Thank your lucky stars that there's no place like home. Because home is a hellhole, a dank stone cottage in a stultifying backwater, where your constant companion is a carping parent who bar…
Adele Robey took one look at the 5,000 square feet of possibility in Anacostia and decided it had to be hers. "They took me down here and I said: 'This is it,' " she was saying, as th…
Forum Theatre, a 10-year-old Silver Spring-based company with a penchant for boldness, will no longer be setting the price of admission to its plays. You will. In a gambit that will be watch…
Overly dramatic doesn't begin to describe this old railroad town on the Avon River. So enamored of theater is this locale that matinee performances here run not just on weekends or Wednesday…
Watching a performance by Mitchell Jarvis, you're struck by the thought that if he showed up at your door, you'd rush to lock away the silverware, the hard liquor and your daughter. In a se…
Jordan Friend, a recent graduate of Georgetown Day School and a budding theatrical dynamo, went looking for a place to put on a play this summer with a bunch of his old high school pals. Dau…
"A Killing Game" is, at last, dead-on. Those other-centered folks at Dog & Pony D.C. " the company that wants to put you in the actor's seat " have brought back their disease-minded audi…
In the solemn "Fallbeil," a young German woman whose soldier-brother has been horrifically maimed in a terror attack gains strength from her encounters with the ghost of a young German woman…
The path from offbeat movie inspiration to generic musical passes directly through "Spin," the bouncy work-in-progress that is christening Signature Theatre's new Siglab musical development …
The moment has come for delving into that hypnotic stage ritual that can cause you to space out on sensation " like you're under sedation. To achieve this altered state, you have to jump to …
With a slight nod to "Carrie," the monodrama "Marsha" tells the story of a troubled, neglected little girl, who, left to her own devices in a cold and insular town, wreaks a kind of havoc th…
With their customary assortment of gags, jabs, songs and jibes, the jokesters of Chicago's venerable Second City are back in town. And if the shivs they plunge into an array of soft targets …
As a title, "How to be a Terrorist" is the fringe equivalent of click bait. Monologist Jimmy Grzelak of Southwick, Mass., newly graduated from Williams College, knows just how to pique the c…
First, he was a storyteller. Then he was a scandal. And now, at last, he's a musical. You know who I'm talkin' about: the controversial Mike Daisey, immortalized in the rhythms of soft rock …
For success these days with a new American musical, try adding a little Seoul. Neil Bartram and Brian Hill are doing exactly that, staying in a Shirlington flat as they whip into shape their…
Don't believe what they say. Money can buy happiness. It's yours for the price of a ticket to "The Book of Mormon." And if you're already in possession of one, then you've wisely secured a s…
NEW YORK " Although the Capital Fringe Festival isn't beginning its eighth installment in and around Mount Vernon Square until Thursday, it has already opened its doors in a city 220 miles t…
"Baby Universe" is adorable. And a nightmare. We've come to that point, it seems, when tales of the end of human history are no longer the exclusive domain of wild-eyed prognosticators and d…
LONDON " God save the king " of theaters. By virtue of its extraordinary range and acumen, the National Theatre, the 50-year-old company that since 1976 has operated out of a bulky modern co…
In another sign of intensifying competition for performance spaces in and around the D.C. region, Round House Theatre is giving up its successful satellite theater in Silver Spring next June…
By the time of the late local news on Sunday, "Matilda" should be waltzing. Dancing away, that is, with most of the Tony Awards for which the musical is eligible during the 67th annual ce…
In the early 1940s, a young man named John Biggers enrolled at Hampton Institute, a black college near Norfolk, at the same time that Viktor Lowenfeld, a painter and art scholar who had fled…
The laughs are as big as the perplexities of personality are deep in Signature Theatre's creditable, vocally adept version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's oft-revived "Company." Two …
When you gaze at the person you've chosen to spend your life with, what do you really see? Or more to the point, as the Kennedy Center's beguiling "The Guardsman" asks: What don't you see? T…
If there's a stairway to musical-theater heaven, it will be winding next season through Washington. With the announcement Tuesday of a bold new four-show Broadway subscription series at the …