Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Lights Rise on Grace is a play that has a lot to say about race, sexuality and secrecy, but says it sparingly. Chad Beckim’s play depicts three characters who reveal a lot to the audience …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
“It’s been a big year for me.” That was quite an understatement coming from Scott Greer. The veteran Philadelphia actor had just won his fifth Barrymore Award, named Outstanding Le…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Bill Cain’s Equivocation is a good concept gone astray. Its alternative history about William Shakespeare getting caught up in deadly royal court intrigue is exceedingly clever and alm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Bullets Over Broadway is one of Woody Allen’s funniest, most accessible movies. But the stage musical adaptation, using a script by Allen himself, is an awkward mishmash of comedy and musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMMonday, October 26, 2015
Is A Comedy of Tenors, Ken Ludwig’s newest comedy, a worthy successor to Lend Me a Tenor, his knockabout farce that opened on Broadway in 1989 and has been produced in hundreds of theatres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Technically speaking, Rizzo isn’t a great play. Bruce Graham’s new play about the life of the late Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo doesn’t dig deeply enough into what made its ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Nobody can seethe like Jenna Kuerzi. As Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Kuerzi reacts to every slight from her unwelcome suitor Petruchio with rage. Her nostrils flare. Her eyes bulge.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Disgraced is a play that pushes people’s buttons. Almost every character says something that is guaranteed to outrage somebody. But when you push too many buttons, a show can feel mechanic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02AMThursday, October 15, 2015
If there’s one thing the Irish are good at, it’s keeping – and creating, and gossiping about – secrets. (My Irish grandmother practically turned it into an art form.) In Hooked!, pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
At the beginning of Shipwrecked!, Greg Wood bounds onto the stage of the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio and greets the audience: “Hello,” he says, “and welcome to this t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMSunday, October 11, 2015
Watching Metamorphoses is a sensory experience. Mary Zimmerman’s play retells ancient myths with intelligence and invention, and that alone makes it memorable. But what you’ll remember m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Oh, the weather outside is frightful. It’s the middle of the night on an isolated Kansas highway, somewhere between Kansas City and Topeka, and a massive winter snowstorm has stranded a gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl’s fresh take on a classic Greek myth, is irreverent and deadly serious at the same time. It’s profound… and at times it’s also profoundly silly. And its willingn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMMonday, September 21, 2015
You can cut the air – and the tension – with a knife in Princeton these days. The McCarter Theatre’s new production of Baby Doll, adapted from Tennessee Williams’ 1956 screenplay (an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Philip Barry’s 1939 play The Philadelphia Story has long been rightly celebrated as a model of wit and sophistication. It inspired a classic movie version the following year and then, in 1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMThursday, September 17, 2015
What’s art? The characters in Andy: A Popera, a new piece based on the life of the pop art pioneer Andy Warhol, get asked that question many times, and they have many answers. “An opport…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Alias Ellis Mackenzie tells the story of Barry Seal, who smuggled drugs into the United States for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s while simultaneously working as an informant for the U…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09AMThursday, September 10, 2015
Once upon a time, The Captive was hot stuff. Édouard Bourdet’s play caused a sensation in Paris in 1926, and again later that year on Broadway. But the Broadway run was cut short when aut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:12PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Underground Railroad Game is a show that doesn’t care who it shocks. It’s filled with racial and sexual stereotypes, raunchy language, and offensive images, not to mention full frontal n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMMonday, September 7, 2015
Mary Martello is a master thief. Anyone who’s seen her play supporting roles in shows as diverse as Memphis, 9 to 5, and Candide knows that this five-time Barrymore winner is an expert at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Whodunit? Who killed the famous author? Was it his wife, his mistress, or his psychiatrist? Maybe it was the author’s friends Murray and Barb, the ones who introduce themselves as “the f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42AMMonday, May 25, 2015
This Midsummer Night's Dream fits in with Mauckingbird's mission to produce gay-themed theater. Some of the major characters have had their genders switched and, for this comedy of romantic …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMMichael Hollinger's Ghost-Writer is a lovely and stirring drama about the written word and the emotions it can provoke.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM 
