Monday, September 7, 2015
Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Somebody get Eddie Lounge a cocktail — and maybe a ream of cocktail napkins to wipe his beady, bald head. What’s a guy gotta do to get a drink around here?! The Lord of Loungeolo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Memo to Star Johnson, mastermind of OpenStage’s How to Quit Your Day Job: Quit your day job. It’ll be OK. Johnson’s merry musical comedy — staged bohemian-style in the Eastern Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41AMThursday, July 9, 2015
A critic is not supposed to be part of the show. A critic is not supposed to get up on the stage and “get down,” wiggling her fat belly/butt under the bright lights. But BellyFun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Area performers will be performing a good deed on June 27th to help a theater family in need. On June 1, Kelly Hennessa, a social studies teacher for children with special needs at Centrevil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Who knew metro Washington was also the nation’s nerd capital? A sold-out crowd — many ectomorphs in geeky garb, monk/Jedi robes, foil caps, riotous colors, vintage tour shirts, and even …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
For a good time, call (703) 425-6782. That gets you the Providence Players of Fairfax’s reservations line, and this bedrock company of major-league players never disappoints. The Glass Men…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Fitting that If All the Sky Were Paper — a dramatization of war correspondence lovingly presented by archivist Andrew Carroll — would unfold at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:49PMSunday, May 3, 2015
The Grand Parade is a truly sumptuous feast of imagination, color, emotion and movement; a uniquely dramatic way of interpreting our history as a torrent of events presented without judgment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:05PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
The beauty of David Cromer’s production of Come Back, Little Sheba that by focusing on the play’s intense psychological undercurrents he minimizes its cultural mustiness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11PMSunday, March 29, 2015
Weary of winter, Washingtonians? NextStop Theatre Company has your antidote. Instead of a resurrection-vague Jesus Christ Superstar timed to Easter, this praiseworthy playhouse subbed in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSunday, March 15, 2015
George C. Wolfe’s 1984 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the '90s TV show In Living Color and at other times feels more…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AMSunday, March 8, 2015
This exhilarating Tristan & Yseult shakes us out of our role as passive observers and reminds us of the euphoria and the heartbreak love can bring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:17AMFriday, March 6, 2015
Celeste Oliva’s performance is so raw, we experience every doubt, every fear, and watch her confidence slowly evaporate under pressure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
The King of Second Avenue's one-joke shtick wears out long before the end of this 90-minute musical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:55AMSunday, February 8, 2015
No doubt you’ll recall Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Viola Davis, and Amy Adams in the Hollywood 2008 adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, a Parable — simply titled Doub…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PMSunday, February 1, 2015
Oh, 13. That awkward age. Why anyone would conceive of a musical glorifying puberty’s tender rites and then shine the light on adolescent actors coming to grips with their own self-discove…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:28PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Playwright Ken Ludwig is famous for farce, fevered dialogue, and throwing his characters’ worlds off-kilter. Vienna Theatre Company’s endearing take on 2005’s Be My Baby — which Ludw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The virtuoso approach of Bedlam's Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Zayd Dohrn’s slightly predictable Muckrakers offers some satisfying twists and turns as it moves toward the inevitable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:20PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Playwright Ken Urban doesn’t seem to have a strong point of view about his thirtysomethings-in-a-muddle; neither does he allow them to change or grow.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
While worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:04PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
In classic Revels style, the unexpected mix of talents results in a wonderful mash-up of comic schtick and classical performance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:57PMSunday, November 23, 2014
Horton Foote’s dialogue often dances on the edge of sentimentality, but, because of these performers, moments that might be sappy are instead deeply moving.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMSaturday, November 15, 2014
In this production the aching tension of intractable conflicts -- freedom versus responsibility, money versus morality -- occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMMonday, October 27, 2014
Overheard at intermission of NextStop Theatre Company’s production of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, a guy whispers to his female companion: “I thought it was gonna be a real dog onstage.” Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59AMMonday, October 13, 2014
The fine efforts of the New Rep performers and Jim Petosa’s thoughtful staging can’t solve this musical’s central flaw.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMFriday, August 1, 2014
Shahrazad is the latest in Double Edge’s summer spectacles, and with this piece, director and designer Stacy Klein has found the perfect balance between story and visuals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Local playwright Jack Neary always captures the frisson of nostalgia and resentment familiar to Catholic school graduates of a certain era, teasing gently without ever offending.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:37PMMonday, July 21, 2014
Company One’s production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:27AMMonday, July 14, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) At last. A show that has taken the Capital Fringe Festival 2014 theme to heart: Move Me. Breast in Show, conceived and produced by Eileen Mitchard, is arguably t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33PM 
