Can I get a "Gay-Men!" as part of their season of celebrating phenomenal women which included Whitney, Judy, and Cher, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW), rounded out their homage …
DC area theatre is alive and well! That was my initial reaction after watching a performance of The Essential Theatre's Washington DC's premiere of "Dissonance," presented by their Women's W…
Beyond dancing, beyond the hours and hours of practice that go into the artistry of movement, and beyond the insider's glimpse of a cutthroat teenage competition, Margaret McAuliffe's "The H…
Nu Sass Productions' "Open" might best be described as a very personal show that invokes some big themes to depict a rather intimate story. Magic is at the center of this one-woman performan…
The theatrical works of MarÃa Irene Fornés are generally big, bold and unafraid to move far away from the realm of realism toward the absurd, magical and surreal. Part of the genius that…
More intimate theatre spaces often lend themselves to a completely different type of performance experience. Such was the case when I attended Nu Sass Productions' "Finding Neil Patrick Harr…
There is no shortage of plays, movies and television shows centering on the Holocaust. It is an incredibly difficult subject to broach and yet an important one to depict. Shakespeare Theatre…
Sadly, I am not conversant in Spanish, so I was a bit worried that some of GALA Theatre's production of "La ValentÃa" ("Valor") might not resonate or might prove beyond my immediate grasp…
To bring the extraordinarily difficult topic of suicide to the stage is one thing, to do so while at the same time provoking your audience to see some humor, love, and moments of familial co…
Raymond O. Caldwell, Producing Artistic Director of DC's Theater Alliance, makes his Signature Theatre directing debut with the Tony Award-winning rock musical "Passing Strange""a show that …
Asif Majid's play, "The Cassette Shop," is inherently a story about people trying to find their place in a society that is often indifferent to them, if not at times hostile. These character…
In the 90s, the Bosnian War not only ravaged a region, but the toll that it took on the people directly in the path of all of the violence and devastation was perhaps the most tragic element…
If you want to understand how a play is born, how playwrights begin their careers, and how theatres nurture new projects, then you need only check out Anacostia Playhouse's "New Voices, New …
Taking a serious and frightening issue such as climate change and turning it into a thought-provoking, heartwarming, and overall entertaining show is no small feat. Graziella Jackson's new p…
"Jennifer Who is Leaving," a dramedy written and directed by Morgan Gould, hits all the right notes, deftly blending slice-of-life comedy with some deeply sobering realities about what goes …
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" meets a revamping of that fairytale, starring a Rain Cloud who becomes obsessed with a rain-loving human, meets the sexual confusion/closeting …
In Mona Mansour's new play "Unseen," the focus (with all due respect to the title) seems to be on that which is left unsaid"that which people keep hidden from one another so as to smooth ove…
"Angels in America" has been deemed Tony Kushner's magnum opus. It's a broadly panoramic and searing look at a very specific time in American history"the mid 1980s and the beginning of the A…
 Telling historical tales set against a modern mindset, if not milieu, seems to be Perisphere Theater's specialty. Their mission: to produce plays that "examine personal and collective h…
The music of Alanis Morissette, for me, represents a flood of memories wrapped in a nostalgic little pill. She was the definitive soundtrack of my college years, and as such, I was extremely…
There are many stories about people who endure intense sometimes unimaginable suffering by escaping through their art. Art, after all, has the power to bring beauty even in the midst of that…
Last year, I saw Nick Payne's "Constellations." The play twists and turns through time. There are loops; there are rewinds; and there are moments that seemingly emerge out of nowhere. Watchi…
The doubleheader presented by 4615 Theatre Company at The Writer's Center in Bethesda is as much a series of compelling conversations as it is a theatrical production. The plays, "paper back…
Bekah Bruntstetter's play "The Cake" combines a number of timely topics with a confectionary smorgasbord for the eyes, and a highly-charged look at more than one relationship teetering on th…
 The two-day workshop/staged reading event of "Vanishing Girl," with music and lyrics by William Yanesh and book by Hope Villanueva, certainly lived up to the hype. From the endearing st…