In these days of constant bombast and weaponized words, when sounding reasonable and wanting to be open to another person's point of view sounds almost quaint, Peter's Alley Theatre has t…
Spearheading a "season of community" and stimulating thought-provoking dialogue, Baltimore Center Stage headlines the first production of its 2017/18 span in electrifying fashion with rising…
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters, they want to know which tools; They never ask why build. — Anne Sexton, “Wanting to Die” Laura Rocklyn and Ty H…
The story of Cordelia Lynn’s Lela & Co. is a universal story, told across many borders and many nationalities, ethnicities, and races; during wartime and peacetime, at Super Bowls,…
"Every man on earth would kill for somethin'. Any says different " jus' ain't found out wha's worth killin' for yet."Â " Devil Anse Hatfield, in Sally McCoy In the middle of the night of A…
Just as you are taking down your Labor Day bunting and searching for last year's fall decorations, there arrives a bit of spooky mystery and merriment for the whole family to enjoy. The Mont…
Moral dilemmas feed the dark humor of Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday, directed by Jennifer Lyman. Marital infidelity, the loyalty of friendship, the eagerness of youth, and the logic of …
I, Peaseblossom, written by Tim Crouch and directed by Dan Hodge, is a fun, magical way to become more familiar with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The dreams of the fairy Peaseblo…
Winner of five Helen Hayes Awards last season, Theater Alliance’s production of Word Becomes Flesh is now playing at Anacostia Playhouse in an encore presentation that is garnering eve…
How is theatre superior to film or TV? What special magic is found in live performance? This question is superbly answered in Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, Ste…
As you enter through the gates and into the courtyard of historic Laurel Hill Cemetery, you are offered your choice of a complimentary cocktail with an appropriately lethal name, while liste…
The British statesman Winston Churchill coined the expression, "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." He was speaking of the Soviet Union. The quotation, however, also could…
What do you get when you mix over-the-top parody with uncensored vulgarity with pure poetry? The Groom's a Fag; The Bride's a Cunt; The Best Man's a Whore; and the Maiden of Honor (Just) Hun…
Threading a touch of Shakespeare with campy humor and artful absurdity, Fells Point Corner Theatre (FPCT) introduces its 30th anniversary season with a fun revival of Paul Rudnick's I Hate H…
Want to make one of the zaniest shows of all time even zanier? Just add Frank Ferrante. Ferrante has directed the Walnut's new production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a…
It's a zany self-referencing case of art imitating life in These Terrible Things, as the University of the Arts and The Berserker Residents team up for an absolutely hilarious parody of trai…
Airswimming, Charlotte Jones' play about two Englishwomen stuck in a mental institution for no good reason, walks " or should that be swims? " a fine line between sly humor and sensitivity. …
Cotton&Gold is a new play by writer/director Alyse M. Hogan, a 2017 University of the Arts graduate, and her company AMH Productions, which describes itself as "a new theater company loo…
A scarlet curtain lines the stage of the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London with a controversy lurking on either side. Outside, angry Londoners flood the streets protesting the 1833 Slav…
Friendship finds its way to the Fringe by way of Mary Tuomanen and Chris Davis in the form of a felicitous memory play, and is heartily welcomed! Mary and Chris have been friends for around …
By Natalie Graves Tucker The theater that brought you the Helen Hayes Award"winning show Word Becomes Flesh last year is walking the talk and following up with the Word Becomes Action Fes…
Home is the newest theatrical confection of Fringe favorite Geoff Sobelle, and a can't-miss part of the current festival. The first 70 minutes are a surrealistic delight. I recommend sitting…
On August 11th and 12th, a group of neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists thronged Charlottesville, Virginia. They were there to protest " peacefully, they'd said " the removal of a st…
Both laugh-out-loud funny and intensely affecting, The Greenfield Collective makes its powerful mark on the Fringe with Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please, an original work devised by Nicholas Sc…
Woolly Mammoth’s The Arsonists is not so much an entertainment, even though I laughed frequently, psychotically–and loud, as it is a paratheatrical event during which an absurd p…