It's been quite a year for men who know next to nothing about certain industries talking over women who've made careers out of the same industry. I think that's partially what inspired Keega…
Can I make a confession to you, theatregoer? "Man of La Mancha" is one of my all-time favorite plays, and this production by the Arlington Players reminded me of all of the reasons why! Dire…
At the height of the action of Jen Silverman's "A Collective Rage: A Tale in Five Boops," one of the Boops joyfully exclaims "art is danger and profit!" The full title: "In Essence a Queer a…
The origin story of “The Last Schwartz” is equally as endearing as its actual story. This was actually Deborah Zoe Laufer's first play, and it was read as part of a reading of Ju…
In one of my previous jobs, I walked past the security guard, let's call him Fred, every morning. Sometimes I would be running trying to get to work on time. Other times, I would be ambling …
The Kennedy Center is an institution, inspiring awe from the moment you walk in the door. You get to your seat and the stage is an Elizabethan hall, with light filtering through the latticew…
Shakespeare's Henry V famously begins "O for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention, a kingdom for a stage, princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling sce…
It seems a little presumptuous to write a review of something so amorphous as improvisational comedy. It was always an enigma to me, being so married to the written word. It was my worst sub…
It's a lovely Sunday morning in July where Jesus smiles down upon the congregation of Mount Logan Lutheran Church, who've just gathered round the basement in order to see the world premiere …
When J. Robert Oppenheimer was called upon to discuss his participation in the Manhattan Project and witnessing the destruction wrought by the invention, he recalled a quote from the Bhagava…
When Lin Manuel Miranda announced at the 2009 White House Poetry Jam that he was planning on writing a rap musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, he was met with outright laughter.…
Somewhere towards the middle of Anna Ziegler's Another Way Home, Philip turns to his wife Lillian after searching for hours for their son and demands, rather than asks of her, "What else can…
Even in 2016, far beyond the days of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, mental Illness is a topic that is rarely brought up until it is absolutely necessary, such in instances of unspeakable destruct…
Sound waves travel through the air around us, molecule by molecule until finally, they reach our ears. There are people that touch our lives in this same most fundamental way, and more than …
When you walk into the Kensington Town Hall, home of the Kensington Arts Theatre, you are usually greeted with a towering bleacher structure. This show however called for an array of small r…
There are plays that move us, and shake us, and inspire us to act, but then there are those that inspire us to be true to ourselves and use our own voice. Voices the play written and produce…
The Creative Cauldron has brought Broadway to the humble town of Falls Church Virginia in their incredible production of Caroline, or Change. Matt Conner directs a cast and crew of absolutel…
"How familiar are you with The Who's Tommy?" This is the question that directors Carlotta Capuano and Ruben Vellekoop were presented with at the beginning of their journey into this eccentri…
In the middle of act one of award-winning playwright Bathsheba Doran's newest play, protagonist Charlotte laments to her friend that "there should be as many words for racism as the Eskimos …
American Idiot the album came out when I was in middle school, and the first time I heard it was surreptitiously in gym class, when I should have been running laps. I thought that the angry …
In their first non- musical, Kensington Arts Theatre presents the drama The Laramie Project, written by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project. In his director's note, John Nune…
From the imagination of the man behind Rosemary's Baby comes one of Broadway's longest running mystery thrillers: Deathtrap. In his Director's Note, Andrew JM Regiec expressed the special…