Monday night was opening, and it all came together beautifully. I am deeply aware that I am representing cats everywhere and hope that people will consider that cats are not just lazy animal…
Spiraling in, and spiraling out: two opposing journeys are on offer in a pair of hour long Pinter plays, directed by Shakespeare Theatre's Artisic Director, Michael Kahn, in his second-to-la…
I’m no believer in astrology or the arcane arts. And a production that bills itself as part vaudeville, part carnival ride? The last thing I expected was to be moved to tears. But that…
With a title like Love and Information, Forum Theatre's newest show grants itself a wide warrant, delivering quite a bit of the former and volley after volley of the latter. The show really …
Black People's Houses might be this play's title if it were a play written today and set in DC. That title would probably give a better sense of how provocative and satirical it is. Concerne…
You think you're in for a reenactment of a historical night of American theater, but then The Cradle Will Rock gets rolling and before long you're plunged into a musical production from Iron…
Rectangles of Astroturf. A leafless blue tree branch, a standing lamp. Four very, very good actors and a script by playwright Amelia Roper. That’s all Taffety Punk Theatre needs to sho…
There are hardly any travelling salesmen now, and yet we are almost all Willy Loman. We remember the home run we hit to win the big game in high school, when in fact we rode the bench at P.S…
“Every character in the Forum production was invented in rehearsal. We worked on how many characters should be in each scene (where not specified), who the characters are, what is thei…
Georgia Snow of The Stage broke the news that Kwame Kwei-Armah, once his tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage ends this June, will become Artistic Director of The Young Vic …
Hey, DC theatre fam, Jon Jon here, with an interview from some key players in I KILLED MY MOTHERÂ by Andras Visky closing this weekend at Spooky Action Theater. I took some time to speak w…
"We aren't playing it for comedy, but you don't actually play comedy for comedy anyway.” Michael Kahn (who is, as most readers will know, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Theatre Compa…
We were in the closing moments of my talk with Michael Kahn, then in the midst of directing two Pinter one acts. Given his recent announcement that he will leave Shakespeare Theatre Company …
"Kids these days," or so I'm told, use “extra” as an adjective to denote that something is more than what is usual, expected, or necessary. As a noun, it means a person hired dai…
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
Thrilling whisker-tingling moment to be inside the Lansburgh Theatre at last. I was met at the door and escorted to my private dressing room. There was my name on the door. It's spacious…
There came a point toward the end of How I Became a Pirate (which opened this weekend at Adventure Theatre MTC) when, during an ensemble musical number, my eyes were darting from one part of…
Nothing succeeds like excess, Oscar Wilde once wrote, and nowhere is that more true than in America. We are the land that invented competitive eating; when the Olympics finally welcomed prof…
Adventurous DC theatre-goers, act now. You have but two more opportunities to see something unique and artistically gratifying: The National Theatre of Ghana performing its version of Tennes…
When the expressive Erin Granfield sings about Iowa, drawing out each letter and syllable, you learn everything you need to know about her character's quiet restlessness and pent-up longing.…
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
In theater circles, Dominique Morisseau is regarded as one of the most significant and talented African-American playwrights working today. Last year, she made the list of Top 20 Most Produc…
A year-long international celebration of the life of Leonard Bernstein called "Bernstein at 100" received its official launch at a memorable, one-night-only show Bernstein on Broadway in …
Your mission: Venture to the land of Adams Morgan until you see a temple at 16th and Fuller. From Fuller turn right at Mozart Place, past the construction, into the auto-gated parking lot. T…
Two plays in one: a well-observed drama about a woman's mid-life crisis, and an academic and occasionally comedic delve into the complexities of feminist theory. Peter's Alley Theatre Produc…