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Epic Rwanda play, the first from actor Jay O. Sanders, opens Mosaic Theater
Mosaic’s Triple Launch: New Company, New Playwright Jay O. Sanders, and New Play, Unexplored Interior Jay O. Sanders is an actor. After a long, varied, and busy career on stage, on TV, and in film, he...
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King Charles III Review: The Current British Royal Family in A Shakespearean...
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That’s the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett’s cleverly conceived...
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Brooklyn to Broadway with Randy Graff (review)
“Made in Brooklyn…Bound for Broadway” is the cabaret performance by Randy Graff that played Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater as the most recent entry in its Barbara Cook Spotlight series. You see,...
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Winners and Losers, a sure win at Woolly Mammoth (review)
What determines whether something is a winner or a loser? Names and places like the Washington Monument, Bernie Sanders, and indigenous people from other nations are subject to discussion (and...
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Darius & Twig, a lyrical, affecting tale of friendship and perseverance at...
“What happens to a dream deferred?…Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” wondered poet Langston Hughes in his 1951 work “Harlem”. Over sixty years later in that very borough, the...
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Fences scores a hit at Everyman Theatre (review)
Sometimes you just get in your own way. Dragging my heels on Fences at Everyman due to a horrible cold and my dogged belief it is not my favorite August Wilson play—Pulitzer Prize and love for the...
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A smart, surreal Smartphones from Ambassador Theater (review)
A must-see, wacky send-up, Smartphones, is a fast-paced one-act about the fear of life without a mobile phone. Written in English by Spanish playwright Emilio Williams, award-winning director Joe Banno...
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Deathtrap, frightfully fun, at NextStop Theatre (review)
It’s sometimes hard to properly merge comedy with suspense on the stage, but at NextStop Theatre, Deathtrap is a diabolically clever thriller that combines acerbic wit, mysterious anticipation and...
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Unexplored Interior from Mosaic Theater Company
Mosaic Theater Company does not, it appears, intend to tread lightly. Its inaugural season opened with the new play by Jay O. Sanders, Unexplored Interior (This Is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the...
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The Cripple of Inishmaan from Scena Theatre (review)
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh takes place in the isolated Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 1934. The familiar rhythms of life on the island of Inishmaan are disrupted when news...
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Hell is … Nu Sass takes on Sartre and suffering
Starting this week, Nu Sass stages Sartre’s famous play as it was first presented, performing No Exit in a living room size venue with space for just 20 people. Here, director Angela Kay Pirko examines...
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Henry is Henrietta in Henri IV, Part 1 from Brave Spirits
One of the hardest things about producing a Shakespeare play is making it feel up to date. Paraphrasing Jack Crew when contemplating playing Hamlet in Slings and Arrows, “Every time the audience hears...
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Landless lands in Frederick
For those wondering what ever happened to Landless Theatre Company, the answer arrived this morning. Landless Theatre Company, headed by Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman, is busy working on...
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World Builders, a love story from Forum Theatre (review)
It would have been easy for Johnna Adams, whose World Builders at Forum Theatre focuses on two drug trials participants being treated for Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD), to write a play about a...
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On Your Feet Review: Emilio and Gloria Estefan’s Story in Song and Dance
From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics say. But it...
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The Comedy of Errors review: Shakespeare in prison, now at the Public
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Center Stage, has been leaving Baltimore over the past few weeks to go to prison in New York. He’s also been busy in homeless shelters and recreation centers...
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Nick Blaemire in free concert at the Kennedy Center this Saturday
This Saturday night, November 7th on The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, musical theatre fans will get the chance to catch up with writer Nick Blaemire, whose career was launched at Signature...
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Kyle Coffman gets his dream role in Arena Stage’s new take on Oliver!
When Kyle Coffman sings “Consider Yourself” as the Artful Dodger in Oliver at Arena Stage, the words “part of the family” hits close to home. As a fourth-generation performer, Coffman grew up around...
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Cabaret Noir from Happenstance Theater (review)
It was a Dark and Stormy Night. (insert sound of typewriter keys clacking here). Actually, the evening I saw Happenstance Theater’s Cabaret Noir in Baltimore, we had springlike temperatures and only a...
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No Exit, a closeup of Sartre’s Hell from Nu Sass (review)
Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is one of those canonic icons that most theater-literate folks are familiar with but probably haven’t seen. When intellectuals of Sartre’s type attempt to market their...
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