Some believe that if we keep people who have died in our thoughts and words then they are not really dead. Well, if so, then last night lights were blazing and the world was happily peopled …
No other play now on area stages has been more enhanced by its soundtrack than Theater Alliance’s Still Life with Rocket.  Nielson’s underscored music, sound effects and so…
The idea for my show started 6 years ago after I attended a voice workshop, when one of the coaches told me that I would be good at doing cabaret; I never thought of doing that. At the t…
In my experience, there are two kinds of science fiction that tend to make their way to movie audiences: action blockbusters with a veneer of futuristic technology like The Terminator or The…
North Korea's nukes hurtle toward the U.S."targeting both rural and urban areas"and we've got 15 minutes left to live, all the while being "monitored" by an unknown Russian operative who ins…
Screens shaped like shards of broken glass splay the Theater J stage. Upon them the company, in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum, has projected photographs and home movies taken in Ge…
We all assume we see the world as it is, as everyone else sees it. That's not always the case. Numesthesia, this summer's Uncle Funsy Capital Fringe show, comically explores perception and r…
The Kennedy Center was alive with The Sound of Music on Friday night. Almost every seat was taken in the vast Opera House auditorium for the opening night of the latest Broadway-style tourin…
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep,” brags the Welsh mystic Owen Glendower, in Henry IV, Part 1. “Why, so can I, or so can any man,” retorts Hotspur. “But …
The box office for Capital Fringe has just opened, and, on this opening day, we begin our Fringe coverage with a preview of John Morogiello’s Blue Over You. Show prices range from $7 (…
I came across Blue Over You at the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest two summers ago and immediately fell in love with it. The story of Francis, this incredibly funny and difficult drama teacher, …
The Kennedy Center Thursday night featured Teutonic offerings across a wide spectrum. In the Concert Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra was performing Beethoven's Ninth. Next door at the …
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 42nd season will feature four mainstage plays, including two world premieres, as well as films, dance, and a weekend of solo shows. GALA will open its season wi…
In a moving memorial, director and co-conceiver Todd Kreidler uses solo actor Eugene Lee to call his friend and mentor's spirit back to the world. Playwright August Wilson seized the opportu…
Playwright A. R. Gurney died Tuesday, June 13, 2017 in his home in New York City. He was 86. A native of Buffalo, NY, the beleaguered city appeared as the setting for some of his 86 plays. �…
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On January 25, 1996, a new musical by an unknown writer who had tragically died the night before, opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, and the landscape of theater changed f…
Folger Theatres’ 2017-18 season, announced yesterday morning, will be full of plays by the usual gang: Shakespeare, Congreve, Shaw. But not everything will seem familiar. The theater t…
The Source Festival’s tenth birthday party is a subdued one, and this year’s lineup is but a shadow of Sources gone by. While we usually see three debuting full length plays, the…
Some plays are compelling because their dilemmas are so universal they provoke the shock of recognition in all of us. Disgraced is like that. Other plays are compelling because, though the c…
Among all the fraught issues which torment the tortured search for peace in the Middle East, none spark a greater intransigence on the part of the State of Israel than the Right of Return &#…
Who says theater is not educational? Why, just this past weekend I learned that "bootycandy" is a euphemism for the penis. Vocabulary expanded, thanks to playwright Robert O'Hara and Iron Cr…
Oberon, king of the fairies, has been challenged by his queen Titania to write a play to rival Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream without resorting to magic. But Oberon, though beautifu…
The timelessly wonderful Wizard of Oz still shimmers brightly. The familiar story that's over a century old delights with each well-remembered sight, sound and scene at Creative Cauldron…
In its tenth anniversary, CulturalDC's Source Festival has chosen to revisit one of its previous hits to celebrate, and has made the prime choice of Perfect Arrangement for this honor. It's …