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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Review: ‘Sweat’ at Everyman Theatre by Bill Kamberger

Lynn Nottage last year became the first woman to win a second Pulitzer Prize for Drama thanks to her play Sweat, a dramatization of the collapse of the American unskilled labor market circa …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AM
Monday, October 29, 2018

Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ by ArtsCentric by Bill Kamberger

“It’s rather gaudy, but it’s also rather grand,” the title song of La Cage aux Folles asserts of its titular drag club, and the same may be said of the musical that is set there, now…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49PM
Monday, October 8, 2018

Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by StillPointe Theatre by Bill Kamberger

Ryan Haase, the wunderkind behind StillPointe Theatre Initiative, ends the pre-show announcement for his current production of the musical Spring Awakening by urging us to “forget the …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24PM
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Review: ‘Night, Mother at the Strand Theater by Bill Kamberger

In his classic acting guidebook Audition, Michael Shurtleff observed, “A murderer kills just one. A suicide kills the whole world.” Marsha Norman acknowledges as much in her Pulitzer Pri…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PM
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Review: ‘Unlucky Soldiers’ at Theatrical Mining Company by Bill Kamberger

“This we’ll defend” is the motto of the U.S. Army, and the Theatrical Mining Company is going above and beyond to fulfill that commitment in its world premiere production of Robert Gar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Review: ‘Shakespeare’s R & J’ at Vagabond Players by Bill Kamberger

Paula Vogel facetiously called Othello “a play about a handkerchief,” but Shakespeare’s R & J, Joe Calarco’s all-male reconception of the Bard’s most famous…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Review: ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ at Everyman Theatre by Bill Kamberger

True magic happens not when we’re convinced that an illusion is true, but when we realize that it can’t be so yet still refuse to believe it isn’t. Such a spell is cast ove…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PM
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Review: ‘Consent’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Bill Kamberger

As audience members enter the Spotlighters Theatre to attend the Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s world premiere of Glennyce Lynn’s Consent, they pass signs warning against medic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards