This weekend, Laurel Mill Playhouse (LMP) will be doing two tributes. The first is to the wonderful Carol Burnett Show that graced our TVs from 1967-1978. The show included those wonderful c…
A light night of theater Repentance is not. In one uninterrupted dialogue that unfolds over the course of 90 minutes, Repentance tells a story of mental anguish, power games and abuse. Willi…
Four black men in their forties sit around a chess game in Dupont Circle park in 1980. They open the show singing barbershop-quartet style, an upbeat song about themselves: They are the 1342…
Let's get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil's Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat Haan, b…
Dancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy lifti…
"My employer is an asshole." Shakespeare said that. Ok, not exactly. But the Rude Mechanicals somehow fit the line seamlessly into Arden Now, their abbreviated and modified – yet still…
There are surprisingly few one-actor musicals. Even rarer: solo musicals where the protagonist juggles razor-sharp daggers. Make your one-actor, dagger-juggling musical about a lesbian circu…
Internet addiction is no laughing matter. However, for the talented team now lighting up the stage at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas, the Internet–and all the craziness it has produced&…
There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Franklin Dance's Aflight brings something special to Fringe. Usually based in Arlington, this group blends music, dance, and visual art in a way that i…
Proust may have had his mother's madeleine, but Juan Francisco Villa has his mother's empanada to stir up memories of his gritty, hard scrabble childhood in New York's City's Lower East Side…
Over the 65-minute run time of Caroline Bennett's Garbage Person Karaoke, there are moments of painful comedy and bitter emotional connections with that specific kind of heartbreak that kick…
A choose-your-own-adventure review " pick one of the following: a) I have little or no idea what the Burning Man festival is; b) I know about Burning Man, but have never been; c) I am a Burn…
Mia Amado, producer and director of Echoes, brings this piece about love and mental illness to the Eastman Theatre at Gallaudet. Echoes is by no means an easy play, in terms of e…
Willie Carlisle is an astonishing performer, and if I were only reviewing his performance of mountain folk music, I'd recommend this show with the entirety of my full heart. Guitar, b…
This show is a comedy inspired by a tragedy, Greek playwright Euripides'Â The Bacchae. In case it has been a while since you last refreshed your memory on the theatrical offerings of Greec…
Satire is a noble pursuit, but it can also be used as an excuse. Regardless of what a would-be satirist puts onstage, if you dislike it, he can say that your negative reaction is the point. …
If you've ever picked up a roommate from an online ad, you know that living with strangers can be, well, strange. In a world premiere from outer space-oriented Nu Puppis collective, that str…
For a taste of France and classic musical theatre, Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown is serving Lerner and Lowe's Gigi through August 5. It is a rarely produced musical, faithfully r…
Back at Manayunk's Venice Island Performing Arts Center, The Summer Club celebrated its third anniversary on a very hot night with an even hotter performance. With yesterday's total breakdow…
Madness is unleashed among the stoic marble and stone memorial markers of iconic Laurel Hill Cemetery as REV Theatre Company, directed by Rosey Hay, lends life force to the language of Shake…
Though her name is no longer on the lips of an adoring public, during the height of silent film and then early talkies, Clara Bow was The It Girl, the very personification of the carefree fl…
Not the first, not the second, but the third Joe Charnitski is here from New York to share his story of three lives, two eulogies, and getting out of a small town. Witty, humble, and invitin…
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." Hedgerow Theatre Company has found a way to make you feel like a world traveler without ever leaving Delaware County. Hedgerow's live…
Exit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O'Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson's pithy, ratatat meta r…
What was hidden away as a purposefully invisible sidebar of decades-old history, is brought to well-deserved notice by 1st Stage's inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performances. With Hick…