Thursday, July 18, 2013
What's with the uptick in new plays about the Salem Witch Trials? This month, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.Va., premiered Liz Duffy Adams's "A Discourse on …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Boys will be boys " and therein lies Verona's misfortune. Such is the subtext in the gripping "Romeo and Juliet" brought to the Capital Fringe Festival by We Happy Few Productions. This prop…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:28PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
The let's-put-on-a-show trope gets an edgy, psychologically sophisticated twist in Jordan Harrison's comedy "Act a Lady," now on view in a plush, spirited production from the Hub Theatre. W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2013
"Our Boys" is a play with pedigree. According to the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, which is giving this amusing if creaky piece a good-humored airing, H.J. Byron's comedy racked up a whoppi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Allusions to showbiz, and to literature, pepper the fare now at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the annual showcase for recently minted plays in Shepherdstown, W.Va. On the festi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2013
Objects have taken on a terrible significance for Becca and Howie Corbett, the married central characters in David Lindsay-Abaire's play "Rabbit Hole." A copy of "The Runaway Bunny" haunts a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
If he has managed to escape the crocodile that was hot on his trail, when last we heard, Neverland's Captain Hook might have a bright future as an entrepreneur. Not only has this endearingly…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Insurgent idealisms clash and echo in "Caesar and Dada," the frolicsome, piquantly brainy new play by Allyson Currin receiving its world premiere from WSC Avant Bard. And it's not just in th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2013
If you put together a garage band with your two best buddies, you would expect your own dad to remember the group's name, right? The trouble-prone sixth-grader Nate Wright certainly expects …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:37PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
There are some for whom glitter-tracking is an occupational hazard. Sadie Hawkins and Buster Britches are two of those people. "Glitter gets all over your house; it gets all over everything,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Splotches of brown mottle metallic girders on the set of "The Full Monty," the latest offering from the Keegan Theatre. The allusion to rust is apt enough: David Yazbek and Terrence McNally'…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:17PM[SHARE]You have to hand it to the characters in "Club de Caballeros (Rotos de Amor)/Gentlemen's Club (Love Torn)": Their romantic lives may be in free fall, but they don't sit around moping. Instea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
They may have the oldest bromance in recorded history, and you can watch them spar with a supernatural bull in Constellation Theatre Company's bold and colorful, if somewhat over-solemn, "Gi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
You have to maneuver artfully when you embark on a love affair. That truth sashays into the open with dashing verve and cynicism in the Studio 2ndStage production of "2-2 Tango," a short pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
It can be disconcerting to have a sense of justice. No one knows this better than Lucy, the heroine of the children's play "The Magic Finger," now in a world-premiere run at Imagination Stag…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Choreographer Luis Salgado knows how Roberto Clemente felt about baseball. This fact reveals itself about 15 minutes into "DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story," the reverent, clunky bio-musical…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
You can say this for the lovers and servants in "The Lady Becomes Him," Faction of Fools Theatre Company's exhaustingly antic farce: They are one up on Frodo Baggins. That determined hobbit …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Brave, ingenious James Henry Trotter " of "James and the Giant Peach" fame " is larking it up with Mick Jagger, Diana Rigg and the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Okay, that is not …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Oxygen is a substance that feeds fire, so it seems apt that "Oxygen," Taffety Punk Theatre Company's theatrical concept album, should boast an intensity that smolders. For 70 relentless minu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Cheetos-eating Golem is not the quirkiest character in "A Man, His Wife, and His Hat," the audaciously kooky play by Lauren Yee: That honor goes to the exuberantly self-satisfied talking…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The metronome is getting its moment in the spotlight, and that's not such a good thing for Happenstance Theater, the company that put it there. In "Vanitas," the latest original work from t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:26PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
A peach that swells to the size of a house. Hunters who grow wings and fly, like the ducks they've been shooting. A teacher who flings small children out of the window. Sounds like delirium?…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
The average whoosh doesn't get much respect. The whooshing sound of a washing machine in motion " that's banal. A just-cleaned dish towel whooshing onto the floor " that's annoying. And who …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:17PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
No, Glen Echo Park has not turned achromatic. If it seems that way, it's because of the exuberant colors in "Three Little Birds," the children's reggae musical in a world premiere run at Adv…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
If Travel + Leisure magazine were to run a feature on the most gruesome lodgings in America, the hotel room in Martin McDonagh's "A Behanding in Spokane" would surely top the list. Maybe not…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
Death. Cameras. The misdeeds of a shadowy Norwegian shipping magnate. These areas of interest unite three damaged characters in the intriguingly enigmatic production "Bird in Magic Rain with…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Would that all houseguests provided as much entertainment value as Tomas, a character in Mexican playwright Antonio Serrano's "Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears)." As amusingly c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
The title of Bill Cain's drama, "9 Circles," alludes to the concentric regions of torment described in Dante's "Inferno." But given the emotional workout actor Julian Elijah Martinez appears…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
An exhilarating sequence opens "The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century)," the flawed, if sometimes brilliant, ensemble-created work by the Massachusetts-based Double Edge Theatre. Now in a wo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The characters in John Patrick Shanley's "Italian American Reconciliation" appreciate the minestrone at their local diner. Watching them relish their soup in the version of the play now at N…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:41PM[SHARE] 
