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Native Gardens review: laugh out loud comedy
Karen Zacarías’ laugh-a-minute comedy Native Gardens has arrived at exactly the right time, delivering a dearly-needed burst of satire and levity to Washington, DC audiences. Director Blake Robison and...
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How a good play turned into another low for American theater
We welcome back playwright and professor R. W. Schneider in another of his insights on life and American theatre. “In the quiet pond of my office a mystery had opened its toothy jaws and swum forward.”...
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Bring a Herd – Woolly Mammoth’s new app entices audiences in the age of...
How many times have you tried to make plans with a friend to see a show, only to have it all get lost in phone tag, conflicting schedules, and awkwardness over who will be stuck with the bill? Woolly...
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KPOP Review: a wildly entertaining trip inside a K-Pop Music Factory
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group F8 and...
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Rapture, Blister, Burn review
Two plays in one: a well-observed drama about a woman’s mid-life crisis, and an academic and occasionally comedic delve into the complexities of feminist theory. Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions’...
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Bernstein on Broadway Review: an exquisite evening
A year-long international celebration of the life of Leonard Bernstein called “Bernstein at 100” received its official launch at a memorable, one-night-only show Bernstein on Broadway in the Kennedy...
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The Magic Flute review. In Series in a new venue
Your mission: Venture to the land of Adams Morgan until you see a temple at 16th and Fuller. From Fuller turn right at Mozart Place, past the construction, into the auto-gated parking lot. Then look...
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Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew brings actress Carolyn Stefanie Clay back home to DC.
In theater circles, Dominique Morisseau is regarded as one of the most significant and talented African-American playwrights working today. Last year, she made the list of Top 20 Most Produced...
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A Clockwork Orange Review: Off-Broadway homoerotic dance drama about crime...
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy young...
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real Review. Tennessee Williams as seen by National...
Adventurous DC theatre-goers, act now. You have but two more opportunities to see something unique and artistically gratifying: The National Theatre of Ghana performing its version of Tennessee...
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The Bridges of Madison County review
When the expressive Erin Granfield sings about Iowa, drawing out each letter and syllable, you learn everything you need to know about her character’s quiet restlessness and pent-up longing. Granfield...
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How I Became a Pirate review. Adventure Theatre MTC’s most excellent adventure
There came a point toward the end of How I Became a Pirate (which opened this weekend at Adventure Theatre MTC) when, during an ensemble musical number, my eyes were darting from one part of the stage...
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Constellation’s throwing a wild, wild Wild Party review
Nothing succeeds like excess, Oscar Wilde once wrote, and nowhere is that more true than in America. We are the land that invented competitive eating; when the Olympics finally welcomed professional...
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Load-in, tech and grooming. Cat-tress Sweet Bea gets ready for her...
Thrilling whisker-tingling moment to be inside the Lansburgh Theatre at last. I was met at the door and escorted to my private dressing room. There was my name on the door. It’s spacious and even has...
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The Treasurer review: a family’s final drama stars Deanna Dunagan and Peter...
Max Posner’s play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take stock of the...
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Stones in His Pockets review, captivating, serious comedy
“Kids these days,” or so I’m told, use “extra” as an adjective to denote that something is more than what is usual, expected, or necessary. As a noun, it means a person hired daily to play a minor part...
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Michael Kahn directs Pinter one acts The Lover and The Collection
“We aren’t playing it for comedy, but you don’t actually play comedy for comedy anyway.” Michael Kahn (who is, as most readers will know, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Theatre Company) is readying a...
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How Michael Kahn plans to exit Shakespeare Theatre Company
We were in the closing moments of my talk with Michael Kahn, then in the midst of directing two Pinter one acts. Given his recent announcement that he will leave Shakespeare Theatre Company in July,...
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Insights from inside I KILLED MY MOTHER
Hey, DC theatre fam, Jon Jon here, with an interview from some key players in I KILLED MY MOTHER by Andras Visky closing this weekend at Spooky Action Theater. I took some time to speak with Producer...
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Kwame Kwei-Armah accepts leadership of one of London’s major theatres
Georgia Snow of The Stage broke the news that Kwame Kwei-Armah, once his tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage ends this June, will become Artistic Director of The Young Vic in London....
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