I first encountered Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies five months ago, when it was presented at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival. Hearing the play at that first public reading wa…
Chris Stezin is a playwright, actor, and director whose work"on and off the stage"has brightened the marquees of DC theatres for more than two decades. The author of roughly 25 plays in as m…
If you think teaching manners to a group of outcast runaways sounds like a joke"ridiculous at best, and irrelevant or possibly dangerous at worst"then think again. Because the idea of offeri…
If you're looking for something to laugh at in this wintry political season, then you'd better move fast. That's because tickets for Twist Your Dickens, Second City's parody of A Christmas C…
Yes, the rumors are true. The Christians"now making its DC debut at Theater J"is amazing. It's amazing for its sheer audacity"first, in turning the nation's leading Jewish theater into a …
The Second City's Black Side of the Moon" the Chicago-based comedy troupe's first foray into post-Obama politics"launched the holiday season this week with an African-American cast and a sho…
If the idea of "sophisticated family entertainment" sounds like a contradiction in terms"an oxymoron if ever there were one"then Peter and the Starcatcher, which just opened for a quick run …
There's good news and bad news floating out of GALA Hispanic Theatre this week. First, the bad news. Salvador"the full-length autobiographical dance drama, choreographed by the great Flamenc…
Milk Like Sugar, the Obie Award-winning play that just opened at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, starts off as badass comedy, the kind where the word "shit""repeated like an "amen" at the end …
Whatever your choice in Hallowe'en fare, Witch"an adaptation of a Jacobean melodrama now having its world premiere at The Mead Theatre Lab"has it all. There's murder, mayhem, and blood on th…
Billed as "The Second City's Completely Unbiased Political Revue," Unelectable You"now in the middle of a four month pre-election national tour"paused in Washington, DC last weekend for a st…
There have been so many plays about dysfunctional families"think about August: Osage County, for example, or The Sisters Rosensweig"that it's hard to believe that anyone would try to produce…
If you're like most Americans, you've probably never heard of Cervantes. Or you know him only as the creator of Don Quixote, a book you last picked up in high school. But don't let that dete…
Mosaic Theater Company of DC Unveils Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies. Full Production Set for World Premiere in January 2017 One of the most highly anticipated new plays of the 2016-17…
It's poignant and painful, funny and moving. Yet most of all, Satchmo at the Waldorf"the beautifully-wrought one-man show that opened to a packed house Monday night"is vastly entertaining. A…
Pat O'Brien's solo performance in Underneath the Lintel has been captivating US and Canadian Fringe audiences for eight years now, and it's not hard to see why. Seeing O'Brien"a longtime sta…
The scene is deceptively simple. It's winter. Two old men"one shivering in a sweater, the other swaddled in layers of coats and hats"are sitting on a park bench, contemplating the emptiness …
GALA Hispanic Theatre"home of the National Center for Latino Performing Arts"kicked off its 41st season this weekend with the DC premiere of Miss Cuarenta. The dazzling solo performance"w…
She's been described as a stand-up comic, a multilingual humorist, a playwright, and a director. But mostly CJ, as she likes to be called, is a master storyteller whose ability to laugh at h…
The idea of matching music to photographs is not new, but in 35MM"now having its DC premiere at the Atlas Performing Arts Center as part of this year's Capital Fringe"the approach gets an en…
Stephanie Mumford's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story, The Lady With the Little Dog"now at the Quotidian Theatre Company"is a stunning tribute to the literary classic and as faithful…
Anyone looking for a respite from this summer's sultry heat need look no further than the stage at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where Do Not Disturb"a cross between comic opera and bedr…
Susan Jackson's new play, Death Be Not Loud"produced by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company and billed as "a contemporary Southern comedy""is a sweet reflection on love and loss, featuring…
In Ain't that Rich, California-based writer and comedian Kate Robards delivers a dazzling solo performance, one as mesmerizing and powerful as it is funny. The show is now making its debut a…
Is it a coincidence that Another Way Home"which opened at Theater J on Monday night"just happens to coincide with the start of sleepaway camp for kids in the DC area? Not at all. That's beca…