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Lights Rise on Grace is a play that has a lot to say about race, sexuality and secrecy, but says it sparingly. Chad Beckim’s play depicts three characters who reveal a lot to the audience …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53AM“It’s been a big year for me.” That was quite an understatement coming from Scott Greer. The veteran Philadelphia actor had just won his fifth Barrymore Award, named Outstanding Le…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26AMBill Cain’s Equivocation is a good concept gone astray. Its alternative history about William Shakespeare getting caught up in deadly royal court intrigue is exceedingly clever and alm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AMBullets Over Broadway is one of Woody Allen’s funniest, most accessible movies. But the stage musical adaptation, using a script by Allen himself, is an awkward mishmash of comedy and musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMIs A Comedy of Tenors, Ken Ludwig’s newest comedy, a worthy successor to Lend Me a Tenor, his knockabout farce that opened on Broadway in 1989 and has been produced in hundreds of theatres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMTechnically speaking, Rizzo isn’t a great play. Bruce Graham’s new play about the life of the late Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo doesn’t dig deeply enough into what made its ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37PMNobody can seethe like Jenna Kuerzi. As Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Kuerzi reacts to every slight from her unwelcome suitor Petruchio with rage. Her nostrils flare. Her eyes bulge.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMDisgraced is a play that pushes people’s buttons. Almost every character says something that is guaranteed to outrage somebody. But when you push too many buttons, a show can feel mechanic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02AMIf there’s one thing the Irish are good at, it’s keeping – and creating, and gossiping about – secrets. (My Irish grandmother practically turned it into an art form.) In Hooked!, pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMAt the beginning of Shipwrecked!, Greg Wood bounds onto the stage of the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio and greets the audience: “Hello,” he says, “and welcome to this t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMWatching Metamorphoses is a sensory experience. Mary Zimmerman’s play retells ancient myths with intelligence and invention, and that alone makes it memorable. But what you’ll remember m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMOh, the weather outside is frightful. It’s the middle of the night on an isolated Kansas highway, somewhere between Kansas City and Topeka, and a massive winter snowstorm has stranded a gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34PMEurydice, Sarah Ruhl’s fresh take on a classic Greek myth, is irreverent and deadly serious at the same time. It’s profound… and at times it’s also profoundly silly. And its willingn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMYou can cut the air – and the tension – with a knife in Princeton these days. The McCarter Theatre’s new production of Baby Doll, adapted from Tennessee Williams’ 1956 screenplay (an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMPhilip Barry’s 1939 play The Philadelphia Story has long been rightly celebrated as a model of wit and sophistication. It inspired a classic movie version the following year and then, in 1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMWhat’s art? The characters in Andy: A Popera, a new piece based on the life of the pop art pioneer Andy Warhol, get asked that question many times, and they have many answers. “An opport…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PMAlias Ellis Mackenzie tells the story of Barry Seal, who smuggled drugs into the United States for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s while simultaneously working as an informant for the U…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09AMOnce upon a time, The Captive was hot stuff. Édouard Bourdet’s play caused a sensation in Paris in 1926, and again later that year on Broadway. But the Broadway run was cut short when aut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:12PMUnderground Railroad Game is a show that doesn’t care who it shocks. It’s filled with racial and sexual stereotypes, raunchy language, and offensive images, not to mention full frontal n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMMary Martello is a master thief. Anyone who’s seen her play supporting roles in shows as diverse as Memphis, 9 to 5, and Candide knows that this five-time Barrymore winner is an expert at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMWhodunit? Who killed the famous author? Was it his wife, his mistress, or his psychiatrist? Maybe it was the author’s friends Murray and Barb, the ones who introduce themselves as “the f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42AMThis Midsummer Night's Dream fits in with Mauckingbird's mission to produce gay-themed theater. Some of the major characters have had their genders switched and, for this comedy of romantic …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMMichael Hollinger's Ghost-Writer is a lovely and stirring drama about the written word and the emotions it can provoke.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM
