Double Dutch equals freedom. A character in She A Gem, on-stage at The Kennedy Center's Family Theater through Feb. 24th, says that, or something to that effect, early in the hour-long show.…
The Washington theatre community is in shock today as news is spreading that Kevin Laughon, performer and multi-talented theatre technician, left a message on Facebook early this morning…
Filled with down home moaning blues sprinkled with glittering magical realism, Thunder Knocking on the Door is packing the house at Creative Cauldron. In a small southern Alabama town, a…
Despite its premiere date of February 14, Among the Dead is not a Valentine's Day play. Written by Hansol Jung, a world-traveling playwright and director from South Korea, Among the Dead is …
We knew about autism in 1947, when Ruth and Augustus Goetz translated Henry James’ “Washington Square” to the stage as The Heiress, but we understood it only as a sum-zero …
Director David Muse's Richard the Third is clearly rendered, scored to propulsive industrial rock and sets itself apart from previous productions by a series of grisly execution scenes, b…
Temperatures dropped sharply inside the Kennedy Center last night; they rose again exponentially. There were other, sometime violent, meteorological disturbances. In short, in the space of 8…
Confession time: When I fell in love with theatre, I really fell for Cyrano, Roxanne, Christian and their heady love triangle. And the swashbuckling. And the language. Edmond Rostand's heroi…
Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Park has put runaways Huck and Jim back on a raft down the mighty Missisippi in a revamped version of the musical Big River, itself based on Mark TwainR…
The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, which has turned out professional actors for forty-three years, will no longer be affiliated with Studio Theatre after this summer, founder Joy Zinoma…
Imagine a mass of humans in a great hubbub and babble of conversation. It could be the House of Representatives before the gavel sounds, or the nave of a church in the moment before services…
Imagination Stage has put together a tasty spread of charming adventures in their musical production of Anatole: Mouse Magnifique. The show has a smorgasbord of delights that consider not on…
William Shakespeare will get two of the six slots in Simon Godwin’s debut season at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), along with four playwrights never before seen on STC’s stag…
Twentieth-century Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wasn't afraid to criticize Spain's government. Though Irma Correa’s El viejo, el joven y el mar is a fictional depiction of Unamun…
As a film, the tiny indie musical Once (shot over 17 days for a mere $150,000) was such an unlikely hit that it's easy to be cynical over whether a big-budget Broadway adaptation could captu…
BLKS at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company starts and ends with a scream, for reasons you cannot guess. Despite unexpected turns in the plot, you can count on BLKS to consistently provide a fron…
They say you should never meet your heroes, but what about crowd-surfing them? That was what I was thinking the night of February 8, as I helped keep John Cameron Mitchell aloft as he made h…
Billed as a workshop production to which the press was invited, Mosaic Theater Company's Shame 2.0 with Comments from the Populace opened Thursday night with all hands on deck in solidarity …
If there was ever a time for a bit of cheek, it's now. We could all use some impudent humor, especially of the female variety. And there's no better place than the august Folger Theatre, whe…
The DC Area's artistic community has seen the rise and fall of many theatre companies. As the cost of space rentals in DC increase, we see fewer and fewer performing spaces for theatres with…
On Valentine's Day this year, Arena Stage will open The Heiress, adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square by playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz. While the play may se…
A lone figure stood in the spotlight at the start of what I've come to think of as Washington's most sparkling gala event. In the Opera House space which could have easily swallowed her up a…
With a second summit between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, scheduled for the end of this month in Vietnam, the timing for John Feffer’s latest�…
Farce is not as easy to pull off as it looks. Add mounds of glorious text inspired by the freedom spouting French philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet, a.k.a Voltaire, and you've got quite …
Abrupt decapitations. A chatty, fiendish cat. Magical sorcery onstage and off. An epic costumed ball thrown by Satan himself. On its surface, The Master and Margarita doesn't seem like the e…