As the local go-to theater company for carrying on the Grand Guignol tradition, Molotov Theatre Group mounts some of the most interesting combos of style and substance in town. There are a f…
I have admired Shirley Serotsky's work as a director on such shows as Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy at Theater J in 2014 and Rapture, Blister, Burn at Round House Theatre in 2015. Shirley also serv…
I wish that recent events had not made this powerful theater experience so necessary. I wish that Capital Fringe would have come along again and this production would have warranted theaterg…
The young actor and rapper Darius McCall fell so much in love with the role of Romeo that he longed to bring the character to life, by himself, alone on stage with but Shakespeare’s wo…
Anna Snapp gives a robust, witty, and protean performance in this genuinely candid and insightful solo theater piece. Self-authored, and based on her own life, I Found That the Sun Will Rise…
The future of the Capital Fringe Festival has been uncertain since its brilliant and brave inception in 2006, but back in July 2013 its fate was especially iffy. The festival's fabulously fu…
Studio Theatre's fourth floor has been turned into an amazing facsimile of a Lutheran church basement, complete with inspirational posters on the walls and seating at folding tables as if fo…
You know you've just seen a play that hits a nerve about the distress of parents who have a troublesome, troubled son (whom they love but don't know how to cope with) when you're reading…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their e…
The very transportable set for this touring production consists of a small enclosure of flimsy, fragile fabric cubes painted to look like stone blocks but really as insubstantial as little l…
There's an ancient child-custody legend about two women who claim to be the mother of the same infant. In the well-known Hebrew Bible version, their dispute is resolved when King Solomon ord…
I have admired Shirley Serotsky's work as a director on such shows as Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy at Theater J in 2014 and Rapture, Blister, Burn at Round House Theatre in 2015. Shirley also serv…
No-No Boy is an extraordinary and essential play. It's about what happened to innocent people when this country demonized and incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. To witn…
After filming not a few Rotten Tomatoes targets and appearing in too many tabloid headlines, the real Ben Affleck has cleaned up and redeemed himself in the public stargaze, both professiona…
Whatever your mental picture of heaven, the funny and beautifully moving production of Bekah Brunstetter's Going to a Place Where You Already Are just opened at Theater Alliance may al…
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon wears irony on its sleeve with the same effrontery that three of its characters wear red, white, and black greasepaint to dissemble "race." Just opened a…
After I saw When January Feels Like Summer"Cori Thomas's counter-stereotypical romantic comedy at Mosaic Theater Company"I found myself thinking back to what happens between two particular c…
For the 24th year, the African-American Collective Theater marked DC Black Pride Weekend with readings of seven short plays, collectively titled 24/7, all written and directed by Alan Sha…
DC audiences last saw Olwen Fouéré in Yaël Farber's Salomé at the Shakespeare Theatre Company playing the narrator character Nameless Woman. With her striking long white hair, deep voc…
Does a play about an incurable progressive disease not sound like something you'd care to see? Does a character's long, lone monologue about her mother's memory loss to Alzheimer's not seem …
Mosaic Theater Company tops off its prodigious first season with an improbably romantic comedy by Liberian-American playwright Cori Thomas. It's about people from different cultures who you …
Watching Julia Coffey's feline and feral performance in the title role of Studio Theatre's sleek and stark staging of Hedda Gabler is to witness the trainwreck that is Ibsen's enigmatic char…
Martin Luther on Trial, the new play by Chris Cragin-Day and that had its world premier in DC at the Lansburgh Theatre, joins the canon of great theatrical works about major figures in re…
We can thank the fickle fates who determine the fluky destinies of local theater programming for Keegan Theatre's inspired late addition of Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter to its sp…
On October 31, 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 theses to a cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany. It was a hammering heard round the world. On the eve of the 500th…