34 stories by "David Gerson"
If the production is more challenging than what one might expect, it is also more emotional and charming and intoxicating.
The show is overflowing with compassion and heart. It reminds us what the world could be.
R. Eric Thomas's world-premiere comedy is an homage to and sendup of TV shows that have shaped our collective memory.
With clever wordplay and brilliant sight gags, the laughs come fast and furious.
The actors are all in top form, but we don't learn enough about their characters to become invested in what happens to them.ÂÂ
No gift comes without a cost. And that lesson courses through every moment of Proof, David Auburn's very fine Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which is being given a thrilling revival at Everyma…
Sometimes you find a gem in an unlikely place. That happened to me recently at a small state-of-the-art black-box theatre on the campus of a boarding school on a quiet street in Arlington, V…
Miss Saigon is all grown up.  Sort of. It's been almost 30 years since Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's blockbuster opened in London's West End and took the world by storm. …
"You don't have use? You don't have power? They will erase you from your own story." -Larry Yee Lauren Yee has a problem. And it's kind of a big one. Not Lauren Yee the writer, whose very…
Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy opens on June 9, 2017, at Baltimore's Iron Crow Theatre. This production, a Baltimore premiere and the official show of Baltimore Pride 2017, closes out the larges…
I recently came back from London, where I saw the National Theatre's 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner's epic, Angels in America. I thought a lot about that play after seeing Wooll…
When it comes to musical theatre, there are two types of people: those who hate it and those who are obsessed with it. There is no in-between. And those obsessives, those for whom musicals a…
It may be more by chance, rather than design, that Everyman Theatre's production of Los Otros, with book and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh and music by Michael John LaChiusa, takes on an urgen…
Sinister things are lurking just below the surface at the "2018 Students for Life Conference" in Washington, DC, which is where Madeline Burrows' disturbing solo show Mom Baby God, about the…
When Una, the 27 year-old British woman at the center of David Harrower's startling and complex play Blackbird, tells a man named Ray, 15 years her senior, that he made her into a ghost, the…
"Are you a virgin?" You may be asked this by one of the cast members as you enter the theatre at The Motor House to see Iron Crow Theatre's raucous and riotous production of The Rocky Hor…
Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still, And she danced twice a day in vaudeville. So begins Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem “The Wild Party” about a gro…
Let's just get this out of the way. Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops (its full title is Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops; In Essence a Queer and Occasionally Hazard…
Nestled in the northwestern part of the island of Newfoundland, lies the small town of Gander. In 2001, the population of Gander was 9,651. On September 11, 2001, that population increase…
Here's a tip, the most exclusive performance venue in Baltimore isn't the Hippodrome or the Power Plant. It's not Centerstage or Everyman. If you're able to get in, and I suggest you try, th…
It is not easy to reinvent the wheel let alone attempt it, but that is exactly what the ambitious Annapolis Shakespeare Company has done, with generally fine results, in its fully staged rea…
Sometimes, what you think you don't want, is exactly what you need. And sometimes, comfort and joy are found in the unlikeliest of places. After a week which sent shockwaves through the coun…
Welcome to playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' world. You're just living in it. Or, is it, welcome to 19th Century playwright Dion Boucicault's world and Branden Jacobs- Jenkins is living in …
As I was leaving Round House Theatre on opening night of Ayad Akhtar's The Who and the What, I heard one patron say to another, "Wasn't that fabulous?" And the response was, "Yes." I'm not s…
The weather, like the five characters in Cori Thomas' tender romantic comedy When January Feels Like Summer, is in crisis. Attribute the unpredictable climate to global warming, but it's not…
