Sunday, May 5, 2013
Unhappy Family Fights It Out at Arena Stage Other Desert Cities, the last play in the 2012-2013 season at Arena Stage, takes place on wall-to-wall white carpet in a living room furnished wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Pas de Deux: Full Meal with a Light Dessert The room is cold, and vapors swirl around the ducts that bring in air — has it been chilled? It smells like what came out of the defroster o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMMonday, April 29, 2013
Searching for Mr. and Mrs. Right in “The Personal(s)” There’s been an accident. We don’t know exactly what happened, but we know that Janna was driving, and we know that Don was maki…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
From The Mountaintop into the Promised Land I thought it was really raining behind the motel room on the Kreeger Theater stage. They must have extended the sprinkler system and built a troug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
A Letter to Mike Daisey Dear Mike, Now that we’ve escaped from the conventions that would keep you on the stage and keep me at the distance of objective criticism; now that I’ve shaken y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15PMMonday, April 1, 2013
This morning I read an article in The Washington Post that helped me understand why the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton sometimes devotes its prodigious talents to plays that aren’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Arena Stage Explores the Lincoln White House Tazewell Thompson’s new play Mary T. & Lizzy K., now playing at Arena Stage, is based on the unlikely friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:26PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Into the Woods Showcases Shenandoah Talent Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods, must pose a tempting challenge for directors. The musical interweaves the plot lines of four familiar …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMSunday, February 17, 2013
(Ten stars if we had them) Zimmerman and Ovid Transform Arena Stage The first thing you notice of course is the pool: you can smell it before you go in; you can feel the water in the air. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMSunday, February 10, 2013
Arena Stage Makes Good People Great The pivotal character in David Lindsay-Abaire’s new play Good People, directed at Arena Stage by Jackie Maxwell, has no lines and never comes onstage.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Appelman and Cisek Plumb the Depths of Henry at the Folger Theatre For a long time I’ve associated Shakespeare’s Henry V with men who go to war to come of age, or men who start a war to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Not By Bread Alone: Extraordinary Food Before taking my seat for Sunday’s performance of Not By Bread Alone, I stepped into the men’s room and blew my nose — really honked it. The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
At first glance, I took Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac for a comedy about a misbegotten wretch whose every chance for happiness is thwarted by his nose, which looks like a noble erect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Beautifully Orchestrated Opus at Winchester Little Theater The opening scene of Opus says a lot about what’s to come. Four men sit on four black stools in a line along the back of the st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSunday, January 6, 2013
Tiresias Speaks Again at Forum Theater The opening scene of We Tiresias poses what appears to be a simple question: What if you could text a couple of your former selves and meet them for a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48AMSaturday, December 29, 2012
Bravura Performance at The Studio Theatre Early in Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad, the Minstrel/Poet says he hopes he never has to tell this story again, meaning, I s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59PMSaturday, December 15, 2012
British Players Do Holiday Vaudeville Attending The Princess and the Sprout is a little like popping in for a Christmas toddy with the kooky…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Shakespeare Yields to Sedaris in Staunton You hear a lot of laughter at Blackfriars Playhouse. Usually it builds, develops, accumulates slowly, and then overflows in torrents that are hard t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Christmas Carol Likely to Become a Loudoun Institution There’s a moment in Once Upon a Christmas Carol, a holiday musical by Run Rabbit Run Theatre, that appears to be a mismatch. Ph…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PM 
