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Zack and David’s Capital Fringe BINGO boards ready to play this weekend
It’s that time of year again! That most glorious time each summer when for one magical week the Capital Fringe festival is extended. It’s a great chance to see the hit Fringe shows you missed or...
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4615 Theatre Company launches its first full season
The 4615 Theatre Company has joined the ranks of full-time producing DC-area theaters this year with a four-production schedule balanced between classic and contemporary stories. The Silver...
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Theater Alliance’s next season includes two reinvisioned plays
Anacostia’s Theater Alliance, which scored big earlier this past June with the debut Mollye Maxner’s devised play, Still Life With Rocket, will do itself one better this year, with two plays in...
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Signature’s annual Open House, a free day-long festival in Shirlington...
It was in the spring of 2007 when the Signature Theatre decided to hold its first-ever Open House event, a chance to introduce itself to those in the community who weren’t familiar with the theater,...
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Forum Theatre reveals 3 of the 4 plays in its 13th season
Silver Spring’s Forum Theatre will produce four plays — one of them yet to be announced — in a season which features the human struggle against the crushing forces of convention. In the season-opening...
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CATF’s Ed Herendeen remembers Sam Shepard
Tonight at 7:45pm, Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters will dim their lights in honor of Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and director who died of complications of ALS on Thursday, July 27 on his farm in...
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Thurgood at Olney Theatre: Doing Thurgood Marshall justice
As the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall is one of the most important judges in U.S. history. He remained on the Court from 1967 until 1991. His leadership through...
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Circus! at Puppet Co (review of The Greatest Show on Strings)
The Greatest Show on Strings! This is how our Ringmaster describes Circus! at The Puppet Co. after he has entered the stage’s single ring. What follows is thirty-five minutes of engaging big top...
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Lysistrata Jones at Red Branch Theatre (review)
Happiness is tucked away in an office park in Columbia, MD. Amid the chiropractors, computer businesses, dance schools and Asian delis is the Red Branch Theatre Company, currently the home of a sunny...
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Cast of The King and I set for Aug 14 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS...
The National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I is currently wowing audiences at the Kennedy Center, and many of its cast will be spending their...
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WSC Avant Bard’s 2017-2018 Season
WSC Avant Bard will bring some familiar names into its three-production 2017-2018 season. Lauren Gunderson (I and You) brings us the life and times of a pioneering physicist and mathematician in Emile:...
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Barbara Cook. A fan remembers her fabulous second act
Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that “There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald never met Barbara Cook, the beloved Broadway star and singer who passed away on August 8, 2017 at...
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The Terms of My Surrender Review: Michael Moore’s Broadway Debut, not just a...
“The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him,” Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front of an American...
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Will Gartshore among DC all star cast in A Little Night Music
When Will Gartshore had the opportunity to be in Signature Theatre’s upcoming production of A Little Night Music, there wasn’t much need to think about it. “You just say ‘yes’ to a Stephen Sondheim...
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Review: Tom Teasely underscoring The Cabinet of Dr Caligari closes this weekend
Looking for something a little… weird? Have I got a show for you. A Zombie. A Mad Doctor. A Carnival. An Insane Asylum. Live Music. Yes, a garden of delights awaits you, courtesy of Constellation...
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Review: Big Fish at Keegan Theatre
In my family, my father was the Big Fish: a teller of tall tales and elaborate shaggy dog stories. Most families have someone like him: someone for whom life must be larger, greater, more colorful than...
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Creative Cauldron’s new season
It will be time for the Women’s Voices Festival next January, but at Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron, every play in its 2017-2018 season will be an examination of the experiences of women — of all...
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Whipping, or The Football Hamlet (review)
Whipping, or the Football Hamlet has rushed into CUA’s Callan Theater with Kathleen Akerley calling this play as writer and director as she does most every humid DC August. As a theatergoer, it’s an...
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Shakespeare Theatre’s Free for All, an Othello for these times (review)
Shakespeare is our North Star because every time we do one of his great plays, it is an opportunity to rethink our assumptions, as they define our present selves. I first saw Othello in 1969, when the...
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Deep Cuts: a Lesson from Whipping’s Beer Man
In the past few days, as I’ve let Kathleen Akerley’s play Whipping, or The Football Hamlet (and this review) settle in my mind, I realize that my review perhaps comes off more harshly critical than I...
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