Just in time for an escape from too many holiday-spiked eggnog toasts for a better tomorrow to come, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) provides an appealing, sugar-coated farce to indulge au…
Northern Virginia's Alden Theatre, with a long-standing moniker, "small stage, big talent," reopens on Saturday, January 5, 2019, when renovations of the surrounding building complex, the Mc…
"Why must every Jew on stage be a paragon?" A key question asked without bombast by one of the fictional characters created by playwright Paula Vogel for Indecent, her daring stage play c…
Northern Virginia's NextStop Theater has announced a very special cabaret event for the Holiday season. It is called A Kosher Christmas Cabaret. The performance is a follow-on to NextStop…
With the holiday season upon us- whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year's- the performing arts calendar is full of productions that help connect an audience to the larger, div…
Can love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua's upcoming production of How to Keep an A…
Can love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua's upcoming production of How to Keep an A…
It was another time. It was a time of high anxiety. Even private lives were far from private in the treacherous, early 1950's with the likes of Senator Joseph McCarthy and columnist Hedda Ho…
Taunt and remarkable is the production of Sophie Treadwell's expressionistic play Machinal (1928), performed by George Mason University School of Theater and Mason Players. A stu…
With its title, The Accident Bear, and its performance location, a laundromat in Annapolis, I was most intrigued to learn more about local playwright Bob Bartlett's new work. The production …
It has been 100 years since suffrage pickets began in front of the White House for women to have the legal ability to vote in the United States. Over 70 of the suffrage picketers were arrest…
Signature's Billy Elliot the Musical soars with expressive, youthful dance energy and a liberating message of doing what you need to do to be who you want to be. Directed and choreographed b…
Folger's rendering of the seldom-produced King John is more than impressive Shakespearean rhetoric and the checking off on a bucket list of plays to produce. With a deft touch, director Aaro…
Words have lethal consequences in the clear-eyed, unflinching production of The Duchess of Malfi from Brave Spirits Theater. Under the sure-handed direction of Casey Kaleba, The Duchess of M…
There was a significant "first" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) 2018-19 ReDiscovery Reading Series at the Lansburgh Theatre this week. It was a reading of the enthralling, fearless …
Sex, sin, retribution, and vengeance are only starting points for the simmering cauldron that is Brave Spirit's amped production of The Changeling, a four centuries old Jacobean drama by Tho…
The latest data from the Child Welfare League of America indicate that in Maryland in 2015, there were over 51,000 referrals for child abuse and neglect. Of those, nearly 21,000 reports were…
It is mid-April, 1945. The war in Europe is nearly over. However, neither a proper armistice nor formal surrender has been signed by the Allies with the former Nazi regime. It is an unsettle…
As if inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness or even Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Synetic's highly original production of Sleepy Hollow, performed without dialogue, is…
Washington, DC has had a long love affair with Shakespeare. In our midst are institutions like the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library, and many DC-area theater companies that celebrat…
With the addition of original music from composer/lyricist Michael Dansicker, Shakespeare Theatre Company's (STC) The Comedy of Errors is abandonment into farce. Whatever may be outside the …
With notes at the top of his work Heisenberg, playwright Simon Stephens gives undecorated, clear direction to theater companies for his expectations when producing the play: The present day.…
What began as a mundane two-hander focused on stiff argumentative males in an investigative procedural play, develops into something pleasingly complicated, intense and raises contemporary i…
What a sparkling production of Born Yesterday at Ford's Theatre. Written in 1946 as the United States was standing powerful after the carnage of WWII, Garson Kanin's script is delightfully s…
Separating a theater company's production from the playwright's script is crucial when evaluating a performance. After all, an engaging full production can do the old razzle-dazzle to cover …