The "seafaring life" has taken many forms over time: fearless explorers, bloodthirsty pirates, hopeful pilgrims, grizzled Hemingway-esque mariners, and modern sailors endlessly plying vast s…
Understanding loss can be a tricky business for children, and especially so for those with disabilities. The Kennedy Center's poignant production of Mockingbird explores an autistic girl's e…
Can children ever escape the sins of their fathers and mothers? In their electric, incisive premiere of playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings' Not Enuf Lifetimes, The Welders wade into the cyc…
Have you ever watched an Apple, IBM, or Google commercial and wondered "Why couldn’t I do that?” dog & pony DC asks would-be innovators to flex their mental muscles in Toast,…
Between consumption, poison, madness, exposure, stabbing, and suffocation, the divas of classic opera never really had much of a chance. Carmen, Mimi, Desdemona, and others finally get the c…
"Full of sound and fury, signifying [a crazy night of theater]". That's the quick summary of Taffety Punk Theatre Company's world premiere of Enter Ophelia, distracted, Kimberly Gilbert's ka…
Sometimes, we could all use a little love and understanding " even, perhaps, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ. In Forum Theatre’s crackling production of The Last Days of Judas Iscari…
The words "puppet show" and "groundbreaking" don’t often share the same sentence, but DC’s Pointless Theatre Group is out to change that, one performance at a time. Pointless is …
Are children doomed to repeat the sins of their parents, or can they escape the cycle of negativity and start fresh? Theater J's workshop presentation of Motti Lerner's powerful play The Adm…
The newly-christened Welders playwright collective has burst confidently onto the DC theater landscape with its daring debut of The Carolina Layaway Grail. In a cozy side room of the Atlas P…
Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victors." Nowhere is this more true than with colonial history, where the conquerors’ truth often dominates and the subjugated viewpo…
With midterm elections still months away and the 2016 presidential tilt lurking in the distance, it’s a perfect time to step back and consider the bloodsport that is the American polit…
As the Daily Show and Saturday Night Live have shown repeatedly, the best parodies don’t try to reinvent the wheel; instead, they tweak their source material with minor changes and let…
Painter Chuck Close once bemoaned the wishy-washy state of art history and criticism, lamenting that "There’s nothing that tells you why the painting is great…descriptions of a g…
As a reviewer, it’s nice to occasionally cover a show so good that it makes my job easy. Theater J’s return engagement of Woody Sez is just such a show, brimming with toe-tapping…
"Haven’t we done this enough? Haven’t we grieved enough?" Studio Theatre’s new production Sweet and Sad dares to ask this question about the anniversary of 9/11, examining …
Oscar Wilde remarked in A Woman of No Importance that "After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations." The dysfunctional Apple family in Studio Theatre's intimate Tha…
Appropriate, Woolly Mammoth’s new dark-as-pitch comedy, delivers a theatrical gut-punch of roiling family drama and erupting emotion set against the backdrop of a crumbling southern ma…
Who knew art history could be so riveting, dangerous, and fun? Constellation Theatre Company tackles Naomi Iizuka’s mind-bending play 36 Views in a kaleidoscopic journey through ancien…
Arena Stage's moving Love in Afghanistan follows an unlikely romance that blooms amid the chaos of present-day Afghanistan. An American rapper and Afghan interpreter overcome culture clashes…
American Century Theater’s charming new production of Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn follows the comically mismatched Baker brothers as they deal with mistaken identity, family…
With its dizzying brew of tragedy, comedy, palace intrigue, pastoral tomfoolery, and cameos by a marauding bear and a living statue, The Winter’s Tale often gives the impression th…
In Ari Roth’s Andy and the Shadows, obsessive filmmaker Andy Glickstein doggedly searches for the momentous, globe-spanning history buried beneath his quiet, suburban life. As the c…
Mike Daisey is a rare kind of artist, one who can forsake all theatrical bells and whistles and still captivate an audience via sheer charisma and wry wit. In the Woolly Mammoth premiere…
Venerable DC-area actress Tana Hicken might soon be hanging up her spurs, but not before she graces the District with her wit, grace, and canny realism a final time in Studio Theatre’s…