Revealing the holes in August Wilson's 'Fences' by Peter Marks

Ford's Theatre revives longtime August Wilson crowd-pleaser, but it's talky and lackluster.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 3:24pm on October 3, 2019☆⚑

Miranda and company devise raps on the spot. And you're in your happy place. by Peter Marks

Hip-hop improv show "Freestyle Love Supreme" comes to Broadway.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06pm on October 2, 2019☆⚑

In 'The Great Society,' history marches numbingly on, and on, and on, and on by Peter Marks

Robert Schenkkan's second Broadway play about LBJ sputters to a disappointing end.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:12pm on October 1, 2019☆⚑

A giddy poet lights up 'Candida' by Celia Wren

George Bernard Shaw's eloquent rom-com muses and amuses at Undercroft Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33am on October 1, 2019☆⚑

The crazy, joyful, uninhibited moves of the choreographer who is changing how we see dance by Sarah L. Kaufman

Ryan Heffington, who created the moves in "Chandelier" and the "Transparent" musical finale, wants to shake your world. And you.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:06am on September 27, 2019☆⚑

How chill can Broadway get? Lin-Manuel Miranda and company throw down some 'Freestyle Love' to find out. by Peter Marks

The hip-hop improv show has its official opening Oct. 2 at the Booth Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 1:06pm on September 26, 2019☆⚑

Good grammar is essential to the D.C. judicial history lesson that is 'Trying' by Celia Wren

Joanna McClelland Glass's 2004 play gets an intimate, workmanlike production from 1st Stage.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 5:24pm on September 25, 2019☆⚑

Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too by Peter Marks

Jocelyn Bioh's 'African Mean Girls Play' launches Round House's renovated theater.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 3:03pm on September 24, 2019☆⚑

Mike Birbiglia's latest one-man show continues his habit of confessional comedy by Thomas Floyd

At the National Theatre, 'The New One' explores the comedian's fear of fatherhood.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24am on September 24, 2019☆⚑

It's a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson's 'Jitney' at Arena. by Peter Marks

Production directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson reincarnates a Tony-winning 2017 revival.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 3:33pm on September 21, 2019☆⚑

'Cats' the musical proves again it has way more than nine lives by Sarah L. Kaufman

Powerfully sung and flashy, the touring version of the 2016 Broadway revival is at the Kennedy Center through Oct. 6.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 4:18pm on September 20, 2019☆⚑

Woolly Mammoth's new artistic director brings Pulitzer-winning 'Fairview' to D.C. by Thomas Floyd

The bold interrogation of race in America opens the theater company's 2019-2020 season.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 9:18am on September 19, 2019☆⚑

This play aims to make you uncomfortable. And that's a good thing. by Peter Marks

Woolly Mammoth Theatre guides Jackie Sibblies Drury's "Fairview" to a sublime D.C. debut.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 6:48pm on September 16, 2019☆⚑

Only in D.C.: Article 1 of the 14th Amendment is an applause line by Peter Marks

Writer-performer Heidi Schreck brings her moving and funny "What the Constitution Means to Me" to the Kennedy Center.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:54pm on September 13, 2019☆⚑

A bar. An actor. And if you're lucky, a drink. by Peter Marks

Irish-oriented theater company Solas Nua mixes drams and drama in staging "The Smuggler" at a D.C. bar.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 2:42pm on September 12, 2019☆⚑

Heidi Schreck turns the page as 'What the Constitution Means to Me' comes to Kennedy Center by Thomas Floyd

The Tony-nominated show moves from Broadway to the nation's capital, having nearly played at Woolly Mammoth Theatre earlier this year.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 8:12pm on September 11, 2019☆⚑

'Love Sick' strums the strings of passion, but not as dynamically as it could by Peter Marks

Theater J stages Ofra Daniel's song cycle in its East Coast premiere.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 1:36pm on September 11, 2019☆⚑

The Folger turns one of Shakespeare's histories into a problem play by Peter Marks

The classical company stages a lifeless version of "Henry IV, Part 1."

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18pm on September 10, 2019☆⚑

'Doubt' covered child abuse in the church a decade and a half ago. It's still relevant. by Peter Marks

Studio Theatre handsomely revives John Patrick Shanley's Tony-winning drama.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 1:54pm on September 9, 2019☆⚑

Bob Dylan, bare-chested swans, a dancer in her 80s: Two unorthodox 'Swan Lakes' for today by Sarah L. Kaufman

Michael Keegan-Dolan and Matthew Bourne knock the classical ballet sideways.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 1:54pm on September 4, 2019☆⚑

In this Kit Kat Klub, there's a little less sleaze but just enough sizzle by Celia Wren

"Cabaret" at Olney Theatre Center captures a society's disastrous and willful moral myopia.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 1:54pm on September 4, 2019☆⚑

What the Constitution means to Nancy Pelosi and Barbra Streisand, among other Americans by Peter Marks

With Heidi Schreck's popular play coming to the Kennedy Center, some people aren't shy about critiquing the Founding Fathers' work.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 8:24am on September 4, 2019☆⚑

'Hercules' proves strong enough to lift all of Central Park, but only for a few days by Peter Marks

The Disney-bred musical brings pros and amateurs onstage courtesy of the Public Theater.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 4:42pm on September 3, 2019☆⚑

Mixing drinks and spinning tales in the one-man show 'The Smuggler' by Geoffrey Himes

The show takes place at the Allegory, a bar in the Eaton Hotel.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 4:06pm on August 29, 2019☆⚑

Lynn Nottage's comic 'Fabulation' maps a slide down the social ladder by Celia Wren

As a fallen P.R. star, actress Felicia Curry drives the satire.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 3:06pm on August 28, 2019☆⚑