Family politics are prickly enough, but throw in a proudly political left-wing clan and you've got the makings of some proletariat pyrotechnics. Amy Herzog's play After the Revolution is bas…
Wacky ain't for wimps. Capturing that seltzer fizz, cream pie lightness of classic slapstick is far trickier than it looks. Even the queen of loopy Southern Gothic, Pulitzer Prize-winning pl…
Pretending becomes a pretext for change in Annie Baker's subtly engrossing Circle Mirror Transformation, which unfolds with verite veracity at Rep Stage under the direction of Suzanne Beal. …
The F-word. Not exactly a rarity in contemporary theater. But another F-word is"feminism. Feminist theory and the compromises women make combine into a snappy and rueful comedy by Gina Gionf…
Vanessa Hudgens is a brief breath of spring amid this harsh winter as the spirited gamine Gigi in a new, Broadway-bound production of the Lerner and Loewe musical Gigi now underway at the Ke…
It's exhilarating when history not only comes to life, but catches fire. That's what happens in Kemp Powers' powerful fact-fiction mash-up, One Night in Miami, an East Coast premiere brought…
Eating yourself to death. Not recommended. Trust me, I tried. The 400-lb. life I led 9 years and 190 lbs. ago was living from the neck up. Anything else was too hard, too painful. Because of…
You want to put on a letter sweater, grab some pom-poms and root for Diner, the world premiere musical based on Barry Levinson's seminal male-bonding movie, to find its way. The ingredients …
Leapin' Lizards! "It's a Hard-Knock Life" and "Tomorrow" have been auto-tuned to the point where the lyrics sound like they're being sung by a toaster oven rather than by the optimistic mopp…
Holly's poisonous, faulty lights can electrocute you, Christmas trees are firetraps, and watch out for salmonella lurking in that egg nog. The holidays can be murder. That's apparently the i…
Kids, gather 'round the glow of your smartphone screens and listen to a story. Once upon a time, there was a thing called newspapers"thick stacks of paper with words printed on them, words t…
Coworkers: How was your weekend? Me: Great! I saw this nearly four-hour play in D.C. about labor unions and the American Communist Party! Coworkers: [Sounds of crickets chirping] To put it m…
Laura Eason's Sex with Strangers is a booty call with brains. Funny, sexy and insightful, Sex with Strangers is a play about hooking up"and the often messy consequences when the afterglow fa…
The multi award-winning musical Next to Normal (it even garnered a Pulitzer) grabs you in the essential organs"gut, heart, brain"from the first power chord and doesn't let go until the last …
Ditch the Disney princesses and all that pink. Fairies, especially night fairies with their dark eyes and shimmering garb of midnight blue, are feistier and more fun. Flory (Tia Shearer, wou…
How can something so sumptuous also be so balanced? That's the delicious riddle of Center Stage's production of Amadeus, which, under the assured direction of artistic director Kwame Kwei-Ar…
Sometimes, a break from Broadway brass and bombast is a good thing. No one savors glitz and a Merman-esque belt more than this critic, but the still power and poise of Once may make you re-t…
Metamorphosis meets The Actor's Nightmare in Theresa Rebeck's boisterous and mind-bending comedy The Understudy, a satisfying season-opener at Everyman Theatre directed with absurdist elatio…
Stephen Sondheim's incandescent 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George inspires like a great work of art. You never tire of looking at it and you see new things, feel new things every t…
When we first meet Julian (Alex Podulke), he's a talking head. The brainchild of techies and artificial intelligence scientist Claire (Barbara Kingsley), Julian is a robot learning to be lif…
Jeez, all the palookas want in North of the Boulevard is an effing break. Is that too much to ask? They don't want millions or to rule the world. They just want to pay some bills, maybe get …
At last, a play about planning and project management. If it weren't for the stage lights and stadium seating, you might think you were at work, trapped in a 100-minute meeting with Powerpoi…
Playwright Charles Fuller delves into another grim aspect of military life in One Night. His 1982 play A Soldier's Story dealt with racism and black self-hatred at an Army base in Louisiana …
Never mess with a goddess. That's the lesson of Venus in Fur, director Roman Polanski's frisky and taut film adaptation of the 2010 play by David Ives that brought kink back to Broadway way …
The roadshow version of Buyer & Cellar starring Michael Urie? It's like buttah. Barbra Streisand will probably never show up at a performance"c'mon Babs, Carole King put on her big girl …