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“It’s a MUUUSICAL!” Something Rotten! at National Theatre (review)
You can’t judge a show by its title, and never was that more the case than with Something Rotten!, the musical farce now appearing at the National Theatre, which provides a rip-roaring, laugh-out-loud...
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Schenkkan’s Great Society: President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s tumultuous term...
If the shade of Lyndon Johnson permitted himself a small smile last night, who could blame him? The irony of having the Washington opening of the second of Robert Schenkkan’s two-play cycle about our...
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Cabaret Rising at the Dupont Underground (review)
Deep in the bowels of the earth, unnoticed by most yet just beneath the feet of people visiting Dupont Circle, and less than a mile from the White House, lurks the Dupont Underground. Once a defunct...
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Julia Cho’s Aubergine, a Korean-American family’s drama (review)
In Julia Cho’s Aubergine, a Korean-American chef deals with his dying father. Cho uses food as the cornerstone for a sensitive though meandering meditation on the difficulties of family, communication,...
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Set Designer Paige Hathaway wins Live Design Rising Star Award
Congratulations to DC based set designer, Paige Hathaway, the go-to designer for many DC area theatre companies, who will be the recipient of Live Design’s 2018 Rising Star Award to be presented at...
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2018 Love Lines Valentines. Free e-cards for theatre lovers
We created this year’s Valentines by pairing images to lines or lyrics from four shows from this year’s season – The Humans, Twelfth Night, All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, The Late Wedding – and...
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All She Must Possess. Matisse, Gertrude Stein and the Cone sisters at Rep...
Of all the reasons to love Baltimore, perhaps the most sumptuous are the Cone sisters—iron-willed Dr. Claribel and the softer, more social Miss Etta—and specifically, the stunning collection of modern...
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No Word in Guyanese For Me from Rainbow Theatre Project (review)
Much like the photo album that plays a pivotal role in numerous scenes of the play, No Word in Guyanese For Me leaves the audience with poignant images: a pair of Guyanese feet gratefully slipping out...
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Iyona Blake in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (review)
Heartache, pain, regrets, joys, and a fair share of personal demons might fell a weaker person. But not even time in prison could stop the musical force of nature known to fans as Lady Day. If singing...
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Danai Gurira’s comedy Familiar at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (review)
Familiar, by Tony Award winning playwright Danai Gurira, is an intimate comedy-drama set in the home of a first-generation Zimbabwean family living in Minnesota. The family has gathered over the...
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dog & pony dc puts on Peepshow (review)
Traditionally, a peepshow is a one-way affair—someone performs and someone (or someones) else observe, usually without being seen themselves. But I knew walking into dog & pony dc’s contribution to...
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (review)
Adventure Theatre MTC’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a laugh-out-loud journey through the worst calamities of childhood, and appealing to kids and adults alike. Of...
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Noura from Shakespeare Theatre Company (review)
It would be an odd experience, watching Heather Raffo’s Noura on a double bill with Danai Gurira’s fine Familiar. I almost did that, bookending the weekend with the two shows about immigrant...
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Coriolanus from Brave Spirits (review)
One of the joys of theatre is seeing a classic play presented in a surprising manner that gives new life to the story. Brave Spirits Theatre’s lively production of Coriolanus once again illustrates...
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An off-script love story from Something Rotten! Husband and wife Rob McClure...
Most theater performers don’t get to spend Valentine’s Day with their significant other, but that’s not the case for Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis, who spent the night kissing, embracing and singing...
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The Princess and the Pauper: A Bollywood Tale (review)
Imagination Stage takes Mark Twain’s classic ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ and with a sprightly script by Anu Yadav, cleverly relocates it to a bedazzling fairytale India, complete with music and...
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Noura playwright Heather Raffo, bringing Iraqi women’s stories to the stage
It was more than a dozen years ago that actor Heather Raffo, whose family is from Iraq, recognized a void of female Iraqi protagonists in American theater. That propelled her to write and perform her...
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New version of Chess proves its next move should be Broadway (review)
Chess at the Kennedy Center is a checkmate. In other words, this formerly troubled musical with a beloved score, is taking the Eisenhower Theatre stage by storm in a staged, semi-concert format that...
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The Lathe of Heaven, a respectful and funny adaptation of the late Ursula Le...
Dreams often come with wild, cartoonish images. We wake up remembering their eccentricity and wonder: “How did my brain come up with that?” Watching The Lathe of Heaven is like stepping into that....
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Robbie Schaefer’s stage debut in Light Years is luminous (review)
Light Years celebrates the cornerstone to all human relationships, the first and most defining: child and parent. In this case, the focus is Robbie Schaefer and his father Konnie (Bobby Smith). Konnie...
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