Thursday, July 14, 2016
The show, from Upright Citizens Brigade performers, draws on a volunteer's life story.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
"The Wedding Gift" and "The Second Girl" have bright futures on the national scene.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
A Chicago theater company brings two revamped Gilbert and Sullivan classics to Olney.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
'Moxie,' at Round House, has a sly modern perspective and alludes to the passing of time.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
The Keegan Theatre's production is overall an effective showcase for a hugely affecting story.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Piece by Mindy Kaling, Brenda Withers purports to depict early relationship between the actors.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Poetic play reimagines the Oedipus myth as a contemporary love triangle in Texas.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:31PM[SHARE]Actor/director Toby Mulford, as Harpagon, and Molière's 1668 comedy are a perfect match.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Spooky Action Theater's Interactive theatrical experience is a twist on familiar video game.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:57PM[SHARE]Subtlety is not exactly the strong suit of the intermittently comic drama 'Bakersfield Mist' at Olney Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Playwright Michael Milligan chose iambic pentameter for his myth-based drama.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:51PM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
At the Lansburgh, a play about the writer probes theological issues but lacks visual variety.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
A sense of mystery is at the heart of Rorschach Theatre's production of "The Electric Baby."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
At the Folger, Reduced Shakespeare Company gleefully tackles the Bard's "first" play.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Troupe stages the surreal "To Have Done With the Judgement of God" at D.C. Arts Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Solo piece "One Word More" at Mead Theatre Lab also delves into questions of guilt.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Reality often swings to absurdism as a woman seeks the return of her kidnapped son.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
THEATER REVIEW | "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord"
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Musical based on the Green Day album follows three friends in post-9/11 America.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The young adults in the rock musical "American Idiot" may suffer from alienation and malaise, but they apparently don't have a problem with vertigo. In Keegan Theatre's pleasant if rather di…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
At one point in the intense and memorable "1984" by the British ensemble Headlong, a squall of paper swirls through the air. A wary freethinker named Winston, having found a momentary refuge…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2016
It is the rare police interrogation chamber that doubles as a shadow-puppetry stage. It's a rarer one still that also appears to be located inside a security-directorate meeting hall. But a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
Poetry editors around the world would turn green with envy if they knew about the current multimedia performance by Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. In an era that gives short sh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The eponymous heroine of the early-17th-century play "The Maid's Tragedy" could teach Ophelia a thing or two about rejection. Like Hamlet's ex, Aspatia of Rhodes sees her relationship with a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Joviality and waggishness may not be traits you immediately associate with the Stalinist secret police. But then you probably haven't met Vladimir, the NKVD operative in John Hodge's play "C…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
A mortal enemy sure comes in handy. That's one takeaway from "Señorita y Madame: The Secret War of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein," an informative, fitfully comic, double-barreled …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:04PM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
"It's pretty clear that there's a love affair between audiences and 'Revelations,' " choreographer Alvin Ailey wrote in his autobiography, speaking of the work that would become the s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
His canvases may still be selling for a relative pittance, but the Pablo Picasso who shows up at a Parisian bar in 1904 is making a killing on personality. As zestily portrayed by Matthew J.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PM[SHARE]The shadow-puppet fairies in WSC Avant Bard's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are a striking lot. Oberon is a muscular figure with an angry thicket of hair. Titania's attendant Cobweb dangles on…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Partway through dramatist Will Eno's quirky, philosophical and nearly plot-free "Middletown," an eccentric couple who have opted to tour a run-of-the-mill small American community explain th…
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