Ten years. Eighty-two productions — two hundred thirty-eight, if you count each short production separately. An Osborne Award. A Steinberg honor. Over fifteen hundred artists — a…
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. P…
You have until February 11th to see The Way of the World at Folger Theatre. Playwright Theresa Rebeck has rewritten the Restoration classic and directs a cast led by Kristine Nielsen. In par…
Watching a Baroque opera delivered by Ryan Brown and Opera Lafayette can feel like a refreshing "re-set" time-travel from warp-speed to the pace of a gently-moving skiff down a lazy river. E…
The future is female. The future is non-binary. The future is genderqueer. The future is trans. The future is queer. But before we reach the future, and while we strive in the present, it…
When a play grips your thoughts and continues to cling to them past the curtain call, then you know you've witnessed a treasure. The elements of 4,380 Nights blend together to generate a cap…
"Just what kind of man would abandon his son?" This is the central question writer/performer W. T. Allen has been asking in his twenty-year running play In Search of My Father …Â Wal…
Perisphere Theater refreshes Molière's classic Tartuffe with a skilled and playful cast. But you need be patient. The show digs itself a very deep hole in its first full scene, exhibiting m…
Overlong and undercooked, Highwood Theatre’s The Dog Must Die puts the stop in dystopia. This tale of a society in which something has gone terribly, terribly wrong begins promisingly …
Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein proves you don’t have to travel to New York or even as far as DC to get your Broadway Baby fix. Young Frankenste…
When the physical and sexual abuse at Chicago’s Profiles Theatre was brought to light, the theatre communities of America buzzed about. Here in DC, it shocked some , but for others…
Set in the time of the American Revolution, Jefferson’s Garden is the sweeping story of the immense struggle of our country’s founders, and the personal story of two people despe…
Whether or not you will enjoy Sovereignty at Arena Stage depends on why you value theatre. If you attend this show with the intent to learn, you will find it an incredibly enriching experien…
In 2007, Richard Henrich adapted the Ursula K. Le Guin book, The Lathe of Heaven, for a production at Spooky Action Theater, which he directed. But the show didn't completely fulfill his vis…
Theresa Rebeck, Kristine Nielsen, and The Way of the World "Are you twins? Sisters?" Theresa Rebeck and Kristine Nielsen were heading past a guard's desk at Folger Shakespeare Library when t…
Much of the fumbling journey of growing up as a teenager is done around other teenagers, not parents or other adults, at least in my experience. And the essence of that pubescent collective …
OK, so you’re Eric, a cop, played by Noah Schaefer, and you’re in charge of the highest-stakes stakeout of the year — the one which will get you off your desk duty and into…
Opera has a promising future, judging by this past weekend's plethora of riches delivered in the newly renovated Terrace Theatre at The Kennedy Center. As part of the American Opera Init…
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The debut production of Best Medicine Rep, a new theater company dedicated to comedy, is not really a comedy. The Consul, The Tramp, and America's Sweetheart, written by artistic director Jo…
Be honest with me: when you saw Michael Urie in his one-actor show, Buyer and Cellar, about working in Barbara Streisand’s basement, did you think “Hey, that guy should play Haml…
In a world where facts are malleable, the working government gets shut down, good people are without protection of the law, bureaucrats are colluding with the powerful and mad, and officials…
History books shroud World War II with specific imagery: soldiers, Nazi salutes, atomic bombs, Rosie the Riveter, and a victorious kiss from a sailor in Times Square. But See Rock City break…
This weekend a new opera, Proving Up, proved itself indeed " a chamber opera worthy for the 21st century. Born out of a spirit of inquiry, Proving Up is mysterious, mesmerizing, startling in…
“I hear you’re a son of a bitch," said Jerome Kern, introducing himself to a producer. "So am I.”  But he was one productive son of a bitch, composing more than 700 s…