’s...
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Hub Theatre’s new season announced
Hub Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will offer a new production of a play familiar to Hub audiences, a brand spanking new play written by an area playwright, and another brand new play written by a...
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