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How Forum is solving the puzzle of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information
“Every character in the Forum production was invented in rehearsal. We worked on how many characters should be in each scene (where not specified), who the characters are, what is their relationship,...
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Death of a Salesman review
There are hardly any travelling salesmen now, and yet we are almost all Willy Loman. We remember the home run we hit to win the big game in high school, when in fact we rode the bench at P.S. 89, and...
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She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange review
Rectangles of Astroturf. A leafless blue tree branch, a standing lamp. Four very, very good actors and a script by playwright Amelia Roper. That’s all Taffety Punk Theatre needs to show us The American...
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The Cradle Will Rock review
You think you’re in for a reenactment of a historical night of American theater, but then The Cradle Will Rock gets rolling and before long you’re plunged into a musical production from Iron Crow...
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Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses review, a sly gut-punch of a story
Black People’s Houses might be this play’s title if it were a play written today and set in DC. That title would probably give a better sense of how provocative and satirical it is. Concerned, as it...
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Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information review
With a title like Love and Information, Forum Theatre’s newest show grants itself a wide warrant, delivering quite a bit of the former and volley after volley of the latter. The show really gets fun...
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The Tarot Reading III at Evening Star Cafe review
I’m no believer in astrology or the arcane arts. And a production that bills itself as part vaudeville, part carnival ride? The last thing I expected was to be moved to tears. But that’s what happened...
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Pinter’s The Lover and The Collection review
Spiraling in, and spiraling out: two opposing journeys are on offer in a pair of hour long Pinter plays, directed by Shakespeare Theatre’s Artisic Director, Michael Kahn. The Lover and The Collection...
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Two visions of Sondheim’s Assassins opens as the country recoils from mass...
As the country grieves over yet another mass shooting and grapples with the question of what could drive anyone to contemplate such a hideous act, two productions of the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman’s...
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Cat-tress Sweet Bea’s debut in The Collection with photo shares
Monday night was opening, and it all came together beautifully. I am deeply aware that I am representing cats everywhere and hope that people will consider that cats are not just lazy animals; they are...
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WAPAVA’s Richard Bauer Award honors Rick Foucheux and Amber Paige McGinnis
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, the DC theater community is invited to the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive’s (WAPAVA) Richard Bauer Award celebration at the Woolly Mammoth Theater, in an evening...
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Langston Hughes, Joseph McCarthy hearings. Why Are You Now … is a timely play
Langston Hughes was a noted poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. It’s no wonder that the literary giant got a “shout out” in Rent’s “La Vie...
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The Washington Ballet’s Russian Masters review
America may be in a new cold war with Putin, but the Washington Ballet this week takes Russia into a white-hot embrace. In her first season last year as artistic director, former American Ballet...
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Directing Constellation’s Wild Party. Creating safe space for intimate and...
“…It may strike you more like a high mass to low instincts … the characters are all id; desperately (and fueled by cocaine and bathtub gin) hoping to express their secret selves, and so realize their...
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Night Train 57: A Sensory-Friendly Folk Opera review
Caravanning to the stars and beyond—to a planet of flowers somewhere at the edge of the universe—is a nice coda to a long week. Even if it is a journey designed for kids. Music, after all, is a magic...
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Review: Blancaflor. At GALA, the wizard is a girl
Another top-notch offering for young audiences began this past weekend: Blancaflor, the latest in the GALita series of theatre for children. GAlita is the arm of GALA Hispanic Theatre that caters to...
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Olney’s Our Town is everyone’s town (review)
It took Olney Theatre, surprisingly, 80 seasons to get around to Thornton Wilder’s iconic Our Town, and with acclaimed director Aaron Posner at the helm, they tackle the challenge of what this...
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Are you now, or have you ever been… review. Shameful Congressional hearing
A writer’s life is peculiarly isolated and the opening sequence of Are you now, or have you ever been… makes that abundantly clear. A typewriter sits on a table with a stack of papers and a wine...
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Assassins from Pallas Theatre Collective (review)
In the wake of an historically deadly mass shooting and a historically unpopular president comes a musical comedy of sorts about guns, presidents, and their tragic interplay from Lincoln to Reagan....
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Musical The Mistress Cycle debuts at Creative Cauldron (review)
What is it about the idea of a mistress? Throughout history the “other woman” has been called all kind of names under the sun, shunned, cast-out, run out of town, off the land – or beheaded. But that...
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