Just when you thought it was safe to turn on that tablet, along comes another robot with a built-in diabolical scheme to destroy your life. We now have a Russian tycoon, Dmitri Itskov, w…
If you are looking for an exhilarating, raucous, hilarious, roller-coaster ride of a show, a genuine gem from start to finish, you must drop whatever you're doing and run to see Chisa Hutchi…
There will be many plays on the Iraq war and its aftermath, but few (if any) have the compassion and the seasoned eye for dialogue of Charles Fuller's One Night. A tightly wound, poignan…
Ah, June in Washington"school's over, the lilies are in bloom, you pluck the first mulberries off the tree, and then it's time for Music Hall. This marks the 50th year that the British P…
It's one of the oldest stories from Broadway lore:Â a husband-wife team is in a hit comedy, and the big punchline of the night comes when the husband says to the wife, "Gimme a cup of cof…
An earnest prayer for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, beautifully sung. Then sudden darkness. Bombs. Guns. More darkness. Lights up on an old woman, Golda Meir, the former Prime Min…
Anyone who has studied law knows about the dreaded Moot Court"an exercise in public humiliation where young law students try to argue fictional cases while they are constantly interrupted by…
It is pleasure enough to return to the plays of August Wilson, with their breezy informality and their uncanny ability to find the poetry and depth that lurks under the surface of everyday l…
With the passing of Nelson Mandela, the universally loved leader of post-Apartheid South Africa, the attention of that nation has returned to the difficult business building civil society.Â…
It's hard to forget the sensation Synetic Theater created when they first premiered their wordless Shakespeare cycle 12 years ago. Hamlet … The Rest is Silence stands as their signatur…
Not only does the Washington area have a wealth of exciting new theatre companies, but they are collaborating in wonderful ways. And what's fun is that it's not just regular adult audien…
From the moment the lights go up on that ramshackle Pittsburgh boarding house, and Louise (Brenda D. Parker) sings with her sweet voice, you know you are in a special place"August Wilson ter…
The audience assembled in the 16th Street church basement last Saturday, for Spooky Action's latest opening, were witnesses to a truly amazing moment:Â the introduction of a great, neglec…
Judy Collins came with fellow New York singer-songwriter Kenny White to the Birchmere in Alexandria the other night. Â Kenny took I-95 like most mortals, but Judy seemed to float in on a v…
The past few years have seen a wealth of new theatre companies in the Washington area, bringing brand-new approaches"new to us, at least. It's especially heartening to see the growth of …
The next time you're at the National Gallery be sure to visit the old Western Wing"in Gallery 10 you'll find a masterpiece, the "Adoration of the Shepherds" " biblical in theme, Italian in s…
There seems to be a vogue for Oscar Wilde these days, and it's exciting to see companies that want to give audiences new, innovative stagings of the Victorian aesthete's work. Those who …
You know you're in for a rare treat when you go to the box office to pick up your ticket, and the staff tells you that the theatre's original seating plan has been completely changed; in the…
Those creepy Irish are back"you know the ones who just stare into the telly or listen to the faded static signal off an antique radio, hunched in their chairs, muttering, rocking away into o…
Ever since their international break-out hits of the late 80s, "Bamboleo" and Djobi Djoba," the Gipsy Kings have remained prominent on the music scene, and a fixture at summer festivals the …
As a complement to their performances of Hamlet, the Bard's greatest tragedy, the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory offers arguably his greatest comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, to round out t…
One of the joys of seeing Shakespeare in the open air is that it can remove all the nonsense that has plagued the Bard for decades. Gone is the hyper-subtlety of the Stanislavski "Method…
If you want to get your hands on a major center of innovation in Washington theatre, a production that draws from some of the best talent our area has to offer and is relentless in its press…
For all our adulation of the Beatles it's easy to forget that they stood on the shoulders of a scrawny, be-spectacled bean-pole of a dude from Lubbock, Texas by the name of Buddy Holly. …
Rounding out its 2012-2013 season, Silver Spring Stage has turned to prize-winning playwright Michael Hollinger and his Cold War romantic farce Red Herring.  Set in 1952, the year Dwig…