Adapted and directed by Gregory Keng Strasser, "The Infinite Tales" at 4615 Theatre Company covers three of the four major periods recognized in Irish mythology. In this production, we have …
This was a most unexpected play. It doesn't shy away from confronting the audience with searing truths about the history of racism in this country. Douglas Turner Ward, the playwright, was b…
The Bowie Community Theatre does an admirable job at putting on this amusing, yet serious, slice-of-life look at what it means to be a Jew in the South before WWII. Set in Atlanta, the Freit…
Last year, Monumental Theatre presented Act 1 of "Montgomery," a new musical about Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, civil rights attorney Fred Gray, and the civil rights movement in Montgomery,…
What is art "supposed" to do? Is there a proper way to view art, much less judge it? Is art even art if you don't know the artist's backstory, or at least a portion of it? . . . the actors d…
Synetic Theater is beginning their new season with a water-filled production of 'The Tempest.' So the ignite the late afternoon crowd at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage on Sunday, Synetic…
So, eight assassins walk into a bar, six men and two women. All are fabulous singers, skilled at immersing themselves in their roles; dedicated to their craft; and one is a smashing dancer. …
Let me be honest"I had never heard of any of the three acts I saw on Tuesday at RHIZOME, so had no expectations or preconceptions. And that's good"because the work of all three was mind-expa…
To be diagnosed is one thing"to accept it is another. In playwright and actor Iyona Blake's new work (this is the first production; it is a work in progress) this is one of the issues she ex…
Nassim Solimanpour is the playwright who created "Blank." He also created "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," another play which must be performed by a different actor each performance. Now the reaso…
A natural amphitheatre in the woods, at the end of a gravel path and surrounded by rising walls of trees and dirt and foliage is a very fitting setting to experience "Bent," now playing at H…
Interestingly, this play is billed as a "romantic comedy" by the publishing company for it, Samuel French. To my mind, that sobriquet is too lighthearted for a play that eviscerates love, lo…
It would not be gushing to say that "Vivian's Music 1969" is brilliant. It simply is. Impeccably acted and beautifully written, the play, written by Monica Bauer, is a snapshot in time of a …
Adapted from a short story published in February 1924 by brilliant horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, this production is very Gothic. It would be easy to picture Vincent Price stumbling into the …
Martin Graff is an illustrator, author and composer who has created this heartfelt work based on his travels and life and musings about how humans connect with one another. He uses his own l…
Signature Theatre is ending its 29th season with a funny, light-hearted look at the end of the era of pirates in the Atlantic Ocean in the 1700s. "Blackbeard" is a fun, mildly ribald romp th…
Imagine that two monks show up at your house, politely knocking and bowing, and then want to discuss taking your three-year-old son back to India because he is believed to be the reincarnati…
I am officially besotted with Ida Lupino after seeing 'Gwen & Ida: The Object Is of No Importance'; I was so intrigued by the character onstage (gracefully played with steely resolve by …
Nora returns, and Nora returns in style. She returns as her own fully-realized woman, and even better, keeps learning and growing. It's a challenge for any writer to credibly imagine what th…
'Forest Treas' (actually pronounced Forest Triage), the world premiere now playing at Pointless Theatre, is an interesting exploration of an almost-Stepford-type of a community shaken out of…
Remember family vacations"in an earlier era, piling into a station wagon or a big old Chevy Bel Air (or something similar), later in mini-vans, and now in SUVs? While the mode of transportat…
This show is so hysterically funny it should come with a warning label: may cause unrestrained glee and weakness in the core from laughing so hard. Your jaws might ache, but it's a good ache…
This is an ambitious, involved show that uses the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk that killed 96 people, including Poland's president as a linchpin. Starting in 1920 with the chance meeting of …
As the season winds down, Port Tobacco Players joins with many theatres in producing a lovely piece of nostalgia. "Deathtrap" is knowingly self-referential, wryly witty, and convoluted enoug…
The musical partnership of Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith has produced their fifth new musical under Creative Cauldron's "Bold New Works for Intimate Stages" musical theatre commissio…