There's something risky about going to a show billed as improvisational and includes audience participation. The press release states: "Audiences can expect an entirely different show every …
The McLean Community Players' production of "Heathers: The Musical" (book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe) is really good. Though it was hampered by some technical iss…
For the first time in its 24 years in existence, Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting the final performances of the STC Academy's Master of Fine Arts program on one of the theatre's mai…
"Jersey Boys" is the mega-hit musical that tells the story of one of the most successful rock groups of the 60s, Frankie Valli and the Four Season. They went head to head with the Beatles wi…
Featuring Something for Everyone, From Comedy to Drama, Musical Theater to Horror, Area Premieres to Familiar Favorites he Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce its 28th season in 2024-2025,…
David Kaye excels as a monologue virtuoso in this fifty-minute solo performance at the Fringe Festival. While the pace occasionally lags, it is not due to any fault of his. Rather, the scrip…
Annapolis, MD"Compass Rose Theater, Annapolis' longest-running professional theater and nonprofit theater education organization, proudly announces its highly anticipated 2024-25 season. Thi…
Classic Theatre of Maryland's production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a perfect slice of summer. Written around 1595, Shakespeare's comedy endures, with the help of the de…
North Shore Theatre Productions, a D.C.-based company specializing in one-person performances through its Solo Classics Series, presents a chilling and captivating adaptation of H.P. Lovecra…
The title says it all. Tom Lehrer, the biting musical satirist who took on Jim Crow, the Catholic Church, and the nuisance of urban pigeons in a three-decade heyday spanning from the end of …
There is something about 19th century German teenagers casually cosplaying as rock stars while singing Duncan Sheik's pop-infused "Spring Awakening" score that reignites the soul. This strik…
"Next Level," written by and starring Elizabeth Cutler, is a charming work in progress about a woman who is a work in progress. Sophie, played with wry good humor by Cutler, is an "editor at…
A lot of people remember high school as the best time of their lives. In "The Wolves" at Spotlighters Theatre, we realize that high schoolers are dealing with big issues, whether those are p…
Felicia Curry, vocalist and a member of Everyman's Resident Company, presents an evening of cabaret entertainment in a return to the popular summer cabaret series which Everyman featured at …
A strange figure wrapped in a large tie-dye fabric (that doubles as a curtain) emerges from the wings. It creeps downstage and attaches itself to a second such figure. Suddenly, like an amoe…
School teachers can be wonderful guides to life for young people. The best ones teach lessons that last a lifetime. "Miss Nelson is Missing!," now playing at Imagination Stage, shows audienc…
"Democracy" is a strange, sketch comedy show that ostensibly "takes a look at democracy in a completely unbiased, highly partisan manner." If that is confusing, so is the show. It opens with…
One of the joys of Capital Fringe is the discovery of new talent. Caitlin Frazier, who just recently graduated from Georgetown University, proves herself to be a face to watch with "Re: Writ…
  People of a certain age will remember the movie on which the musical is based, but this production is not your grandparent's "Young Frankenstein." Very loosely based on Mary Shelle…
"Who Did It? An Improvised Murder Mystery" opened Capital Fringe Festival last year on the Theater J stage. In my review, I wrote that creator Erick Acuña's comedic whodunnit had flaws bu…
If there is one sure thing at Capital Fringe, it is Pinky Swear Productions (PSP). Even Founding Artistic Director Karen Lange, speaking to the audience just before this year's opening perfo…
Songs of the Goat, a company of actors who all came out of the Studio Acting Conservancy, makes its debut at Capital Fringe with a tight and haunting rendition of Euripides' "Medea." Directo…
If you have found yourself becoming bored of escaping into the Smithsonians for highly coveted air conditioning during this freakishly hot summer, why not try a different kind of museum? Stu…
"It's 1964! And we're rock 'n' roll writers!" exclaims a character roughly halfway through the musical. We don't have to wonder what an amazing time it must have been. Half of the people pac…
With "courage" as the central theme, audiences are pulled into a world of laughter, contemplation, bewilderment, elation, and confrontation in the short plays presented by Rapid Lemon Produc…