Boy, things have certainly changed since the days of "See Spot Run." Dick is sick and goes by the grown-up name Richard (Neimah Djourabchi, a textbook 50s Dad with existential longing). His …
"How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?" So wonders the desperate Joad family in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," as they burn their belongings befor…
As I was watching the DC premiere of Anna Ziegler's inspired-by-a-true-story play, Boy, now playing at Keegan Theatre, there was an Oscar Wilde quote rattling around in the back of my brain …
In The Clemency of Titus, currently being presented at the Kennedy Center under its World Stages program, we have the most unbelievable plot imaginable given one of the most delightful produ…
I mostly love the works brought to DC by The Kennedy Center's World Stages. I love the sub-genre of one-person shows. I also take a serious interest and have been involved in working with th…
The King's Speech, the true royal story told in an Academy Award-winning 2010 film, brings its American debut as a play to the National Theatre. Early in, King George V (who in 1932 beca…
From dimming a marquee, to moments of silence, to toasts and notes and thanks, this Valentine's Day, the DC area theater community will express its love for Victor Shargai, philanthropist, l…
As my toddler stuffed fistfuls of frosting in her mouth, I couldn't help think of Zomo the Rabbit, the deliciously fun Theater for Young Audiences play that we saw earlier. Not just because …
Watching Rorschach Theatre's production of Toxic Avenger: The Musical, I wondered what it is about this show that makes it seem as indestructible as its mutant monster hero? Toxic Avenger: T…
Justin Weaks is well-known to DC audiences these days. He's worked over 20 productions since 2015, won a Helen Hayes James MacArthur Award in 2017 (Word Becomes Flesh), and, after finishing …
As Constellation Theatre Company wraps up its performance of The 39 Steps each night, one thing's for certain: the lighting designer deserves his own curtain call. Managing Director A.J. Gub…
The Phantom of the Opera meets The Red Shoes in Synetic Theater's sexy and Goth take on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel about ghosts, haute society, obsession and the symbiotic relationship betwe…
For those of you who have been living under a rock or putting up moose jerky with the Doomsday Preppers these last few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that ages-old, ever-young cult …
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz has come to Washington's GALA Hispanic Theatre to direct his most recent play, and has unleashed from his prodigiously creative mind something lik…
Save the Earth. Kick a little ass. Ripe out a spleen (or a spine). And do it all with a power-pop ballad in your heart. That is The Toxic Avenger: The Musical, and, in Rorschach's hands, …
If you love groundbreaking musical theater, I suggest you navigate away from this page for just a few seconds to snap up tickets to Signature Theatre's Gun & Powder while you still can. …
A stranger comes to town. He changes things up. He sheds a light on deep darkness. There are things the people don't want to see but can't look away. There is something of the shaman abo…
Venetian writers Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi have a battle royale throwdown in this giddy world premiere, Comedy of Venice. Esteemed writer Gozzi (Turandot) rules the roost in Venice a…
Technically, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's evening at the Kennedy Center Opera House Tuesday was a performance. But following a pre-concert gala, with an audience in sparkling gowns a…
Olney Theatre Center leads the pack of company nominations with 27 nods for this year's Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington announced last night at its annual kickoff to the Helen Hayes Aw…
(First off: my sincere apologies to the company for my constant coughing through the performance.) Henry Bolingbroke, having snatched the English crown with boist'rous hands, must now strugg…
Olney Theatre Center's production of Miss You Like Hell explores issues of immigration policies, parental abandonment and the power of Latinx women. Lisa Portes makes her Olney Theatre direc…
"He was her only child: her baby boy..maybe an A-1 student running, hiding, taking cover. The women gather crying tears that fill a million oceans. It doesn't matter where you're living.…
Folger Theatre will be out-of-house for the 2020-21 season while the venerable Folger Shakespeare Library undergoes renovation. To get its audiences ready for the pleasures yet to be, the co…
There are a few ways to handle the often reviled, increasingly prevalent form we know as the "jukebox musical." Sometimes (Mama Mia!, as an example), the music catalog of a popular artist or…