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Three Tall Women Review: Glenda Jackson and Albee on Broadway, Triumphant
“I was tall and I was strong,” recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or cries in...
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Iron Crow cancels Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi amidst sexual harassment...
Update: the cast is holding a staged reading of the play. Cash donations accepted for the Trevor Project. Reservations strongly suggested. ——————– Baltimore’s Iron Crow Theatre has closed down its...
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DCTS’ best fake news: Trump buys naming rights to Kennedy Center and other...
MEMO TO SELF DATE: March 31, 2018 RE: DCTS April Fools Story All right, dammit, think! It’s two hours from April Fools, and you haven’t thought up an April Fools prank for...
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Mosaic Theater Company announces its next 8 play season
Mosaic Theater Company’s fourth season will bring iconic figures from our past — Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Donny Hathaway, the great R&B and Gospel singer Rosetta Tharpe and her protégé...
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Nora Achrati an inspired choice as Narrator in The Pavilion at Hub Theatre...
Craig Wright’s The Pavilion is a modern classic because it wades through a starlit sentimentality on its way to a clear-eyed lesson. As a tale about a man trying to reunite with his lost love at a...
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Review: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
If this was the concert version, what on earth will they add to a fully-staged version? Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was the latest in the string of musicals being broadcast live on...
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Iron Crow moves last 2 shows of the season to summer; plans community forum...
As reported here last week, the Baltimore company Iron Crow Theatre is dealing with a sexual harassment allegation, which forced cancellation of the opening of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi,...
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theatreWashington announces date for Helen Hayes Awards and exciting new venue
Attendees of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards on May 14, 2018 will be heading to a new part of DC for DC theatre’s biggest night. theatreWashington has announced that this 34th year of the awards will be...
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Review: Paper Dolls from Mosaic Theater
“My drag isn’t a costume I use to hide in,” famed performance artists and playwright Taylor Mac says, “it’s exposing what I look like on the inside.” And the same could be said for the five characters...
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Review: Cabaret Noir by Happenstance
Take a tip from me. If your jones for hard-nosed detectives, shady nighttime dealings on foggy piers, dive bars serving bathtub gin, torch songs, sassy dames and the like can’t be satiated by WAMU’s...
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Nameless gets intimate, producing its latest play in a DC motel room. We talk...
Site-specific shows are not new to DC theatre. We’ve had plays performed in a swimming pool, in bars, in vacant spaces and in a residential home. Nameless Theater is taking it further, producing their...
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Before they reach The Wall. Experience the desert crossing in convincing...
If you’re looking for the cutting edge of DC theater, look for the groups who are interrogating the boundaries of what it means to even be a theater. From Forum’s actor-less The State to TBD’s...
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Review: Honey, the shortest show in town
Rare is the show that would be better if it were significantly longer. At a mere thirty-ish minutes, Nameless Theater’s Honey comes out to nearly a dollar a minute for the ticket price. And while those...
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Review: Potted Potter laughs its way through all 7 Harry Potter books in 70...
It’s simply magical when a family-friendly comedy show can make children and adults laugh wildly in their seats. Throughout Potted Potter, J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world serves as the backdrop to two...
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Review: Max McLean’s return visit with C. S. Lewis Onstage: The Most...
Wit and intelligence are under attack in today. So is faith. And the idea of intelligence working in tandem with religious convictions are often at odds with one another. The argument could be that a...
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Anything goes in Faction of Fools’ 10th season
Murder. The conquest of France. Learning to become an actor. And food. Lots and lots of food. Gut-busting portions of foods; enough to last a decade. What could be better subjects for a little commedia...
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Gay comedy Top and Bottom (review)
Rainbow Theatre Project’s production of Kevin Michael West’s comedy Top and Bottom contains total male nudity—of both the physical and emotional varieties. What begins as a bondage-filled romp between...
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Review: New opera Florida from UrbanArias
With Florida, the world premiere of an opera by composer Randall Eng and librettist Donna Di Novelli, Urban Arias just got bigger. It’s not just that the piece of ninety-five minutes didn’t feel like...
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Review: August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at Arena Stage
Seeing Two Trains Running at Arena Stage marks the halfway point of my consummation of playwright August Wilson’s decalogue of dramas expressing the 20th century black experience in America. Viewing...
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Tonya Beckman is a sultry, playful Don Juan in Taffety Punk’s production...
Molière’s Don Juan—the 17th Century tale of a rakish nobleman whose insatiable libido and incorrigible charm lead him from town to town, deceiving (and deflowering) damsel after damsel to his ultimate...
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