173 stories by "Ravelle Brickman"
Jo Williamson is the creator and performer behind metamorphose, a solo production stitched together out of some musical storytelling and the patterns of Martha Graham-like modern dance. As i…
Love in Three Scenes, which opened during the second week of this year's Capital Fringe, is not so much about love per se as it is about the lack thereof, particularly on the part of our…
Solo performances are among the most difficult in show business. Without other actors to parry dialog or set up jokes, the entertainer can easily end up putting an audience to sleep. Luckily…
Shakespeare is alive and well at this year's Fringe, and that includes both the usual adaptations and some of the more surprising spin-offs. One of the most entertaining of the latter"qualif…
Against a background of black timber walls, a beautiful dark-haired woman stretches out languorously on a table. Dressed in a skimpy black nightgown, she moves like a dancer. On the floor, t…
The Vandal, which opened to a sold-out audience on the first weekend of the 2018 Capital Fringe, is a comedy about loss. It's also a bittersweet riff on death, performed by a trio of talente…
The Remains, a brand new one-act play that's been generating rave reviews since its opening at Studio Theatre two weeks ago, is a witty and wise meditation on marriage. By turns funny and sa…
When Emily Pogorelc bursts onto the stage in the Washington National Opera's current production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, there is a shock of laughter. Pogorelc plays Cunegonde, the sp…
Chris Stezin is a prolific playwright whose last play"produced at The Keegan Theatre in January of 2017"was Mack,Beth, a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Now he's back at the Keeg…
Last week, I decided to venture off my usual path and check out the Constellation Theatre, which performs at Source in the lively 14th Street corridor. What lured me there was the chance …
Forget the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Tonys. Here in the nation's capital, there is only one award worth talking about. And that's the Helen Hayes, honoring the best of DC's theater professi…
Paper Dolls, the bittersweet new musical that opened at Mosaic Theater Company two weeks ago, has produced standing ovations"and laughter and tears"at every production so far. Yet the show, …
When Natalie Toro steps onto the Arena Stage in the world premiere of Snow Child this week, she'll be adding a whole new role to the worldwide musical repertoire. But while the part is new, …
It's no coincidence that Matt Torney is directing Translations, the iconic Brian Friel play now on view at Studio Theatre. "It's a play I've wanted to do ever since I first saw it in B…
If you're looking for proof that big things come in small packages, then you need look no further than the tiny black box theater where A Burial Place, produced by the Wheel Theatre Company …
Can you imagine a chamber music concert"a quartet, playing mostly classical work by composers with names like Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich"getting six encores? And seven"yes, seven"standi…
When the curtain goes up on Becoming Dr. Ruth – the one-woman show starring Naomi Jacobson and directed by Holly Twyford – the character on stage at Theater J is not, primarily, …
Hobson's Choice is a winner. The play – a sparkling comedy with a terrific cast – just opened at the Quotidian Theatre Company, a jewel of a playhouse tucked into the rear of the…
Despite its off-putting (and overly-clever) title, Digging Up Dessa is a lively and often moving tale of two 12-year-olds who are lost in the middle of a strange new world and trying to find…
Sovereignty, the long-heralded new play by Mary Kathryn Nagle – a member of the Cherokee Nation and one of barely a dozen Native American playwrights writing today – has arrived.…
Twelve years after it was first adapted for the stage by British playwright Simon Block, the play Everything Is Illuminated –Â based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer –Â h…
It's no coincidence that Queens Girl in Africa"Caleen Sinnette Jennings' semi-autobiographical one woman play now at Mosaic Theater Company of DC"was chosen to kick off the Women's Voices Th…
Now in its 21st year, the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage is the Center's gift to everyone in the Washington area, offering live entertainment at no cost every single day. It's also a grea…
One of the best things about improv is that no two shows are alike. And Citizens' Watch, the improvisational mystery now unfolding at Washington Improv Theater, is no exception.
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Chances are you've seen him before, either as an angry Pakistani cook on Seinfeld or a benign Indian doctor on The Big Bang Theory. That's because Brian George, the character actor now dazzl…
