Those who grew up with classic Hollywood Westerns filled with cowboy heroes shooting their way to justice will find a sharp departure in Bowie Community Theatre's production of Pearl Cleage'…
For Front & Center Stage's first production, Director Steve Einhorn took on the Tectonic Theater Project's The Laramie Project. Although they are a new theater company, this ensemble pie…
Few musicals are as universally loved as Les Misérables. With epic music, tragic characters, and a unique theatrical magnificence, it's no surprise that Les Mis has been successfully …
Self Portrait of a Sinner is a one-woman show performed by Veronique MacRae. The play goes through the seven deadly sins by presenting a character who represents some aspect of the sin in a …
The Human Algorithm is a solo performance piece that resembles less of a play and more of a standup comedy routine performed by your drunk aunt at Thanksgiving. While writer and performer CJ…
The Circle by banished? Productions might be one of your most unique experiences at the Fringe. The entire play takes place outside using Dupont Circle, Connecticut Avenue, and some surround…
Refresh: Stories of Love, Sex, and the Internet takes an unflinching and unglorified look at the less talked about aspects of the middle class suburban male's adolescence in the age of the i…
Although this piece of theater that is nearly eponymous with its catchphrase, A Few Good Men is so much more than people not handling the truth.  As Aaron Sorkin's flagship drama, Men …
July 31st at Wolf Trap touted an exciting double header- Australian rock outfit John Butler Trio and Reggae group SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) from Arlington, Virginia. For me, John Butler Tr…
Starting off with folk/rock outfit The Lone Bellow, the night's atmosphere was set perfectly. With high-spirited belting in three-part harmony accompanied by sailing mandolin and banjo, The …
In Underneath the Lintel, Pat O'Brien weaves a complex mythology in an epic, globetrotting quest that spans continents and centuries, delving into the conflict of futility and purpose in lif…
A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup knows exactly what it is: a hilarious, slapstick, pantomimic frolic through the imaginative lens of solo performer Yanomi Shoshinz. While constructing …
With a title as convoluted as WIGGERLOVER [whiteboy+blackdad=greyareas], one might be surprised by the straightforwardness James Anthony Zoccoli's [mostly] one man show. Â Despite the fact…
Despite My Civil War's description as a "multidisciplinary exploration of the American Civil War," this production feels more like a cursory stumbling through a series of tonally incoherent …
Bayou Blues is a communicative exploration of a young black girl's fears moving towards a summative moment of terror amidst Hurricane Katrina. And while this piece is scattered, unfocused, a…
The Pavilion by Craig Wright is a uniquely self-aware piece. But even as the script constantly reminds the audience that they are in fact watching a play, it is almost impossible to not beco…
I came into One Night with Janis Joplin asking one major question: how will a production presented as "more of a full on concert than a play" by Artistic Director Molly Smith translate into …
Flying V Theatre Company's self proclaimed title as a "local indie theater" carries a deceptively complex stigma along with its given purpose. To be successfully indie, one must be trendy wi…
The American Century Theater (TACT) touts a mission statement dedicated to the production of "great, important, and worthy American plays of the twentieth century." In their production of SN…
To the uninitiated, like me, the phanaticism of Phish phans can be puzzling. While it might be easy to write this band off as overly simplistic, true devotees know Phish for their epic impro…
When approaching an issue as sensitive and pervasive as mental illness, even the most seasoned performers can underplay the massive implications of a disorder or dramatize it to the point wh…
The topic of familial disintegration at the hands of a neurosis and death is a staple of American drama. Along with its Pulitzer Prize, August: Osage County clearly has joined the ranks of M…
First and foremost: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens is a very, very long novel and play, and is filled with some difficult Dickensian language, numerous pl…