I was intrigued by Museum 2040, an alternate future immersive production that combines a museum exhibit and a theatricalized dedication ceremony, from the moment I interviewed its playwright…
The Shark, my desultory 3 year old, was hopping from place to place in Glen Echo Park in anticipation of seeing The Snowy Day and Other Stories, a musical adaptation of one of the most popul…
As my toddler stuffed fistfuls of frosting in her mouth, I couldn't help think of Zomo the Rabbit, the deliciously fun Theater for Young Audiences play that we saw earlier. Not just because …
It was a type of morning that many parents of small children are familiar with: a morning full of questions. The Shark (my ever-moving, ever-hunting, and ever-curious almost-3 year old) was …
The best and worst part of toddlers is their Big Feelings. Just the morning of me writing this piece, my toddler (who we call The Shark) has displayed righteous indignation at not being allo…
There's a pall of delicious irony lingering over Constellation's Little Shop of Horrors, the now-classic musical tale of a weirdo named Seymour from Skid Row who finds an extra-terrestrial p…
You may not recognize the name Eric Carle, but you'll probably recognize his distinctive collage art. He hand paints sheet after sheet of tissue paper with bold acrylics. He cuts them in sim…
I'll admit, I was a bit terrified to attend Elephant and Piggie's "We are in a Play!" Mostly because my toddler, lovingly called the Shark, had lived up to her animal Patronus and didn't tak…
The best theater reveals moments of high emotion built on the intersection of intense preparation and the chaos of live performance. By that measure, the best theater experience in DC is Taf…
"It's the plot that you knew/ with a small twist or two/ but the changes we made were slight," croons Major Attaway as the Genie in the finale of Aladdin national tour, now at the Kennedy Ce…
Two or three weeks ago, my daughter was finally patient enough to get all the way through Dr. Seuss's book, The Cat in the Hat. A feat of patience and wit, to be sure, for someone who is two…
Truth be told, I've never been to Iceland. But I somehow doubt that Steve Yockey and Rorschach Theatre's horror-strewn and homo-centric vignettes in the rolling world premiere ReykjavÃk a…
How to Catch A Star adaptor, director, and tech wizard Jared Mezzocchi leads this debut that serves up truly jaw-dropping visuals for a full hour of exploratory theater, guaranteed to ama…
Washington DC has quite a rich tradition in political satire, from local legends The Capitol Steps to one-off play commissions at local theaters like Signature to niche private functions onl…
After napping on a long drive to Glen Echo Park on a rainy day, it was time to wake up the Shark. The Shark is my 20 month old daughter who, like her namesake, seems to need constant movemen…
Walking into Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) I knew, as you may, that there was a best-selling Spanish language movie of its time, and an equally popular novel/cookboo…
Iris is an astronaut. She travels through space. Iris is also a chrononaut. She travels through time. And that's where her troubles begin as the protagonist of The Interstellar Ghost Hour…
Theater programming usually doesn't get any more conservative than Gilbert & Sullivan, late 19th century purveyors of light opera and bad puns. But Chicago's avant-garde company The Hypo…
50 Ways…, a new Fringe show from the mind of Mahayana Landowne, promises to fit 50 scenes into just 70 minutes of runtime. How can he do that? When you see it, the answer will become hilar…
Coronado is a play in disguise. If you read the blurbs or see the black and white promo photo of a couple of White dudes at a bar table with cigarettes hanging from their mouths, you might t…
Titus Andronicus is well-known as several things: as Shakespeare's first true tragedy, as a foreshadow of the brutal Jacobean revenge dramas that would dominate the first quarter of the 17th…
Theater critics, at least good ones, should be grizzled theatergoing veterans and yet be centered and sensitive enough to relive the experience of the newcomer every time they see a show. To…
There are few topics more horrifying and less funny than one's parents' sexuality. But Qui Nguyen, one of the hottest American playwrights of the moment, has embraced the embarrassment of pa…
If you're looking for the cutting edge of DC theater, look for the groups who are interrogating the boundaries of what it means to even be a theater. From Forum's actor-less The State to TBD…
Being stuck in the world of 410[GONE] might seem like Hell for most people. After all, it is a trippy video game afterlife full of maddening puzzles based on Dance Dance Revolution and manic…