Though he had a wide stylistic range, in America, Federico GarcÃa Lorca’s fame as a playwright is mostly limited to his rural tragedy, Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) which was orig…
Pipeline Playwrights, the Northern Virginia-based collective of accomplished women playwrights who support productions that explore the variety of women's experiences, continues its new seri…
The phrase "film noir" evokes both a particular sub-genre of the crime film as well as a particular era. Inspired by the moody expressionist dramas of the silent era that had come to an end …
"Clutch my pearls!" one audience member remarks toward the end of Nameless Theater's motel-room drama, Honey, which has at least three throat-clutching twists during its less than 30-minute …
Life's a bitch especially for those struggling with the angst of life — in this particular case, the characters of the world premiere opera Florida from UrbanArias. Now please don't st…
Eighties and Nineties nostalgia is big right now. Adults newish to marriage and mortgages and over the hump of deciding to spend the $10 in their wallet on laundry or beer are starting to da…
There is always a good reason to see Tonya Beckman perform, and she is a superb Don Juan. Her rendition of the famous seducer is beguiling but at the same time horrifying, like watching a pa…
In the second production of their 2017-2018 season, UrbanArias brings the world premiere of Florida to the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Based partly on true events, Florida follows the 16-y…
If you've ever witnessed (or worse yet, experienced, encouraged, or participated in) the "girl-on-girl crime" of high-school cliques, malicious gossip, fierce competitiveness, and vicious ba…
What do you get when you cross the super-popular hits Wicked and Frozen with a Boston accent? The laugh-out-loud musical parody Wicked Frozen, presented by John Lant and making its Off-Broad…
Top and Bottom" written by Kevin Michael West, directed by Christopher Janson and produced by the Rainbow Theatre Project" is a unique comedy exploring the ways in which people express thems…
The opening night performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by the Vagabond Players in America's oldest continuously operating theater in historic Fells Point turned out to be a fes…
“What the fuck was that?” a friend asked me at the opening night reception for this show at Woolly. To which, still reeling, I could only answer, “Yeah, what the fuck?̶…
The 1986 Tony Award best musical winner is playing in DC, and it has one different detail from any other production you've ever seen before: a symphonic metal score. Created by Landless Thea…
Colonial Players' production of Lucky Stiff is a fun romp of a musical. First performed in 1988, with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, this production, directed …
There are potholes in the road not taken. So discover many of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn, now being presented by the Maryland Ensemble Theater (MET) in Freder…
From start to finish, Paper Dolls is a wildly entertaining and unapologetic dramedy filled with biting contradictions, provocative imagery, and endearing characters that you can't help but r…
How can you unpack a show with as many racial, sexual, and historical bombshells as Underground Railroad Game? The conceit of the play (2017 Obie Award Winner, Best New American Theatre Work…
There's simplicity in truth. Arena Stage's Two Trains Running is August Wilson's simple truth about the African American experience during the 1960s urban renewal of inner-city Pittsburgh. B…
The Improvised Shakespeare Company is a performance that has been performed to sold out, jam-packed houses in its Chicago hometown since 2005, and in New York City, L.A., San Francisco…
Paper Dolls has such an open heart and such largesse of spirit that you might well leave the theater verklempt with hope. The play with songs by Philip Himberg, directed by Mark Brokow, tell…
"That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and …
Potted Potter, Potted Productions' rollicking parody of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, is full of toy snakes, terrible wigs, and boatloads of physical comedy. The audience plays Quiddit…
It's no coincidence that Matt Torney is directing Translations, the iconic Brian Friel play now on view at Studio Theatre. "It's a play I've wanted to do ever since I first saw it in B…
Aching and raw, sweet and lamenting, Hub Theatre's production of The Pavilion is a master class of three DC-area actors in command of playwright Craig Wright's lyrical, melodic language abou…