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Monday, April 10, 2017

Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs at Theater J (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

You think you’ve got problems? Try being a too-smart-for-his-own-good Jewish kid in Brooklyn in 1937. Neil Simon’s largely autobiographical comedy follows his alter ego Eugene (C…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum, a rich phantasmagorical experience (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Lovers of the new, the weird and the wonderful, take note: everything you’re looking for is in Baltimore, at Submersive Productions’ fantastical new piece,  H.T. Darling’s…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AM
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them from Iron Crow (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

At its heart, family is less about bloodlines than choice: who do you love, and most importantly, who loves you back? That’s the crux of Iron Crow Theatre’s production of  A. Re…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Grug and the Rainbow at The Kennedy Center (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

The best children’s shows for young audiences are often ones that are the most like silent movies: minimal talk, maximum action, and if you happen to miss any dialogue because of the r…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Oh, what a tyrant: Richard III at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

The part of King Richard in Richard III is a plum for any actor lucky enough to be cast in the role. Part stand-up comic, part perennial outsider, and part moustache-twirling villain, Richa…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Show Boat at Toby’s Dinner Theatre (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

The legendary team of Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern created some of the best music ever written for the American stage in Show Boat. And each song gets a stellar rendition by Toby’…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Magic abounds in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Adventure Theatre MTC (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe stars two excessively talented actors, a marvelous script, inventive technical design and a clever director, all waiting for you at Adventure Theatre M…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM
Monday, December 5, 2016

Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Christmas Carol set in Baltimore (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

This year, if you see just one Dickens’ Yuletide story, let it be Chesapeake Shakespeare’s fine set-in-Baltimore A Christmas Carol. It has it all and then some: a nicely scary …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM
Monday, November 21, 2016

The Second City’s Black Side of the Moon at Woolly Mammoth (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

You know how sometimes you laugh til you hurt? Or when you’re hurt so much the only real response left is laughter. Those are the real underpinnings of good comedy: tell the truth, th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PM
Thursday, November 10, 2016

High flying Mary Poppins at Olney Theatre Center by Jill Kyle-Keith

Sometimes nostalgia can be disappointing, but even so, it’s awfully nice to go home again. So it is with Olney Theatre Center’s Mary Poppins. The movie you remember has been re…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM
Monday, November 7, 2016

Happenstance’s Gorey-ish Cabaret Macabre returns to Baltimore (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Still hanging on to those last few pieces of Halloween candy? Hesitant to fold your skeleton t-shirt into the Out Of Season box of clothes? Luckily for those who revel in the season of shive…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AM
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

An Unexpected Zombie Prom (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Zombie Prom, now playing at Unexpected Stage Company, has great provenance, with a book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe. Both went on to adapt The Fix and The Witches o…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:07PM
Friday, September 30, 2016

Knuffle Bunny delights at Adventure Theatre MTC (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Everyone knows that an hour speeds by quickly when you’re having fun. In children’s theater, though, that isn’t always the case: what works for the teeny weenies often bore…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Othello at Chesapeake Shakespeare (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Othello is one of the crown jewels of Shakespearean plays. The tragedy of Othello, a black general in the ranks of the Venetian army, is one of an eminent outsider who falls in love and marr…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PM
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Sister Act at Toby’s Dinner Theatre “heavenly” (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

There’s some serious jiving going on at Toby’s Dinner Theater. No need to dress up too much- just grab your rosary and hymnal, and head out the door to Sister Act. It’sR…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Hand to God at Studio Theatre (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Not everything made big is made better. And not everything on a large Broadway stage is improved by a cavernous space. Sometimes the best gifts are in tiny boxes. So it is with Studio Theat…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PM
Monday, July 11, 2016

Brownie and Lolli Go To Hollywood (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Brownie and Lolli Go To Hollywood, a tale of two girls off to fame and fortune via burlesque, sounds like an amusing evening’s romp on paper, but up close, that paper’s pretty th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

The Good Death (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Set on a stoop in a Staten Island neighborhood, The Good Death covers a lot of ground: Alzheimer’s, caregiving, mental illness, the American Jewish experience, euthanasia, marriage e…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AM
Friday, July 8, 2016

Perfect Liars Club (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

We’ve all been there. That boozy party where someone tells a great story. The crowd is enraptured, laughs at all the right spots, and you’re with them, too- til you realize you j…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AM
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Million Dollar Quarter from Infinity Theatre (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

On December 4, 1956, two young musicians  dropped in on a recording session at Sun Record Studio in Memphis, for what turned into an iconic night of jamming and jawing that changed the co…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Jumanji at Adventure Theatre/MTC (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Great Googly Moogly! Did you know there are monkeys loose in Glen Echo Park? Not only monkeys, but a giant snake, some rhinos, and some huge buzzy insecty things. It’s a veritable jung…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PM
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Ed Sylvanus Iskander tackles and conquers Taming of the Shrew (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Taming of the Shrew is an extraordinary production, one of the most original and well thought out presentations of Shakespeare I’ve seen in years. D…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PM
Thursday, May 19, 2016

City of Angels (review) at NextStop Theatre a snappy, stylish film noir musical by Jill Kyle-Keith

Next Stop Theatre Company’s City of Angels is grand – a swan song to film noir and its backstage action, a gem of a show that won multiple Tony Awards in 1989 including Best Mu…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM
Monday, April 25, 2016

Hugo Ball: A Dada Puppet AdveNTurE from Pointless Theatre (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

If everything means nothing, and art can be a smear on the wall – DADA speaking -what, then, defines and separates art from indecipherable noise?  It’s a question Pointless Thea…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:43PM
Friday, March 18, 2016

Critic lands role in Diary of Anne Frank, now at Compass Rose by Jill Kyle-Keith

There’s a saying: All roads eventually lead home. Though as Moses found out, that journey can sometimes take a few decades longer than expected. It all started innocently enough. Two …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AM
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Wild Oats at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

A large cast of eccentric characters and a convoluted plot involving mistaken identities, a traveling troupe of itinerant actors, sailors, a deserted wife, a lascivious pastor and a virtuous…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:19PM
Monday, February 22, 2016

Romeo and Juliet, Synetic-style, still enthralls by Jill Kyle-Keith

Alas, poor Shakespeare. As it turns out, you don’t really need language to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet. In Synetic’s electric retelling of the star-crossed lovers’ t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Compass Rose Theater (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Tennessee Williams, midway through his career, wrote the quintessential Southern family drama: filled with scheming relatives, family wealth, and an unspoken secret, it won the Pulitzer Priz…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AM
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

South Pacific at Toby’s Dinner Theatre (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

  A friend of mine judges Asian restaurants solely on their sweet and sour soup: mess that up and not much else that follows will matter. But deliver a soup that evenly balances the swe…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:21PM
Thursday, December 10, 2015

A Year with Frog and Toad at Imagination Stage (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

Imagination Stage’s A Year with Frog and Toad is exactly what the title implies: two friends have adventures during the four seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter- and a long slee…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:51PM
Monday, December 7, 2015

The Santaland Diaries (review) by Jill Kyle-Keith

For those of you already stuffed to the gills with sugary-sweet Christmas extravaganzas, might I offer a little holiday antidote to the saccharine overload? David Sedaris’ memories of …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards