Despite period costumes, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail feels current, primarily because it is so topical. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play in 1969, but George Mason's produ…
By Kylie Miller Cohesion Theatre Company opened their third production of the season with La Llorona by Cecelia Raker and The Orphan Sea by Caridad Svich, which are playing in repertory. The…
Nederlands Dans Theater makes its Kennedy Center debut April 4-6. Artistic director Paul Lightfoot brings a program of distinctive works: "Shoot the Moon" (Glass/León & Lightfoot), "T…
The inspiration for Migratory Tales comes from multiple sources, according to the play's creator and director, Leslie Jacobson. Our current and painfully divisive debate on immigration was f…
The orchestra that makes its home in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall has only had one American music director in the last two generations. So it's easy to forget that the 100-strong band is,…
In the current American climate of daily accusations of "fake news," public denials of misdeeds, not-so-secret cover-ups of illegal activities, and arbitrary job terminations of public offic…
In this era of #MeToo, a review of the New York City Ballet can't begin without noting the allegations of abuse against now-retired Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins. Late last year, the …
A young Chinese-American woman identified in the playbill as "Twenty-one" but named Jamie (Linda Bard) is attempting to use her MacBook to contact her dead younger brother through a video ch…
Ford Theatre's The Wiz, the Tony-Award-winning musical based on L. Frank Baum's novel, will leave you enthralled, amazed, and bedazzled. The show is a cornucopia of colors, dancing, singing,…
A mash-up of classical music with classic rock, Rocktopia, co-created by vocalist Rob Evan (of New York stage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra fame) and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer (a not…
Studio Theatre's take on Translations by Brian Friel (1929-2015) is one crackling fine production. It begins as an intellectually stimulating comedy, then ultimately turns tragic after weavi…
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” – James Baldwin Southern humor, gentle charm, and the awkward…
London's blockbuster National Theatre production of Angels in America – Tony Kushner's sweeping two-part eight-hour epic about AIDS, politics, and gay life in America in the 1980s " ha…
For this writer, Grace Gonglewski as Paulina in the Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is one rock solid, indispensable presence. As the bravest truth-teller in T…
Moon Over Buffalo, written by Ken Ludwig, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, directed by Larry Simmons and produced by Maureen Rogers. Moon Over Buffalo is a farce in the Shakespearean tra…
There's nothing fake about the news out of Toby's Dinner Theatre. Its homegrown production of Newsies gathers such a concentration of explosive male talent under one roof that Columbia might…
W.A. Mozart's opera, Le nozze di Figaro, came to life last night in the Hartke Theatre. Based on Beaumarchais's scandalous and once-banned play, it depicts intrigue, class conflict, and dome…
Review by Betsy Lizotte Heather Frank's solo cabaret of witty observations about the state of social interactions in a perplexing, high-tech world, combined with songs that she personally se…
A nominally ecclesiastical work written by an essentially non-religious man, the Verdi Requiem has come, in the nearly century and a half since its completion, to be beloved by church-goers …
A tapestry of poetry, chant, music, and dance drawn from a swath of the ancient Silk Road has provided vivid inspiration for influential choreographer Mark Morris. His re-envisioning of Layl…
Celebrating 10 years since taking Broadway by storm with its exploration of New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, In the Heights, directed by Stephanie Klemons, takes the stage at…
Shrek is one of the most enigmatic modern musicals. A work of two of American theatre's greatest living authors, David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, it has some outstanding moments; "Bi…
Cirquelesque is coming to Charm City! Some of New York's finest circus/boylesque artists are coming this weekend to perform at Boys Night – All Male Cirquelesque Revue this Saturday ni…
Dewey Finn, the schleppy hero of School of Rock, is a modern-day Maria Von Trapp, leading children to find happiness through music. While posing as a substitute teacher, he shares his passio…
Nanna Ingvarsson is so phenomenal in these three harrowing short plays by Samuel Beckett that one can easily imagine the Nobel Prize-winning minimalist"notoriously persnickety about his stag…