Enchantment awaits those who enter Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's wildly inventive, darkly comic thicket of life lessons sprung from children's fairy tales in a new revival at Ford's The…
The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast at f…
Michael Bobbitt, a director, choreographer and playwright who has served as Adventure Theatre MTC's Artistic Director for nearly twelve years, will leave the company in July to become Artist…
Theater J, its old stage at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center completely refurbished, will offer a slate of six new(or new-ish) stories about older (or ancient) events for its 2019-20…
Baltimore's Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is presenting Henry IV, parts One and Two in repertory. Part One (not reviewed by DCTC, we regret) opened February 15th, Part Two opened March 15th…
Topdog/Underdog from WSC Avant Bard is an emotionally charged wonder that leaves no stone unturned or scab safely covered. The trailblazing story by Suzan-Lori Parks rips off the social …
You're never too young to be taken to the theatre. And you're never so young that you shouldn't expect a lot from the theatre that is aimed toward you. That seems to be the proposition behin…
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks' bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, White Noise, at the Pub…
If breakups were only confined to the couple in question, life would be easier. Throw friends, children, potential new partners into the mix and it really takes a village to visit Splitsvill…
Pre-dinner martinis turn into two bottles of champagne, which turn into nightcaps of Benedictine. The alcohol just keeps flowing during Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, and things get more an…
Yiddish theatre in New York around the turn of the century was vibrant: in the small Bowery theaters, Jews of all nationalities and branches of Judaism came to watch shows full of emotion an…
I had a wonderful time at The Watsons Go to Birmingham " 1963, a Theater for Young Audience's world premiere Kennedy Center commission, on stage at the Center's Eisenhower Theater through Ma…
Most of us are uncompromising in our youth, and, buffeted by the winds of time and experience, grow smooth and mellow in our old age. In that sense, John Quincy Adams lived his life backward…
Only one week ago, Washington National Opera gave us a cool, minimalist modern take on a romantic opera (Eugene Onegin); this week the company took us back to an old world, even hedonistic a…
Was Anton Chekhov touched with the gift of prophecy when he wrote the first of his four major plays, The Seagull? Or, even rarer, with self-awareness? The piece, which begins with a disastro…
Two shows about music " one an Outer Critics Circle Best Musical awardee; the other a show about the awfulest music ever " will bookend Rep Stage's 2019-2020 Season, which will also include …
Stephanie Ybarra's first season as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage will be full of new stories from fresh artists but will also include one of the oldest stories in all of theate…
When two highly engaging performers are saddled with less than dynamic material, you can at least revel in their onstage chemistry and delightful voices. Even the design work attempts to ele…
If every copy of August Strindberg's Miss Julie spontaneously combusted, and from each pile of ashes emerged phoenix-like a copy of Hilary Bettis's Queen of Basel in its place, I could be pe…
My sister asked me what play I was going to see as we wrapped up our phone call. "Oh, it's a musical about one of those contests where people stand around a truck and the last person who tak…
I'm a sucker for Shakespeare. And having lived on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and enjoyed many events at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the opportunity to participate in an "imm…
It amazes me how much the We Happy Few theatre company is able to accomplish through their signature, minimalist approach, and their production of Macbeth exemplifies this. With a cast of fi…
The wait of thirty years came to an end Saturday night when Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin returned to Washington in a spare yet stunningly beautiful production. The minimalist 'box' set …
It's a rare gift for a play to present a despairing character with both lightness and the sincerity he deserves. Silent and its subject, Tino, are by turns funny, bleak, and feverish, but al…
The magic and artistry of Pablo Picasso shine through in this fun-filled family show at GALA. Playwright director Cornelia Cody brings his talent to life through stories, music, dance an…