Long before he founded Mosaic Theater Company earlier this year, Ari Roth was known for thoughtful, even provocative, theater. At Mosaic he is continuing that mandate, but also presenting in…
Yes, Virginia, there is A Christmas Carol. But that's not what audience members at Silver Spring Stage will be seeing this holiday season. The myriad versions of the Dickens classic"film, pl…
Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss, enjoying its regional premiere at Round House Theatre, proves yet again that a kiss can be much more than a kiss. It may, in fact, be the most-erotic form of lovemak…
Audiences back in 1964, when the play first opened, apparently found Entertaining Mr. Sloane anything but. To put it mildly, they were shocked. Joe Orton's inaugural work for theater is desc…
Looking for inspiration and joy in the holiday season? See Arena Stage's presentation of Akeelah and the Bee by the Children's Theatre Company. There's plenty of humor and some pathos in …
As intriguing as its premise, The Metal Children, a play by Pulitzer Prize nominee (not for this work) Adam Rapp lacks subtlety. If vigilantes wearing pig's masks who terrorize people they d…
From the moment at the beginning of Maytag Virgin that Jack (William Hardy) casts interested"which quickly turn to adoring"eyes on his new neighbor, Lizzy (Gillian Shelly), we can guess what…
Anyone who has stood mesmerized by a painting or sculpture, wondering how such beauty came into the world (or even how one puts a price on it), will appreciate The Guard. The play by Jessica…
The suspense escalates"punctuated by humor and moments of sheer poetry"in Steven Dietz's Private Eyes. Somewhat reminiscent of Harold Pinter's Betrayal and even of David Ives's Venus in F…
The versatile Noel Coward may have been as English as tea and crumpets, but he found inspiration for one of his most-enduring comedies in the freewheeling American household of actress Laure…
Before Eugene O'Neill was a household name, he earned his first money as a playwright – $15 – for a one-act play presented by Vagabond Players. That was the second production of …
It's probably every actor's dream to skip over what could be tedious and repetitive rehearsals and go straight to the performance. On the other hand, it's probably every actor's nightmare…
There's a lot of fine acting in Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age, the current production at Wheaton's Unexpected Stage Company. The staging, by director/co-producing artistic director Chr…
"There's no fool like a new fool," says one of the characters, a simple shepherd who gives new meaning too the term "simple," in Parlor Room Theater’s production of Neil Simon's play F…
A 19th-century farce by Austrian writer Johann Nestroy (Einen Jux will er sich Machen) has sure had a lot of legs. With a change of venue and the beefing up of a minor character, it provided…
For a theater devoted to presenting plays that "start conversations," the choice of The Shipment as the final offering of Forum Theatre's 11th season is appropriate. Make that, right on targ…
When your name is Arthur Miller, as in the Tony and other Award-wining playwright, the bar is set high. After all, he is the author of Death of a Salesman, which many consider among the g…
What does it mean when one spouse asks the other to take out the garbage? It all depends on the couple and the context. That's one of the insights of The Language Archive, a play by Julia Ch…
There's been a definite maturation since ACW Dances' last concert in the fall. The dancers seem even better coordinated and confident; the choreography"sometimes by artistic director Abigail…
Loud applause turned thunderous, accompanied by a long-lasting standing ovation after the opening performance of Man of La Mancha on Monday, March 23 by DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company. The…
Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations was inspired by Ludwig von Beethoven's piano work of the same name, and in one of the play's joys, we get to hear a fair amount of the 50-minute piece. (In the…
Gina Gionfriddo's dramedy about five flawed characters struggling with ideas of feminism and anti-feminism (and lots of liquor) as well as their own personal and interpersonal conflicts has …
Silver Spring Stage has taken on a huge challenge in presenting Orson's Shadow, a play that moves from the heights of humor to the depths of despair and back and centers on world-famous pers…
The proverbial wisdom in theater is that dying is easy; comedy is hard; and parody is tougher still. That hasn't stopped playwright Christopher Durang, master of dark comedy, satire, and abs…
Dance and industrial psychology might not seem to be natural allies. But they blend beautifully in ACW Dances' The Interpersonal Underworld, a two-part modern-dance piece about relationships…