For their final show of the 2018-2019 season, Dominion Stage is closing with a vintage 1970s play by James Kirkwood, Jr. Interestingly enough, the play came first, then the novel (both writt…
Using simple, beautifully polished and painted screens and low tables and pristine parasols, Constellation has transformed itself into the setting for a magical journey into legend. This is …
When you're in the mood for just sheer frothy fun and music by Kander & Ebb (the book is by Rupert Holmes), then "Curtains" is both a witty send-up of theatre tropes and a lovingly nosta…
Let me get this out of the way up front"the Best Medicine Rep Theatre is on the second floor of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. It is the first time I have ever been to see a show in a mall…
When the doors open for seating, theatre-goers are in for a visual extravaganza"the entire MAX (the larger of Signature's two black box theatres) has been turned in a grand, paneled and marb…
This is a very physical, lively play written by Angela Gant in the early 2000s while she was in college; in fact, it won national playwriting awards at the Kennedy Center American College Th…
I fell in love with the dog. The dog's name happens to be Dog, and as portrayed by Karen Lange, I just wanted to scoop her up and give her all the treats. Lange gives a performance that is s…
Well, Toto, we are in Kansas now"at least for the duration of this reverent revival of 'Bus Stop' by William Inge. The Aldersgate Church Community Theatre does a lovely job of bringing this …
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a serious play, with a capital "S." One thing audiences should be prepared for in this production of "Resolving Hedda," is that it is absolutely delicious fun. All th…
This is an intense theatrical experience because there's just no way forward for these two brothers. Uneducated, poor, black, abandoned by their parents a long time ago, and never part of a …
Sorrow is ground into this play, from the skirl of the bagpipes as you sit down to the grey lighting and scenery that evoke fog and mist and a mizzling rain to the involuntary moment of sile…
This is a show of such opposites that it is exhilarating and numbing all at the same time. Hate/love, forgiveness/revenge, pain/surcease, brutality/kindness, despair/hope, beauty/ugliness. I…
Every once in a while a play comes along that is so electric and alive and thought-provoking and mesmerizing that you want to shout about it from the rooftops. This is one such play. Don't m…
"Time Stands Still" may have been a replacement for a musical in their line-up this year, but the Reston Community Players do full justice to it. From the phenomenally constructed and gorgeo…
In terms of the #MeToo movement and a growing seriousness about sexual violence against women, this is a very timely script. It checks a number of boxes"body dysmorphia, Queen Bee syndrome, …
Sometimes a production is so good it reminds you all over again of the power of theatre to demand participation by paying attention and losing yourself in the story. This production of ̶…
“Arsenic and Old Lace” is like an old friend"comfortable, cozy, known. It's not going to offer any surprises, but you hope the ride will be fun. 'Arsenic and Old Lace' is like an…
This is a shiny show. The music, the actors, costumes, set, lighting"they just shine. This musical revue, with the book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various compos…
Get ready to raise the roof. Then stomp your feet and clap and shout amen. This show grabs you by the throat with raw emotion and music that will lift you to a better place for two hours. Th…
Like many of the plays WSG produces, this one is a quiet barn-burner. It takes two families from the mid-1950s and puts them through some bedrock-deep changes, set against the backdrop of ra…
This show is a delight and funny and sad and ultimately hopeful. Working with themes of growth and loss and change and generosity, love and unexpected friendship, the Reston Community Player…
Kleptocracy is an interesting word. It means a government with corrupt leaders that exploit the people and resources for personal gain and expansion of powers. As produced at Arena, “K…
One of the highlights of this work is that for around 15 minutes one is treated to a hysterically funny and deadly serious non-stop howl of outrage from a college-bound senior (a deliriously…
In the best of circumstances, this is a demanding, difficult musical; and the circumstances at the Port Tobacco Players Theatre were quite good. The troupe were up to the challenge and did n…
Somehow there is a cosmic joke running through Shakespeare Theatre Company's “The Panties, The Partner and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class” and it's e…