600 stories by "David Siegel"
With gentleness and clear affection for an unexpected heroine, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine has written and directed with a disarming touch an endearing new play "with m…
Avant Bard's The Gospel of Colonus is a gorgeous, rapturous musical. Taking a phrase from the Bible, specifically Psalm 100, I found The Gospel of Colonus a "joyful noise" to witness and hig…
Come April 7th, it will be a full century since the United Stated entered World War I or The Great War as it was known until WW II came along. The Air and Space Museum here in DC is having a…
Synetic's The Taming of the Shrew is disarming, decadent and a great visual rush. It is also great, dialogue-free storytelling with its own edge and outlook. The Synetic production simply ca…
This year's Atlas Intersections Festival has a theme of "where the art world and the real world intersect. The Festival aims to "engage audiences and artists alike by sparking conversatio…
Northern Virginia is very much alive and supporting original play development by local playwrights. The diversity of the Northern Virginia demographic provides for fresh experiences to base …
George Mason University (GMU) launched its Year of Gilbert and Sullivan Celebration with a clever, bright, joyfully sung musical homage to the masterful Gilbert and Sullivan team and its …
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s (STC) production of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III is a stunner. It is a clever look into a usually unseen political hall-of-mirrors. It is also a most …
Ready for top-notch singing talent that brings the "blues" to vibrant, spicy full life? Then high tail-it to Creative Cauldron (Falls Church) to take-in a cabaret-like revue called Blues in …
I love being surprised when I go to theater. Recently, I went to a play, MetroStage's comely The Gin Game, and became totally smitten with the textures of its music design. It was a sound…
As DC area performing arts companies continue to grapple with advancing issues of social justice into the public realm in these stressful days, DC is certainly not alone. In 2015 the Ford…
Under the crafty direction of Alex Levy, 1st Stage's production of Trevor, penned by Nick Jones, had me in agreement with a recent American Theatre headline calling Jones the “Deadp…
We in DC theater community are constantly on the prowl for new voices with diverse mindsets and new plays on emerging issues to be open to the upcoming generation of possible theater-goers. …
Gaye Taylor Upchurch's appealing direction gives Folger Theatre's As You Like It a warm flirtatious essence with buffoonery galore masking over Shakespeare's initial soulful melancholic core…
A joy for a theater writer is to bring notice to young up-and-coming actors.  In the past year I have the good fortune to see Ethan van Slyke perform with several professional thea…
Zestful. Savvy. Crafty. Satisfying — Director Abigail Isaac Fine's feisty NextStop production of Shakespeare's battle-of-wits, romantic-comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a stimula…
Scena Theatre's Someone Is Going to Come is a tightly wound riddle about danger; the lightly concealed danger lurking in a couple's push-pull of a relationship that is further inflamed with …
How fortunate we are to have the In Series the past 2+ decades presenting a smart set mix of: innovative Pocket Opera, intimate Cabaret, and intriguing Latino programming.  [from the c…
The Barter Theatre, the state theatre of Virginia, might not be as well known in the DC metro area as it once was. The Barter Theatre has had a long and continuing production history that be…
Epic refined splendor comes to mind after seeing and hearing Signature Theatre's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic. Director Eric Schaeffer's vision and implement of such …
Tom Story is a knockout in his one-actor, effortlessly frenetic, tour de force performance as 40 different characters who comprise the charming "controlled" frenzy of MetroStage's Fully Comm…
Sleeping Beauty, Synetic Theater's new dialogue-free production, is gorgeous, entertaining, and illuminating. This Sleeping Beauty is more than a fanciful, "white bread, white washed" Disney…
Well beyond just comfort and joy, The Folger's production of The Second Shepherds' Play, a medieval English mystery about the ultimate power of faith to redeem and liberate, is the right …
"A simple tale of love and hope," is the way local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi describes her new work, The Magi. That is an understatement. In its premiere at Fairfax's The Hub Theatre…
The Hub Theatre will present a premiere musical, The Magi by local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi with music by singer/songwriter Eli Pafumi. This is a unique collaboration between the…
