Still Life With Rocket is greater than the sum of its arts. The diverse forms of installation, choreography, and character-driven drama come together in this collaboratively devised experien…
The set that we see is a towering eyeful, The interior decorator spared nary a trifle, For decked all about are amusing objets d'art On loan from museums with tastes tres bizarre. Claes Olde…
Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne was a smash hit at Source Festival when it debuted there four years ago, and the comedy’s return to Source on the occasion of the festival’s t…
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, concerts never lack for inspired high concepts and ingenious themes. Whether featuring love songs, cowboy songs, nostalgia songs, or who-knows-what-…
The young performer, playwright, and self-described gender warrior Malic White is in town from Chicago making a singularly significant debut on a DC stage playing Max, a whip-smart …
The absurdity and grim reality of gender get a scathing going-over in this extraordinary play by Taylor Mac. Inside the hilarity of Hir (pronounced “here”) is a tragedy howling t…
There’s an extraordinarily tender and touching moment in Signature Theatre’s ebullient Jesus Christ Superstar when Mary Magdalene (Natascia Diaz), after singing her gorgeous ball…
Near the beginning of this transporting play, the actor Sarah Marshall, wearing a man-tailored white suit, unrolls a map of Gaza and lays it on the floor. She then dumps onto it 150 tiny …
Megan Dominy’s The Wedding Party was a huge hit in Capital Fringe 2015 (the DCMetroTheater Arts review called it a “delightful comedic romp”). Now in her new play,Â�…
There are reasons aplenty not to miss The Father now playing at The Studio Theatre, and Ted van Griethuysen’s performance in the title role is foremost among them. Recently the recipie…
Curious questions tease the brain during this peculiarly provocative production. One is: Is this theater? Another is: What are we to make of it? The Man Who, just opened at the estimably idi…
How does a play that starts out about real estate for gosh sake"adjacent farms in rural Ireland"become a heart-wrenching story of adjacent lost souls who fall in love late in life? How does …
DC site-specific theater of resistance reached a new height last night"also a new low"as Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s arresting staging of Vaclav Havel’s Protest became the f…
Much to my tickled surprise, last night I found myself shouting out that I am a lesbian"I along with an entire audience in Lab One at The Atlas Performing Arts Center! Really, all of us, abo…
Who’da thunk that our current administration’s dysfunction would prompt nostalgia for our eight years worth of W.? But that indeed is the curious takeaway from watching Lisa Hods…
I remember thinking after I first saw Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People at Arena that the character Jaysen Wright plays, Jackson Moore, has an important and particular role in how whole …
The dystopia delineated in Building the Wall is predicted by the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, to happen in America very soon. By the time the play is set, in the year 2019, the two char…
There are mysteries of belief and faith beneath this fascinating parable of a play, roiling like the seawater that churns below the wooden house where its action takes place. This house is b…
“I do believe you darkies are trying to kill me,” says Martha Washington to her house slaves in this fantastical-historical play, just opened in a sensationally cheeky production…
Racism, presumed in polite circles to be no laughing matter, gets a hilariously smart deconstruction in Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People. Arena Stage has given this 2016 play its DC…
As play titles go, Or, is one of the most ungoogleable. It is a search engine dead end. And as an original mashup of past and present, prose and poetry, and performative purposes, Liz Duffy …
After I watched eleven B.F.A. candidates in Howard University’s Class of 2017 perform a program of self-scripted audition pieces"character-rich monodramas, actually"I had one overwhelm…
Until I saw Blood Knot at Mosaic Theater Company, I knew the work of Director Joy Zinoman only by reputation. I had come to her legend late. And the production blew me away. Set in apartheid…
DC Metro Theater Arts "More Local Performing Arts Coverage Than You'll Find Anywhere Else" Bruce Markowitz, Founder Joel Markowitz, Publisher and Editor Nicole Hertvik, Assistant Ed…
There are moments in this gripping, challenging, and deeply thought-provoking drama when the smallest of gestures by the two actors say what the play is about more than words can. A Human Be…