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Mom Baby Gone, the tragicomedy of a pro-life teen (review)
During my formative years in the suburban south, it seemed that the word “pro-life” extended beyond political headlines and chants: it was ingrained in the teen culture. Friends invited me to youth...
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A refreshed, updated Godspell at NextStop (review)
Followers of Jesus post Bible verses on Reddit. John the Baptist unplugs the wifi to get everyone’s attention. The surrendering of your cell phone or laptop is the ultimate show of commitment to the...
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Washington National Opera stages Verdi’s greatest opera (review)
The icy blast that whipped through Washington this past week blew in a work rarely seen to the Kennedy Center’s Opera House Saturday night that both tested one’s brain stamina and also brought some...
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queens review: Martyna Majok’s new play crowds a Queens basement with poor...
In queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as her home,...
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The Intruders takes on gentrification in DC (review)
Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay’s The Intruders is an entertaining satire about the contemporary wave of gentrification in DC that packs lots of laughs, but fails to do more than scratch the surface of a...
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Synetic Season will feature voiceless Shakespeare and New Voices
Synetic Theater has dialed up its customary quota of Silent Shakespeare productions for its 2018-2019 season, but the new theatrical year will also mark another production for Synetic Family Theater...
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Every Brilliant Thing at Olney Theatre Center (review)
The Narrator (Alexander Strain), stands on the top step of an aisle and says that he has three words for anyone in the audience who is contemplating suicide: his voice lowers to nearly a whisper:...
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Olney Theatre’s 2018/2019 season: 4 musicals in its 9 play mainstage series
There will be a whole lotta theater going on at Olney Theatre Center next season. In addition to its nine-production subscription series, Artistic Director Jason Loewith and his crew will welcome The...
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Two Tracy Letts plays make the final list for Steinberg/American Theatre...
According to the press release from the American Theatre Critics Association the organization has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play...
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Taylor Mac-Nificent. Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music:...
It was a divinely beautiful sequence. Down the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater strode the Bowie State University Pep Band. They spread out in front of and on the stage and backed up...
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Contestants announced for Monologue Madness. Watch them compete March 22
With the sounds of shuffling headshots in the background, actors stretched and conducted vocal exercises outside of an Arena Stage rehearsal hall Sunday. It was a standard scene for an open call...
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Maria Manuela Goyanes to step into the role of Woolly Mammoth Artistic...
Maria Manuela Goyanes, The Public Theater’s Director of Producing and Artistic Planning, will be the new Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theater, the company announced today. Goyanes, who, while...
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NextStop announces its sixth professional season for 2018/2019
NextStop Theatre Company has offered professional theater to Herndon, VA and environs for five years, but for years before that the theater’s venue was home to one of the best community theaters in the...
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Gospel recording artist featured in Avant Bard’s revival of The Gospel at...
After Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical – Helen” category),...
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Government study reveals DC arts and culture led the nation in contributions...
According to the newly released study by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, arts and culture have been good for the nation’s economy. And that has been especially true for DC,...
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A Burial Place shows The Wheel has a growing presence in DC (review)
I’m going to spoil one of the twists in A Burial Place for you. It comes about 25 minutes into this 100-minute production of A Burial Place, and sadly those first minutes before learning the twist are...
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Banno’s Porno Pygmalion: Award-winning director back in town for Adult...
Elaine May’s play Adult Entertainment, currently in previews in a production by The Klunch, “is pretty delightful. It’s kind of a porno Pygmalion sort of play, in terms of porn stars suddenly getting...
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Review: The Texas Homecoming Revolution of 1995. Big laughs at Best Medicine Rep
The Texas Homecoming Revolution of 1995 has got to be one of the strangest titles that I’ve ever seen but the production is incredibly entertaining. The fast-moving script by Jennifer Faletto hits all...
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Review: This Little Light at Venus Theatre
This Little Light, like so many Venus Theatre productions, is a gem that radiates the very joy it dares us to find in ourselves, and each other, when we fear we’ve lost it most. If you ask middling...
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Elaine May’s Adult Entertainment from The Klunch, an erudite offshoot from...
What do you think of this script for a possible Merchant/Ivory film? Fade in on Melissa, a young, very three-dimensional woman, sitting on a lounge chair in her underwear. Tina, her faithful maid,...
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