Saturday, 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 03:33PMTango, Cabaret, Love! is not for the faint of heart nor lack of appetite. Conceived, directed by and starring Cecilia De Feo, Laura Quiroga and Lorena Sabogal, the show is a bilingual escapa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe 2014) If by 13 Men — A Cabaret you were expecting a beefy crop of men in tights traipsing in and out of the followspot, that ain’t it, kid. The “it” here:…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:03PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
You know you’re in the presence of a legend when the material doesn’t matter as much as the immaterial. With the world premiere of Cloak and Dagger: Or the Case of the Golden Venus �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMSunday, June 15, 2014
Beau Jest’s playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:56PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
The trio of writers has flattened Stephen King’s gaggle of high school teens into two-dimensional clichés, devoid of any adolescent intensity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:27PMSaturday, May 17, 2014
“If Carole King can do it, I can do it,” Neil Sedaka told an indulgent, golden-oldies crowd at the Music Center at Strathmore on Friday night. And with that, the 75-year-old pop songwrit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
I attended Shout! The Mod Musical braless. TMI? Well, Creative Cauldron invited us to dress like something out of the Sixties-Seventies, so there we were, women in our 50s and 60s, grooving …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10AMSunday, May 4, 2014
For one night only, North Bethesda, MD., was Diva City. Four luminous songbirds swept in to The Music Center at Strathmore on Friday night to lead a largely snowbird audience on a mind-jog d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
If piano men Elton John and Billy Joel got together to have a son, he might look and sound a lot like Ben Folds. Wait. That’s talkin’ ’bout my generation. Still, 47-year-old singer-son…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Ryan Landry has a sharp eye and ear for contemporary foibles, skewering stereotypes and pop culture icons with equal aplomb.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMMonday, March 31, 2014
Venerable plays get made into acclaimed movies (August: Osage County of recent note), and some movies translate successfully to the stage. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that famous amalga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
Do you suppose composer Mark Hollamann and writer Greg Kotis got the loo-dicrous idea for Urinetown while waiting in line for the facilities during intermission at the theater? The campy, sa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01PMSunday, September 29, 2013
Live theater is thrilling. How better, then, to celebrate the remaking of the volunteer-sown Elden Street Players into a major professional troupe than with a remake of a film from thrill ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43AMMonday, September 23, 2013
A Fire in Water, a modern, one-act chamber opera in Silver Finch Arts Collective’s cooker, has all the elements of a masterwork: timeless themes of love and war, a stunning score by Terran…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37AMAs a working journalist who had spent the day sorting through graphic photos of a terror attack on shoppers in Kenya, I was in the right frame of mind to take in a performance of the Tony Aw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMSunday, August 25, 2013
In a week when the world’s buzzing about whether *N SYNC will stage a reunion at the VMAs and news of One Direction’s feature film has fans swooning, the stage is set for the ultimate bo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
When you put horns in a rock band, everything else gets amped waaaay up. We know this because we sat behind the yo-yoing knobs of the sound board at the Chicago concert at Wolf Trap on Mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
How liberating — while driving home from Hello, You Assholes! — to note how many times I referred to other drivers as assholes. We all do it, but few confess. Look out, here come…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Three good reasons to see How to Have It All: The Musical. 1. Freshly baked cookies. A nurturing, maternal figure will even warn you away from the chocolate chip if you have a peanut aller…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Imagine a world in which more women composed operas. Since Francesa Caccini unveiled what is considered the first opera by a female composer in 1625 (performed in Florence to celebrate the v…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMMonday, June 24, 2013
“Shakespeare does not need your help,” barks Franz, the jaded, tyrannical director character in WSC Avant Bard’s world premiere of Caesar and Dada. The irony is that repackaging the ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PM 
