Reflections of a hard-headed son on the Round House Theatre production of August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned. As a theatrical production, August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learn…
A destination awaits for theater-goers ready for a high-quality evening taking in a marketplace of intriguing 10-minute plays. The destination is DC's ever-changing 14th Street and this year…
It was a day for the un-stuffy. I wanted to engage with something new and ambitious. I hoped to be left agog. Well, Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown is an overwhelming succ…
What was once a Richard Rodgers Award finalist the new musical, Crazy Mary Lincoln, receives an appealing, open-hearted, ardent regional premiere production from Pallas Theatre Collective. T…
The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else. King Lear, Act 3, scenes 4"5. Avant Bard's King Lear is a bracing, piercing production of a family and realm in heightenin…
With monikers like, Become Awesome and The Theatre for People Who Don't Think They Like Theatre, Flying V burst onto the DC-metro area theater scene. In 2015, Flying V received the Helen Hay…
It was an evening like few others in the company of of hundreds at The Kennedy Center on a recent evening. What took place was a performance meant to strike a hot chord for cultural and poli…
Creative Cauldron continues to dazzle critics and audiences with its "Bold New Works for Intimate Stages" – Â a series of premier musicals. It is certainly rare when a smaller profes…
Signature Theatre's production of Jesus Christ Superstar is an impressive beauty of a rock musical. It successfully takes a Biblical phrase such as, "Let us lift up our heart with our hands …
The Arts Council of Fairfax County announced a $5,000 Strauss Artist Grant award to Falls Church-based theater designer Margaret (Margie) Jervis. Jervis, a Falls Church native, is the reside…
Undone by his own goodness? Ha! That is not what I took away as director Robert Richmond succeeded masterfully with his contemporary, blasting grenade of an interpretation for Shakespeare's …
Haunting is the word that quickly came to mind as I sat, mesmerized, rediscovering a classic of literature I thought I knew from reading print on a page and from the movies. But, oh my, Syne…
Launching an anthology of stories entitled Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors to benefit the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the professional story-telling group, Better Said Than…
New theater voices, heard in their own language and accessible to a wide audience. In a world-class area full of strivers like the DC metro area, it is about time. This admiring column is ba…
The revolution will not be televised. Nope, it is on stage at Round House Theatre with a playful, headlong charge of a wild comedy. The comedy is called OR, a fictionalized account of fre…
Once again, Artistic Director Helen Murray and The Hub Theatre are producing a seductive play meant to kindle sparks for adventurous theater-goers. The Hub is constantly on the hunt for smal…
Oh, what fine comic talent and an attuned director can do to bring pleasure. Under the sure hands of NextStop's Evan Hoffmann and a talented six-member ensemble, there is enjoyable life to a…
The premise seems full of possibilities. With its moody Twin Peaks-like, arched eyebrow attitude, Midwestern Gothic tackles wasted lives, a randy adolescent woman who is questioning the "why…
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. ― Homer, The Iliad, ‘Book 22’ (Tr. R.…
This is the second installment of In the Moment columns focusing on the Pipeline Playwrights. Pipeline Playwrights is a small collective of accomplished Northern Virginia women playwrights. …
Another superior night with Irish playwright Connor McPherson, this time at Scena Theatre under Robert McNamara's illuminating, layered direction of McPherson's earthy, sideward glance at da…
Glorious! Dazzling! Verve! Bursting at the seams with voices and stories of America's humanity and originating dreams. These are the words I felt as Ragtime, now at Ford's Theatre, unfolded …
At a comfortable table at Alexandria's Extra Perks Coffee Shop and Café, I had the happy opportunity to spend some delightful one-on-one time with The Gin Game‘s playwright D. L…
An ensemble is very key to the success of a theatrical production. Whenever I go to a theater performance, I make sure to take in those who, while not in the spotlight, still pack a vi…
Nu Sass' latest Small Batch production is Howard Zinn's one-actor Marx in Soho. It is another highly successfully, nervy production by Nu Sass with it mantra, "strong women, great theatre." …