Tuesday, December 16, 2025
A MUSICAL FABLE FOR THEN " AND NOW A cornerstone of the American musical theater canon. Corny and sexist? Undeniably. But it's still thrilling, still brassy, still Broadway. Guys & Dolls…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
A SHTETL REBUILT IN THE ROUND Douglas Sills leads Signature's spare, deeply felt Fiddler on the Roof that puts Anatevka's communal heartbeat at the center The beauty of tradition, Tevye the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
FOWL PLAY: WHEN THE TRUTH TAKES AIM IN THE WILD DUCK Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, now at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Klein Theatre (in a co-production with Theatre for a New Audience), is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
STRATEGIC LOVE PLAY SHOULD COME WITH A WARNING As the old love adage goes: Boy meets Girl, Girl interrogates Boy, Boy tries to leave unsuccessfully, Girl and Boy reconvene… oh, wait, this …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2025
THE WIT AND THE HUMID: AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS An expert in turning the mundane into something paramount and inevitably humorous, David Sedaris uplifted an immense audience at Wolf Tra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CLASSICAL BALLET Founded in New York in 2000 as a means to put professional ballet dancers to work during their summer hiatuses, Chamber Dance Project, now based in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
THREE HOURS IN THE CHURCH OF QUEER LOVE: A COMPLICATED DANCE AT ARENA STAGE Tarell Alvin McCraney (Oscar winner for Moonlight) returns to the stage with We Are Gathered, a lyrical and immers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2025
BENEATH THE SCHMALTZ IS A JOYFUL NOISE Fun, uplifting, and yes, frivolous, Sister Act is a musical remake of the famously successful 1992 hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The historic For…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2025
USING ART TO COMBAT GUN VIOLENCE GUAC at Woolly Mammoth is not traditional theater"it's a powerful act of performance art that explores with life and tragic loss in the wake of a mass school…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2025
DOWNSTATE CHALLENGES MOST BASIC ASSUMPTIONS Bruce Norris's regional premiere of Downstate, currently at Studio Theatre, brings us up close into the forbidden world of pedophiles and shocking…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2024
A TRIUMPHANT SAGA OF A VIENNESE FAMILY Shakespeare Theatre Company, in association with Huntington in Boston, is presenting at Harman Hall an epic, haunting play about loss and survival. Gra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2024
A POIGNANT LOOK AT FEMALE FRIENDSHIP What are the makings of female friendships? What holds them together and what causes them to shift off course? These are just two of the philosophical qu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2024
THE GOOD-NATURED BUFFOONERY IN FORUM IS THE TONIC FOR WHAT AILS YOU A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, currently at Signature Theater, is knee-slapping farcical fun à la vaud…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2024
SEEN THROUGH A LATINO CONTEXT, THE OTHER AMERICANS IS A UNIVERSAL GLIMPSE INTO FAMLY TRAUMA The world premiere of John Leguizamo's newest endeavor, The Other Americans, directed by Ruben San…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2024
BEMUSING, DISAPPOINTING, SUPERFICIAL, AND FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS After all the hype about Matthew Broderick starring in the title role of Babbitt, presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company at…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
AN EXCERCISE IN PURPOSEFUL FUTILITY Welcome to the world of underserved K-12 education where punitive actions abound with no end in sight. In Exception to the Rule, playwright Dave Harris (T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2024
WEAVING TOGETHER THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE JaJa's African Hair Braiding " beginning a regional tour after Broadway success and Arena Stage's season starter " is a peek into the immigrant expe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2024
UNIVERSAL, YES, BUT ALSO ESOTERIC Who's to say what constitutes a monumental event " something as vast as a meteor shower versus the provincial act of trying to go home again? This is the un…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2024
A TRIP THROUGH MICHAEL JACKSON'S TRIPPY LIFE For those who never had the chance to see Michael Jackson perform live, MJÂ " the current smash-hit Broadway jukebox musical now on tour at The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2024
THE CAMPY ABBA FEST IS BACK Still an over-the-top, campy, family-friendly entertainment, the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Mamma Mia!, currently at The Kennedy Center Opera House, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2024
A FANTASIZED LOOK INTO BLACKNESS IN AMERICA The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe, currently at The Studio Theatre, is a wild, satirical glance into African-American experiences, dating back…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2024
THE KITE RUNNER FLIES HIGH AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Because the best-selling novel The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is so significant and well-revered, as is the 2007 movie screenpl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:25PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2024
THE MINDLESS SILLINESS WE DIDN'T KNOW WE NEEDED Broadway Center Stage's production of Bye Bye Birdie, the 1960 musical comedy smash currently at The Kennedy Center, is delightfully corny, sc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2024
HAIR EXPLODES WITH ECSTACY AT SIGNATURE The 1967 "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, currently at The Signature Theatre through July 7 and directed by Matthew Gardiner, is an explosion…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2024
AN EYE-OPENER Prior to Next to Normal at Round House Theatre a giant, obtrusive woman's eye projected onto the back wall (projections by Nicholas Hussong) stares and blinks out at the aud…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2023
A MYTH, A MESS, AND A MISS For all the hoopla that is Evita, save for the beautifully haunting ballad "Don't Cry for me Argentina," Shakespeare Theatre's version, directed by Sammi Cannold, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2023
SIGNATURE'S BRIDGES FREES VIEWERS TO BE HOPELESS ROMANTICS Given its syrupy and soaring sentimentalism, Robert James Waller's very short 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was amazingl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2023
WATCHING THIS MAY NOT ALWAYS BE FUN, BUT IT SURE FEELS LIKE HOME Fun Home, which opened yesterday at Studio Theatre, will likely touch even the most cynical of hearts. Deep but never sappy, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2023
DAZZLED BY THE STARS UNDER THE STARS The third annual Broadway in the Park, produced by Signature Theater and Wolf Trap, showcased some of the best singing talent of the D.C. area and headli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:10AM[SHARE] 
