Aaron Posner is everywhere this season. With productions of Stupid Fucking Bird popping up in theatres all across America, and a few Helen Hayes and Barrymore Awards in both writing and dire…
Forget the pastoral images of Arden, or the shepherds and royalty you might expect from this play. Synetic's dance-theatre rendition of As You Like It has all the dark twists and haunted ima…
The Hub's black box theatre offers an intimate experience, magnified in Wish List's vanishing of a fourth wall. The three performers – Rose McConnell, Katie Jeffries, and Sasha Olinick…
The cast of Pericles, now onstage at the Folger Theatre, will have lived through countless famines, shipwrecks, and tournaments by the time they complete the play's three-venue run. Beginnin…
Welcome to the neighborhood, here's a pie. So begins our entry into the Alabama neighborhood of Maytag Virgin, or, more specifically, the shared grounds between two houses (one intricately d…
One of the gifts of Carroll's Wonderland is that its world of illogical situations and creatures both provides the structure of a narrative while allowing plenty of space to imagine and inte…
Children of the '90s, climb on board. The Oregon Trail, modeled after the primitive computer game of the same name, is Flying V's contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Written…
Our city has a long history of conflating people with their chosen profession. Of course, being Washington, there are large subsets of our residents who can't disclose what they do for a liv…
"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity." This one line offers up the theme of Tennessee William's renowned Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in ten simple words. But, as evidenced…
Framed in a certain way, The Madwoman of Chaillot nearly reads like a news headline. Whether the media outlet is CNN or The Onion depends entirely on what you focus on " because this French …
Sometimes it doesn't take an assassination, an earthquake, or a war to make headlines. Sometimes a production stocked with dazzling dance moves, a gifted cast, and catchy melodies is enough …
Something is amiss in a converted church on 20th Street, which the trenchcoated guards by the door " members of the cast – make plain. This is the world of The Trap, Ambassador Theater…
Zombie: The American is a marketing department's dream"touching on political commentary with cheeky humor and more than a splash of the undead, it looks and sounds like a show that would bri…
Ninety-two coins spun consecutively have come down heads ninety-two consecutive times, all confirming that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now onstage at the Folger Theatre, is one to…
With several Vanyas to choose from this spring, Round House Theatre is celebrating its take on the Chekhov classic as one of the more authentic — a version of Uncle Vanya that would ma…
Via theatreWashington: Washington, DC – theatreWashington President & CEO Linda Levy announced today that she is retiring after serving the organization and Washington's theatre co…
This year's Helen Hayes Awards didn't seek to dazzle. It was enough to attempt the daunting — if not altogether impossible"task of presenting awards for both Helens and Hayeses in a ce…
Everything about Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play is ambitious. Clocking in at just under four hours (yes, you read that right), the three-play cycle chronicles the staging of Passion plays across …
Michael John Garcés is no stranger to Washington, DC. Washington audiences will remember the 2013 production of The Convert, and before that, Oedipus El Rey. He directed both for Woolly Mam…
The world is ending at Signature Theatre. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a song. In Soon, a world premiere musical from writer/composer Nick Blaemire, we are faced with the th…
In roughly two hours, Cherokee packs in a man's disappearance, sex in a tent, two slaughtered bunnies, a Native American wilderness guide, a midlife crisis, a pregnancy, bigamy, an improv th…
Shakespeare Theatre brings back David Ives to instill some archaic French literature into our lives. From the adaptor of The Liar and Venus in Furs comes The Metromaniacs–this one̵…
As if Washington's current climate isn't frigid enough for our liking, Bryony Lavery's controversial play Frozen has arrived to further chill the air. The Tony-nominated drama, which centers…
The latest in our area's world premiere productions takes us back to a literary classic. The Turn of the Screw, now onstage at ArtSpace Falls Church, is the inaugural production in Creative …
It is a risky thing to make this claim in the first month of the year. But if you see one show at Studio Theatre in 2015, let it be Choir Boy. Tarrell Alvin McCraney, the wunderkind playwrig…