The mystery at the center of this adroit drama keeps getting mysteriouser and mysteriouser: What’s in the small room at the top of the stairs? Playwright Carole Fréchette has crafted …
I first read E.B. White's classic children's novel Charlotte's Web in my second grade English class. I remember being amazed by how a story so simple could be instilled with something so bea…
A battle between assimilation and affiliation, the personal and historical, Jewish versus Jew-ish. This is Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon's bitingly witty maiden voyage that put him on the playwrit…
Back in the ’60s, Bob Dylan wrote "The Times They Are a-Changing," an ode to protest, social change and the country's mood moment. Dance Place's New Releases Choreographers Showcase va…
Going back to Ancient Greece, theater has functioned as a forum for informed public debate"about war, religion, politics, all the issues relevant to the citizenry of the day. The Greeks had …
Young Artists of America's televised performance of Young Artists of America: The Songs of Tim Rice that premiered on Maryland Public Television (MPT) in June of 2017, has been nominated for…
I have reviewed the National Memorial Day Concerts several years in a row and they are always top notch events with distinguished talent. This year, the 29th-anniversary show, is no exceptio…
What must their mothers have been like? Certainly, cousins Daphna and Liam (Sophie Schulman and Noah Schaefer), the antagonists in Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, now playing at Herndon's NextStop…
Ah, summer " that fabled time of fireflies and lemonade stands, seersucker suits with wilting collars, tubing along a quiet stream, and of course — theatre. Â Â Live theatre. Â …
The 1950s Brooklyn waterfront setting of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge has long since disappeared. The container revolution, beginning in the 1970s, ended forever the traditional lo…
It has been a muscular classic read for centuries. It has withstood the test of time, at least up to now. But in these contemporary days, does Homer's Iliad resonate, or has it lost its t…
Colonial Players of Annapolis' production of Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina, first produced in 2014, offers a powerful look at a still-misunderstood subject. Directed by Mickey Lund, it f…
Among the rich offerings in The Kennedy Center’s Artes de Cuba festival were two extraordinary works of theater, each performed but twice: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, from Teat…
On the heels of its impressive 9-award win at last week's Helen Hayes Awards, GALA Hispanic Theatre hosted its annual Night of the Stars gala this week at the Organization of American States…
An imaginative, lyrical, and bittersweet stage adaptation of Henry James' heartbreaking novella of 1903, The Beast in the Jungle reunites the celebrated team of John Kander (music), David Th…
Looking for something well-crafted, suspenseful, and with plenty of lingering moments of anxiety? Then head on to Spooky Action Theater's production of The Small Room at the Top of the Stair…
They have such a tasteful, immaculate, picture-perfect kitchen, how could their marriage be such a sorry mess? That’s a crass way to ask the question, but the answers are beautifully n…
By Betsy Lizotte Greenbelt Arts Center's production of Return to the Forbidden Planet, written by Bob Carlton and directed by Jeffrey Lesniak, takes the audience for a rowdy rocket ship ride…
As was announced at the beginning of the National Chamber Ensemble's recent musical offering Today's Classical and Jazz Masters —in a veiled reference to the British Royal Wedding R…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts and Producing Artistic Director Patrick A’Hearn present Always Patsy Cline. Created by Ted Swindley, the show is inspired by the true story of …
I would not have thought that a play about dreadful disaster could be done as a droll and delightfully dark comedy, but Playwright Gabrielle Reisman did. Having lived through Hurricane Katri…
Though it has commonly been staged as a tragedy or psychological drama since its Moscow premiere, Anton Chekhov always insisted that The Cherry Orchard was a comedy. A story about an aristoc…
What does the American songbook mean to you? For many, I'm sure it brings to mind those delightful tunes of old with their lilting melodies, simple lyrics, and squeaky clean imagery. If you …
Let's be clear, Pericles is pretty much a first draft play that Shakespeare never quite finished. Now to be fair, the work is not wholly attributed to him, but with more than a few murderous…
Marking its first production of a work by the internationally-lauded Dublin-born playwright Marina Carr, Irish Repertory Theatre's New York premiere of Woman and Scarecrow, potently directed…