Impromptu belly laughs in WIT’s ‘Stumped’ and ‘Fraudway! Presents’
Washington Improv Theater's fall series at Studio skewers local elections and big musicals — and hilarity is had by all. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Washington Improv Theater's fall series at Studio skewers local elections and big musicals — and hilarity is had by all. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The director of Folger Theatre’s must-see ‘Measure for Measure’ explains the racial and sexual impact of setting the play in the segregated 1950s. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Steve Yockey’s dating horror story about a butch-femme ‘Odd Couple’ provokes laughs and gasps. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
If you’ve never seen the DC-based, globally renowned dance company, now is your chance. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Surprisingly and delightfully funny, Kelsey Mesa’s gripping new play tells the true story of teenage sisters who killed Nazis in World War II. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The script functions like a loopy lineup for an off-the-wall variety show. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Rex Daugherty’s personal musical narrative brings to mind the grit and conviction of Bruce Springsteen. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The playwright takes us back to her teenage angst in the early aughts, and her music-cued storytelling cuts deep. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The musical as a whole " a lavishly produced antiauthoritarian fantasia " is a phenomenal sound machine with music by Michael Pemberton, lyrics by Michael and Andrea Pemberton, music directi…
John Wilkes Booth, the B-list actor and Confederacy fanboy who shot President Lincoln, is merely one of nine hit people featured in Sondheim's musical Assassins. The limelight-hog would be p…
Playwright Kelsey Mesa shrewdly makes hysteria the centerpiece of her satiric dark comedy, and the show's originality and substance make it a must-see. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The storytelling is complex and gripping " a tragedy wrapped in a fable and a memory play set in a war zone. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
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The performance is stunning sonically, scenically, and choreographically " haunting in its grace, alarming in its force and power. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The virtuoso circus acts are as breathtaking as ever, but here they remind us that trust, cooperation, and support are crucial to coexistence. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
In a rip-roaring co-production with Olney Theatre Center, James Graham's astute play is the origin story of sensationalism and sleaze as news. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
The physicality of these dancers' freedom in the midst of myriad data offers a tech-surfeited viewer vicarious liberation. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
As a 'proof of concept' production of a solidly laugh-out-loud script, this promising comedy is very worth catching. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
A gender-and-ethnicity affirmation ceremony in the form of a music-poetry-and-sketch revue with elements of a religious service. Which is a lot.
Audition anxiety and performance insecurity take centerstage as two friends seek through the art of acting a sense of worth.
The image of a brainy don interrogating the universe to the music of the spheres was unmistakable.
The show is so moving it suspends us in belief she is still with us.
The comedy's sendup of celebrity culture and this post-truth world is well-timed.
March 12, 2020, was the day the COVID theater shutdown began, including the show I was booked to see that night: Hexagon's 65th annual satire revue. This intrepid all-volunteer organization …
Two bickering nail salon workers decide to grant a client his dying wish.
It's one of the world's greatest musicals and essential to see.
Women's exasperation with men has never been mined for the stage more hilariously and achingly.
Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.
A fabulist hodgepodge of fresh fairytales with diverse new characters, the show is a riff on one-way romances.
At the heart of this beautiful play is a tenderly tentative connection that becomes an improbable love story.
The socially conscious company surprises with a sweet intergenerational fairytale, 'This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing.'
With talented playwright Doug Robinson, the company pooled their recollections of young love and collaboratively created a confetti-colored comic confection.
The designer and the director of Prologue Theatre's resplendent production share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment.
Jasmine Lee-Jones' provocatively titled 'seven methods of killing kylie jenner' comes to Woolly Mammoth Theatre from sold-out runs in London.
An almost hypnotic humanizing of the melancholic and existentially bleak masterpiece.
The Logos Theatre's spectacular family-friendly stage adaption of the fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis is now playing through March 4 at the Museum of the Bible.
Now playing: 'The Horse and His Boy,' the Logos Theatre's stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis' classic allegory, with music and life-size animal puppets.
Three women gather to seek self-loving in a tsunami of truths.
In 'Just for Us," the comedian sends up antisemitic white supremacists. And he is so sly about it, you will double over in laughter before it hits you.
Playing an addicted actress, she gives a performance you will be intoxicated by.
Bless ji Jaja's engrossing new play prompted by a terminated pregnancy is both timeless and right on time.
The actor talks about his indelible performance and his personal connection to the role.
A report on a staged reading of a new comedy that could become a theater-laughs-at-itself classic alongside 'Noises Off.'
A script studded with high-stakes sexual politics and a riveting production that will give you chills.
The title is long " 'My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship or Death of the Dialogic in the American Theater' " and the play is a lot.
A sendup of gender roles and happiness in the 1950s compared to now.
A year-long residency promises to tempt both theater buffs and improv nuts.
The production showcases Nancy Robinette, Kimberly Gilbert, and Emily Kester in performances worth way more than the price of the ticket.
A comical adult fairy tale with powerful and poetic implications for anyone in love in the face of mortality.
We get to hear how conservative Catholics think, and the experience is mind-blowing.