On the positive side, there's nothing "scaled down" about the Kennedy Center's latest Broadway Center Stage series presentation of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's 2008 steamrolling tearjerker Ne…
If Silent Sky is an example of what has led Lauren Gunderson to be (as the program for the production states) the "most produced living playwright in America," it is easy to understand why s…
America "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and returning him safely to the earth," said John Kennedy, in whose building thi…
Washington balletgoers rarely get to see the National Ballet of Canada so it is a special treat when this extraordinary company performs at the Kennedy Center, as it is now through Sunday, F…
The National Ballet of Canada presented an exotic bouquet of contemporary choreography Tuesday by William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, and Alexei Ratmansky. The works, all but one performed to mus…
Love and death, murder and ghosts will raise their occasionally ugly but dramatically satisfying heads in Rep Stage's 2020-2021 four-play season, the company announced Friday. The Rep Stage …
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006, was a real-life Cinderella story for its creators and young cast. Despite unconventional origins"a…
What if happiness was not only a choice, but a side effect? That's the intriguing premise of Deborah Zoe Laufer's play Be Here Now, which she also directs with depth and quirky humor at Ever…
Are there any two more painful and provocative words in the English language than "what if"? Steven Dietz's Bloomsday is a sensitive time-bending romance looking at one consequential day…
RS24 feels as though it takes place in Washington, DC in an era when the city was still known as Chocolate City and Egyptian Musk incense wafted through every record store and head shop in t…
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in elementary school back in the '50s, and had their first taste of musical success as teens, performing as the duo, Tom & Jerry. They were signed to the…
Beneath differing customs and languages, are people basically the same? Playwright Yussef El Guindi makes a strong case with his unique and endearing romantic comedy Pilgrims Musa & Sher…
Carey Perloff's opening scene of the staged adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's shattering novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, moves with breathtaking beauty. Two women in one direction and a man i…
Am I wearing the right shirt? Is the bottle of wine I brought too cheap? Should I go in for the kiss at the end of the night? These are common questions running through the mind of your aver…
What do you do when nobody's buying what you're selling? Change what you're selling. The long-running Broadway production of Kinky Boots closed last spring, but Toby's brings back the happy …
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has had a whirlwind last few years since her play Pipeline premiered in 2017. In that span of time, she's managed to begin her tenure as a Residency 5 playwrig…
Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years,  played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. More production photo…
From Ford's Theatre " Save on tickets to Silent Sky at Ford's Theatre"a captivating play by Lauren Gunderson about trail-blazing astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. A decade before women g…
It seems like just yesterday that Matthew Bourne's groundbreaking reinterpretation of a classic triggered gents to walk out at the sight of two men partnered and young girls to cry when conf…
"The plot is certainly thin," said one grouchy-looking woman as she left Folger Shakespeare Theatre's new staging of the Bard's Merry Wives of Windsor. But the friend she was talking to was …
It was a rare pleasure to share the stage at the Smithsonian Institution's S. Dillon Ripley Center less than a week ago with colleagues who are also in the business of reviewing the performi…
There is something very refreshing about being an audience to theatre outside of a theater. 4615 Theatre Company is proving, as did the bar hopping runaway hit The Smuggler late last …
"Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me." That's what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us from he…
Bethesda-based Round House Theatre will be staging the groundbreaking musical Spring Awakening under the direction of Alan Paul. Previews begin January 22nd. Set in the late 19th century …