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The Dog Must Die at Highwood Theatre (review)
Overlong and undercooked, Highwood Theatre’s The Dog Must Die puts the stop in dystopia. This tale of a society in which something has gone terribly, terribly wrong begins promisingly enough, with...
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Perisphere takes on Molière’s Tartuffe (review)
Perisphere Theater refreshes Molière’s classic Tartuffe with a skilled and playful cast. But you need be patient. The show digs itself a very deep hole in its first full scene, exhibiting most of its...
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On manhood and memory: In Search of My Father (review)
“Just what kind of man would abandon his son?” This is the central question writer/performer W. Allen Taylor has been asking in his twenty-year running play In Search of My Father … Walkin’ Talkin’...
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4,380 Nights at Signature Theatre (review)
When a play grips your thoughts and continues to cling to them past the curtain call, then you know you’ve witnessed a treasure. The elements of 4,380 Nights blend together to generate a captivating...
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Brave Spirits contemporizes Euripides’ Trojan Women with today’s diverse...
The future is female. The future is non-binary. The future is genderqueer. The future is trans. The future is queer. But before we reach the future, and while we strive in the present, it is imperative...
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Opera Lafayette performs Erminia and La forêt enchantée (The Enchanted...
Watching a Baroque opera delivered by Ryan Brown and Opera Lafayette can feel like a refreshing “re-set” time-travel from warp-speed to the pace of a gently-moving skiff down a lazy river. Even the...
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Prosky, Robards, Huston, Durang, Bernhardt. Stories from Theresa Rebeck and...
You have until February 11th to see The Way of the World at Folger Theatre. Playwright Theresa Rebeck has rewritten the Restoration classic and directs a cast led by Kristine Nielsen. In part one of my...
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Fire and Air Review: Terrence McNally’s new play about Diaghilev, Nijinsky...
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Picasso, Matisse, and...
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Swan song for DC’s Source Festival, and complete list of festival works 2008...
Ten years. Eighty-two productions — two hundred thirty-eight, if you count each short production separately. An Osborne Award. A Steinberg honor. Over fifteen hundred artists — and it’s over. Done....
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Skeleton Crew at Baltimore Center Stage (review)
That a play set in an auto parts stamping factory is part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is reason enough to see Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau’s fine, emotionally feral play that features...
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Win 2 pairs of tickets to Something Rotten! DCTS weekend ticket giveaway.
Two lucky readers and their guests will have the chance to attend opening night of the smash Broadway musical, Something Rotten!, Tuesday, February 6 at The National Theatre. With its heart on its...
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American Ballet Theatre’s delectable Whipped Cream (review)
The Nunes memo, election tampering by Russia, the refugee crisis, mass shootings, harassment and molestation, Olympic doping, North Korean nukes, climate change, fascism, nationalism, racism,...
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Booker T. Washington’s messages in Character Building resound today (review)
Most of us have heard of Booker T. Washington as the counterpoint to W.E.B. DuBois, one espousing the “safe’ position of newly freed blacks to better themselves through industry and service while the...
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Today’s war on women reflected in The Trojan Women Project (review)
Playing like variations on the theme of the ancient Greek play The Trojan Woman, Brave Spirits’ The Trojan Women Project faces head-on a number of issues ripped from the headlines and lifelines of...
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Review: It’s the Rest of the World That Looks So Small at Flying V
Those unfamiliar with the works of Jonathan Coulton are likely to find themselves going down the Google rabbit hole after seeing It’s the Rest of the World That Looks So Small, a theatrical revue...
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Kennedy Center’s family friendly Digging Up Dessa (review)
Laura Schellhardt’s Digging Up Dessa tell the story of a troubled teenager who copes with a family tragedy through her interest in fossils. This world premiere production, commissioned by the Kennedy...
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Red Velvet, the real life story of actor Ira Aldridge at Chesapeake...
In the early 19th century, Ira Aldridge, an African American actor and playwright, was performing on European stages. A fraction of Aldridge’s miraculous story is portrayed in director Shirley Basfield...
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2018 Helen Hayes nominees announced. In the Heights gets most nods for two...
The 2018 Helen Hayes Awards nominations were announced Monday night by theatreWashington. Round House Theatre was the most nominated company with 22 nominations. The most nominated production with the...
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La Foto (A Selfie Affair) at GALA Hispanic Theatre (review)
The Internet, cell phones, and photoshopping are not only for the young, and the narcissism they engender is not only the provenance of millennials. The most refreshing thing about Gustavo Ott’s La...
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Handbagged at Round House Theatre (review)
Forget everything you have assumed about Handbagged, Moira Buffini’s marvelous play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is different, and better, than that. Here,...
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