Splotches of brown mottle metallic girders on the set of "The Full Monty," the latest offering from the Keegan Theatre. The allusion to rust is apt enough: David Yazbek and Terrence McNally'…
You have to hand it to the characters in "Club de Caballeros (Rotos de Amor)/Gentlemen's Club (Love Torn)": Their romantic lives may be in free fall, but they don't sit around moping. Instea…
They may have the oldest bromance in recorded history, and you can watch them spar with a supernatural bull in Constellation Theatre Company's bold and colorful, if somewhat over-solemn, "Gi…
You have to maneuver artfully when you embark on a love affair. That truth sashays into the open with dashing verve and cynicism in the Studio 2ndStage production of "2-2 Tango," a short pla…
It can be disconcerting to have a sense of justice. No one knows this better than Lucy, the heroine of the children's play "The Magic Finger," now in a world-premiere run at Imagination Stag…
Choreographer Luis Salgado knows how Roberto Clemente felt about baseball. This fact reveals itself about 15 minutes into "DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story," the reverent, clunky bio-musical…
You can say this for the lovers and servants in "The Lady Becomes Him," Faction of Fools Theatre Company's exhaustingly antic farce: They are one up on Frodo Baggins. That determined hobbit …
Brave, ingenious James Henry Trotter " of "James and the Giant Peach" fame " is larking it up with Mick Jagger, Diana Rigg and the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Okay, that is not …
Oxygen is a substance that feeds fire, so it seems apt that "Oxygen," Taffety Punk Theatre Company's theatrical concept album, should boast an intensity that smolders. For 70 relentless minu…
The Cheetos-eating Golem is not the quirkiest character in "A Man, His Wife, and His Hat," the audaciously kooky play by Lauren Yee: That honor goes to the exuberantly self-satisfied talking…
The metronome is getting its moment in the spotlight, and that's not such a good thing for Happenstance Theater, the company that put it there. In "Vanitas," the latest original work from t…
A peach that swells to the size of a house. Hunters who grow wings and fly, like the ducks they've been shooting. A teacher who flings small children out of the window. Sounds like delirium?…
The average whoosh doesn't get much respect. The whooshing sound of a washing machine in motion " that's banal. A just-cleaned dish towel whooshing onto the floor " that's annoying. And who …
No, Glen Echo Park has not turned achromatic. If it seems that way, it's because of the exuberant colors in "Three Little Birds," the children's reggae musical in a world premiere run at Adv…
If Travel + Leisure magazine were to run a feature on the most gruesome lodgings in America, the hotel room in Martin McDonagh's "A Behanding in Spokane" would surely top the list. Maybe not…
Death. Cameras. The misdeeds of a shadowy Norwegian shipping magnate. These areas of interest unite three damaged characters in the intriguingly enigmatic production "Bird in Magic Rain with…
Would that all houseguests provided as much entertainment value as Tomas, a character in Mexican playwright Antonio Serrano's "Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears)." As amusingly c…
The title of Bill Cain's drama, "9 Circles," alludes to the concentric regions of torment described in Dante's "Inferno." But given the emotional workout actor Julian Elijah Martinez appears…
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An exhilarating sequence opens "The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century)," the flawed, if sometimes brilliant, ensemble-created work by the Massachusetts-based Double Edge Theatre. Now in a wo…
The characters in John Patrick Shanley's "Italian American Reconciliation" appreciate the minestrone at their local diner. Watching them relish their soup in the version of the play now at N…
"This is starting to feel like an Indiana Jones movie or something!" a character exclaims in Spooky Action Theater's "Kafka on the Shore." There is, certainly, a swashbuckling adventure elem…
Don't be deceived by that expletive basking in the title, or by the profanity-riddled sarcasm and bluster that is the characters' default communication mode: There's an element of romance in…
The empty picture frames that hover in the background of the Washington Stage Guild's "Tryst" seem ever more apt as this suspense drama unspools. For starters, George Love, the con man chara…
Somewhere, a savvy media mogul is surely planning a "Les Miserables" theme park, complete with a Sewers of Paris log-flume ride; a "Look Down! Look Down!" parachute drop; and a "Master of th…