George C. Wolfe's 1984 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the '90s TV show In Living Color and at other times feels more d…
This exhilarating Tristan & Yseult shakes us out of our role as passive observers and reminds us of the euphoria and the heartbreak love can bring.
Celeste Oliva's performance is so raw, we experience every doubt, every fear, and watch her confidence slowly evaporate under pressure.
The King of Second Avenue's one-joke shtick wears out long before the end of this 90-minute musical.
No doubt you'll recall Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Viola Davis, and Amy Adams in the Hollywood 2008 adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, a Parable " simply titled Doubt and …
Oh, 13. That awkward age. Why anyone would conceive of a musical glorifying puberty's tender rites and then shine the light on adolescent actors coming to grips with their own self-discovery…
Playwright Ken Ludwig is famous for farce, fevered dialogue, and throwing his characters' worlds off-kilter. Vienna Theatre Company's endearing take on 2005's Be My Baby " which Ludwig is al…
The virtuoso approach of Bedlam's Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.
Zayd Dohrn's slightly predictable Muckrakers offers some satisfying twists and turns as it moves toward the inevitable.
Playwright Ken Urban doesn't seem to have a strong point of view about his thirtysomethings-in-a-muddle; neither does he allow them to change or grow.
While worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.
In classic Revels style, the unexpected mix of talents results in a wonderful mash-up of comic schtick and classical performance.
Horton Foote's dialogue often dances on the edge of sentimentality, but, because of these performers, moments that might be sappy are instead deeply moving.
In this production the aching tension of intractable conflicts -- freedom versus responsibility, money versus morality -- occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried be…
Overheard at intermission of NextStop Theatre Company's production of A.R. Gurney's Sylvia, a guy whispers to his female companion: "I thought it was gonna be a real dog onstage." She bites:…
The fine efforts of the New Rep performers and Jim Petosa's thoughtful staging can't solve this musical's central flaw.
Shahrazad is the latest in Double Edge's summer spectacles, and with this piece, director and designer Stacy Klein has found the perfect balance between story and visuals.
Local playwright Jack Neary always captures the frisson of nostalgia and resentment familiar to Catholic school graduates of a certain era, teasing gently without ever offending.
Company One's production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action they …
(Best of the Capital Fringe) At last. A show that has taken the Capital Fringe Festival 2014 theme to heart: Move Me. Breast in Show, conceived and produced by Eileen Mitchard, is arguably t…
Tango, Cabaret, Love! is not for the faint of heart nor lack of appetite. Conceived, directed by and starring Cecilia De Feo, Laura Quiroga and Lorena Sabogal, the show is a bilingual escapa…
(Best of the Capital Fringe 2014) If by 13 Men " A Cabaret you were expecting a beefy crop of men in tights traipsing in and out of the followspot, that ain't it, kid. The "it" here: marquee…
You know you're in the presence of a legend when the material doesn’t matter as much as the immaterial. With the world premiere of Cloak and Dagger: Or the Case of the Golden Venus " E…
Beau Jest's playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.
The trio of writers has flattened Stephen King's gaggle of high school teens into two-dimensional clichés, devoid of any adolescent intensity.