Saturday, August 7, 2021
The original and timely “Sketches!” is a well-built comedy machine that
will have you laughing uproariously into your mask.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 01:06PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
The Magnetic Theatre resumes live, indoor performances with this modern
telling of the Persephone myth.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 11:58AMThursday, March 4, 2021
After a long pandemic winter, the Magnetic’s outdoor theater show,
“something i cared about,” feels authentic and radical.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 01:11PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
TheSharedScreen’s scorching new Zoom production of Tape — the 1999 play turned 2001 indie film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman — is a successful experiment in embracing the presen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMMonday, February 1, 2021
Ryan J. Haddad’s incredible one-person show, Hi, Are You Single?, is the first time any performer has set foot on the Woolly Mammoth stage since March 2020. This gem of a show, presented b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20AMSunday, January 24, 2021
This one-woman show about a nun during a worldwide pandemic really deserves
your full attention. It definitely touches a nerve.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 04:13PMMusical duo Cookie Tongue combine their songs with a variety of mediums,
and if you abandon yourself to the chaos, it’s really quite beautiful.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 12:34PMA fascinating retelling of the last witch burning in Ireland takes on
additional meaning in the COVID era..
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 12:20PMSaturday, January 23, 2021
Brian Feldman’s immersive solo Zoom performance fully embraces the digital
medium.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 05:05PMFriday, January 22, 2021
The musical adaptation of the 1982 B-movie is creative, engaging, weird,
and more than a little grotesque.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 02:11PMSunday, October 4, 2020
There were a number of factors that led Solas Nua, the 15-year-old theater company dedicated to presenting contemporary Irish arts, to abandon their previous project, Being Here, and devise …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PMMonday, June 1, 2020
Siobhan O’Loughlin is the artist who, thus far, has come closest to
creating an intimate virtual theatrical experience.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 05:07PMSaturday, May 23, 2020
Siobhan O’Loughlin is no stranger to unconventional performing arts spaces. For the past few years, her theaters have been neither proscenium nor black box. Instead, the venue for her inte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMMonday, May 18, 2020
Note: Your critic apologizes for his tardy publication of this ongoing Homebound series. Being homebound himself, he fell into a deep comatose state after consuming every piece of food in hi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46AMSunday, May 3, 2020
Borders, a play by Nimrod Danishman, tells the story of two young men—Boaz (Eli Schoenfeld), an Israeli, and George (Adrian Rifat), who is Lebanese—who meet on Grindr and fall in love de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMSaturday, February 15, 2020
Local playwright Peter Lundblad’s world premiere is like hanging out with a
smart friend who makes you feel a little smarter, too.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 01:00PMSunday, January 26, 2020
With Dinner Bell, Taproot taps into the duality of the South: honey-sweet
hospitality coupled with hypocrisy. Plus: Visits to Centrifuge and
Monsters Under the Bed.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 12:29PMMonday, December 9, 2019
The beloved, annual vaudeville-style holiday sketch show comes to a
glorious end after a 10-year run.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 05:11PMFriday, December 6, 2019
The English/Hebrew romantic comedy is a satisfying little stocking stuffer.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 04:35PMSunday, April 23, 2017
RANDY BAKER, Playwright Michael: Introduce yourself, Rorschach, and the play Forgotten Kingdoms in under 140 characters. Go! No, just kidding…just tell us something about yourself and abou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMSunday, April 9, 2017
This review comes after I saw the final performance of Venus Theatre’s remarkable, inspiring, supremely artistic vision: Selections From: The Methuen Drama Books of Suffrage Plays. But in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:06PMFriday, March 10, 2017
Intelligence, the new play at Arena Stage about the Valerie Plame CIA scandal, comes at a very timely moment in politics. As Donald Trump appears increasingly clownish, the presidency of Geo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMSunday, February 26, 2017
At first consideration, there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly Chekhovian about Mario, the iconic red capped plumber whose mustachioed visage has been imprinted on the mind of ever…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMMonday, February 6, 2017
There is so much than can be talked about when it comes to Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2000 riff on The Scarlet Letter, the half-jokingly entitled Fucking A. There is the unsettling setting, the sur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43AMFriday, January 27, 2017
A sampling of the audio from the packed house should serve as ample description for Ford’s Theatre’s stunning new production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: raucou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMFriday, December 16, 2016
The season of giving? Joy to the world, peace on earth, and goodwill towards men? By the time the first snowflake actually falls, the holiday schmaltz can be as cloying as the Macy’s fragr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheaterArts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their ex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Act fast: Director Ivo van Hove’s visionary production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, which won plaudits on both Broadway and the West End since it opened in 2014, is only pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMSunday, November 13, 2016
The DC premiere of Donal O’Kelly’s Little Thing, Big Thing, playing now at Solas Nua performing at Flashpoint Mead Theatre Gallery, is an impressively entertaining dark Irish comedy. A c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21PMMonday, October 31, 2016
The hypnotic new production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at NextStop Theatre Company is more like a painting or a poem than a movie or a book. It’s a fantastical canvas of broad brushstrokes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
The Trump Card, an original solo performance by monologist extraordinaire Mike Daisey, is a searing punch in the gut to rival any leaked Access Hollywood tape. The current production, which …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AM 
