Synetic Theater's The Man in the Iron Mask is a good yarn, well told. With the production Synetic continues to expand beyond its original Shakespeare roots and singular "silent" physical the…
Theatre Lab's production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Titanic The Musical will easily win you over. Under the direction of Deb Gottesman and musical direction by Joshua Coyn…
Story telling has been part of human history for–well–forever. In recent days story-telling has had a resurgence with digital media, pod casting and, of course, radio. Think T…
"You can't censor your creative impulses because of the danger of hurting someone's feeling. Write don't speak it." This early line of dialogue resonates throughout the emotionally rich, int…
With Eleanore Tapscott's gentle, affecting, eloquent direction, the Port City Playhouse production of Athol Fugard's Coming Home (2009) is an exemplary work about love, loss and resilience. …
He wrote books that fueled many of his generation. He was a literary provocateur with a writing style like few others penning works about the Vietnam War's aftermath, political intrigue,…
The boys from the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) have been a mainstay in the DC area for decades. They never wear out their welcome whether performing at the Folger, The Kennedy Center or…
A big theatrical story created on a small space is no easy matter. For the too-short stay of Moby Dick at the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, it was accurate what the Kennedy Cen…
Next season's Great Performances series at the Center for the Arts was recently announced to hearty applause at a lovely evening event on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virgi…
Revelations are many in the admirable production of Bathsheba Doran's The Mystery of Love & Sex currently at Signature Theatre. Directed by Stella Powell Jones, The Mystery of Love &…
The seeds of Jennifer Haley's award-winning The Nether now at DC's Woolly Mammoth and Philly's InterAct were planted long, long ago. Twenty years ago in fact, The War of Desire and Techno…
In the past 25 years or so the theater scene in nearby Philadelphia, the nation's 5th largest city, has blossomed into 50-plus stage companies that pay their actors designer and creative …
Theater has a great deal to offer well beyond acting before an enthralled audience. Not only is theater a source of inspiration and entertainment, but it can be a wonderful opportunity to le…
"Dark Nights" You remember that theatre term for when a venue has no shows playing to an audience. Well, NextStop Theatre, located in Herndon is having its April Theatre for Young Audiences …
Dance, Music, & Theater Comes to Manassas, VA The Hylton Performing Arts Center announces its 2016-2017 season, a fantastic line-up of music, dance, theater and performing arts. Now ente…
Writing a column about Theater J's world premiere of Falling Out of Time, based upon the book by David Grossman, about a man whose 20 year-old soldier son who was killed during military h…
Several years ago, I read Annie Baker's The Flick. For the life of me, I wondered how such a beautifully written, gutsy play about youth working-class heroes in their own ways could be turne…
Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has a loud flash-bang grenade of a theater experience for audiences. It comes with a chilling take on gloomy lives lived in a world of law and order under t…
Ah, the importance of the costumes actors wears to set the scene for any stage production: the shapes, colors, textures. How the fabric flows, drapes, curves or hugs fast to an actor's frame…
Revealing the concealed underpinnings and durable structures of American musicals is no easy undertaking. Let alone covering and analyzing the past seven decades of musical theater history. …
How fortunate we are in the DC area, a locale that seeks status as a world class city, to have the Ambassador Theater in our midst. The Ambassador Theater has a mission to build internationa…
Having separately followed two of the DC area's delightful performing arts groups, one a jazz ensemble and the other a dance troupe, I was intrigued to learn they would be performing togethe…
Gin Dance Company (GDC) is a Metropolitan DC/Northern Virginia based performing arts modern dance company. Founded in Reston, Virginia in 2011 by Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff, GDC perform…
First things first. One should not miss a chance to discover, or for some re-discover, a rarely produced Stephen Sondheim work. This is especially true for an appealing musical product…
Death abounds in The Maid's Tragedy. Be prepared for an avenging angel with a message and actions against the vicious power of a King and lascivious misogynist cultural values in Brave Spiri…