As it opens, The Speed Twins makes no bones about were you are: Dyke Heaven! A purgatory of sorts, set up like a seedy bar reminiscent of London's now shuttered Gateways Club, where a dru…
Cuba is flush with artistic richness but because of travel limitations over the years, few Americans have been able to experience the abundance of great painters and performing artists that …
To director Rachel Chavkin, her revival of Caryl Churchill's early play about the English Civil War is a well-timed political work about a failed revolution, whose characters may insp…
Candide is one of those hybrids (opera/Broadway show) that seemed so radical and ungainly a child when it first appeared in 1953 that it shocked and raised the critical ire of many. No one w…
 A Musical Director collaborates with the Stage Director to set the musical framework then works painstakingly with both singer-actors and instrumentalists, blending sound so that everyth…
Constellation is back again with some of its finest signature work, with sweeping, epic tales told with large casts and innovative theatrical magic, and beautiful production value. I've seen…
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has devised a 2018-2019 season designed to set you up with prize-winning plays and classics, and then blow you away with acclaimed fresh works, including t…
A choreographer paints with bodies in space and in so doing, brings high wattage to a theatrical work. Take Five! with Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographers Dell Howlett, Denis Jone…
The RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) has breezed into town (for a few days only) with its fresh, strikingly handsome, and wonderfully creative production of Hamlet. Simon Godwin, the play's y…
Washington, especially the State Department it seems, wants to get back its swagger (sic.) No need to look further than taking a cue from the newly landed stellar body in our midst, baritone…
Sam Shepard's obituary in the New York Times describes his plays as hallucinatory, though his Pulitzer Prize finalist, True West, is relatively close to naturalistic. Critics often count …
Time has long moved past the actual date of George Orwells’ classic novel, 1984, yet the future it envisioned when written in 1948 seems more prescient than ever. Director Robert McNam…
It is 2011, and we are in a tattered 4th-floor walkup in Maspeth, Queens. The lights bathe a gigantic poster of Derek Jeter, a Hall-of-Fame quality shortstop who played for the New York …
Directors call everyone together. They first create a safe place for everyone to explore the text and what they can bring to it. They are the shamans, shape-shifting their own presences " so…
Alice in Wonderland is so well known that it's easy to forget the original two books"Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass"were written in 1865 in Queen Victori…
There are few topics more horrifying and less funny than one's parents' sexuality. But Qui Nguyen, one of the hottest American playwrights of the moment, has embraced the embarrassment of pa…
Arena Stage's world-premiere musical Snow Child tries to be many things at once"the personal story of a married couple struggling to cope with the loss of a child; a fairy tale incorporating…
Keegan’s 2018-2019 season will begin next September with a reprise — of John Strand’s Lincolnesque, which Keegan first ran in 2009. A young Congressional aide, desperate to…
Adventure Theatre MTC's production of Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt is  a bounty filled with madcap fun and laughter. The fact that it's part of a seven…
Designers enliven the dark stage with light, color, texture and sound. Take 5! with designers: Alejo Vietti, Cory Pattak, Debra Kim Sivigny, Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden, Helen Q Huang, Ja…
Take out the words, and it turns out you can make Shakespeare's most violent play even more brutal and terrifying. With Titus Andronicus, Synetic Theater has created a vicious, disturbing…
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope's saloon a…
Based in Galway, Irish theatre company Druid is known for its epic productions of large-scale works such as DruidSynge, all six John Millington Synge plays performed in a single day, DruidMu…
Girlfriend, a distinctly gay love story built around a specific alt-rock album, delivers a universal narrative of first time young love and the music that makes the teen years survivable. Ji…
Actors are Mediums, channeling the voices of the playwright and director through their bodies and psyches to etch a character indelibly into an audience's memory. Actors responding: Ales…