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Gimme a Band! Gimme a Banana! from Pointless Theatre
Those of us at a certain age grew up with the image of Carmen Miranda as the exotic Brazilian fruit wearing artist who was all the rage in the 1950’s. With Gimme a Band!, Pointless Theatre provides...
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The Dealer of Ballynafeigh at Keegan Theatre (review)
Farce gets a bad rap as a genre. Pundits will call a sporting event or a political campaign a farce when they want to denigrate it, but in the theater, sometimes there’s nothing more enjoyable than...
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What happens when an ice cream company gets inspired by August Wilson?
On Tuesday, October 20th, Everyman Theatre opened their production of Fences, and debuted a new August Wilson inspired ice cream. Of all the creative artists who contribute to the vision of a play –...
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Dames at Sea on Broadway Review: A Hollywood Musical that began Off-Off Broadway
At the curtain call it struck home what’s special about the first Broadway production of Dames at Sea, the 1930’s musical created in the 1960s: Only six performers take bows. Busby Berkeley used casts...
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Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End at Arena Stage (review)
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End is full of the wit and wisdom of the woman herself; written by journalist/sister duo Allison and Margaret Engel, the play allows Erma (Barbara Chisholm) to tell her own...
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Avenue Q at Constellation? Yes! and tickets are going fast.
One of the most surprising offerings in this DC theater season comes from Constellation Theatre, who are deviating from their usual epic fare with blockbuster Tony Award-winning show Avenue Q, a...
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Juliette Binoche in Antigone at The Kennedy Center (review)
Juliette Binoche, the movie star who won an Oscar in the 90s for The English Patient, plays the title role in the new production of the Greek tragedy Antigone, which began a short (through Oct. 25...
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In honor of Henry V and the battle of Agincourt, 600 years ago this Sunday
“We band of brothers… ” Shakespeare has Henry V speak to his army on the eve of St. Crispin’s day, as he prepares to lead them against the French’s overwhelming forces in the Battle of Agincourt. That...
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Technicolor Life at Rep Stage
In Jami Brandli’s Technicolor Life, Maxine Hunter (Isa Guitan) is a precocious ninth grader with a passion for SAT words and troublemaking friends, but she has more on her plate than the typical...
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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Artistic Director, Howard Shalwitz, joins Theatre...
Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, has begun a year long Artist-in-Residency program with the Connecticut-based design firm Theatre Projects. But fear not, Shalwitz...
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Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway (review)
Women’s rituals, eco-spirituality, shamanism, and Celtic wisdom are the themes in Sandra Kammann’s self-produced offering for the Women’s Voices in Theater Festival. The unabashed celebration of the...
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RAW at Venus theatre
Raw milk is liquid gold. Or so Eliza (Allison Turkel), the human matriarch of Red Robin Farm, believes. It’s nutritious and pure, and she thinks it will save her derelict, multi-generational dairy...
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Shakespeare gets revenge in Titus Andronicus at Chesapeake Shakespeare
“Give the Public What It Wants”. This mantra of theatrical management goes back a long, long time, and long before he became the Elizabethan age’s Boy Wonder, William Shakespeare wrote a rather...
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Girlstar at Signature. You’ll love it or hate it. (review)
I haven’t seen a show so polarize an audience since Studio Theatre staged Annie Baker’s The Aliens, where I witnessed multiple patrons demanding their money back at intermission and a patron in the...
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Sylvia Review: Annaleigh Ashford is the Best Dog Ever
Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called “the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” and portrays the...
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The Night Alive at Round House Theatre (review)
Time is out of joint in Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive, making its regional premier at Round House Theatre. Taking place solely in the rundown apartment of Tommy, a Dublin burnout trying to get by,...
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Avenue Q at Constellation Theatre (review)
All of us have shows we haven’t gotten around to seeing yet. We all have our lists- yes, yes, we’ll board a Bolt Bus to NYC soon, gotta get to that one, hear it’s good. Problem is, though, wait too...
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Thérèse Raquin Review: Keira Knightley, Adultery and Murder
Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn’t recognize her; she’s in the background under faded light, the third...
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New Adventures of Don Quixote/Nuevas Aventuras de Don Quijote at GALA (review)
“Is that the real Don Quixote?” whispers one awe-struck, five-year-old boy sitting near me in the GALA Hispanic Theatre, as helmeted actor Roberto Colmenares, gallantly flaunting shield and lance,...
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For the Love of Oscar from the New Millennium Howard Players
This inaugural production of the New Millennium Howard Players opens with a sizzling first scene featuring a delectable Lily played by Annette James being thoroughly courted by Sowande Tichawonna, who...
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