A poetic and politically charged same-gender-loving love story, This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers"now playing in a powerfully moving production at Theater Alliance"strips bare the h…
Anne Washburn's Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017 is an epic, scorching, and surreal satire of white liberalism in the era of Trump. It takes place at that ominous juncture in recent Amer…
"Oh, god. Maybe it didn't work," the mother exclaims in alarm. It's the moment in this hold-your-breath drama when she realizes the gender experiment done on her child, one of two identical …
"I'm good at finding out the truth," says Billy Argo (Spencer Coben), the boy-prodigy detective, near the beginning of this clever, quirky, and quite touching musical. So observant of clues …
It may surprise you (as it did me) that the title of this melodic world-premiere musical does not refer to gunpowder. The word gun means there's a pistol (which gets dramatically deployed). …
At the start of this brave performance, we see on a dark stage a young man who is making a suicide attempt. He is wearing cargo pants, a tee, and sneaks and has a food-storage bag over his h…
This play about a boxer packs so many emotional punches into its compact six rounds, you might not know what hit you. As fists fly, bells clang, terse words burst, and the cast claps out eac…
Dominion Stage has given this rowdy, irreverent, and rollicking rock musical a remarkably woke production that is as rousing as it is reflective and as satiric as it is unsettling. Set in 18…
Summoning a galaxy of African American recording stars, this poignant one-act sometimes seems like a sublime dream with vintage music. There are ethereal visions, vivid Afrofuturist visitati…
This thoroughly delightful offering from Mosaic has all the makings of a lighthearted rom-com. Boy meets girl. He invites her to his place. She initiates sex. It's hot. Though they come from…
The set for Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline at Studio Theatre could not be any whiter. Its white walls of freshly painted concrete blocks span the breadth of the stage and extend around the a…
The casual cruelty that constructs men's certainty they're real men"and the cost of that violence to others and to themselves"comes under scathing scrutiny in Joe Calarco's shattering one-ac…
A gathering stormcloud looms over this exquisitely wrought play by Alix Sobler. "How bad is it going to get?" a character wonders aloud. No one can answer. "It can't go on like this much lon…
Now in its eighth year, Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show has established itself as the season's most joyful and lovable family festivity in DC. Exuberant music, adorable humo…
"Have you seen this before?" I heard an audience member ask his friend just before Holiday Sauce, Taylor Mac's sold-out alt-holiday extravaganza at The Kennedy Center. "Prepare yourself f…
When Playwright Lauren Gunderson took on the challenge of adapting J. M. Barrie's 1904 Peter Pan, she knew she had to fix what she has called the "deeply harmful misrepresentation of Indigen…
The five adults seated onstage in a children's classroom each have a kid enrolled in this private day school, which like the play we're watching is named Eureka Day. These earnest parent…
J. M. Barrie imagined a lot when he wrote his 1904 play about the boy who wouldn't grow up, but he could not have imagined how many childhoods have been etched by its enchantment. Now in Pet…
My name is Christopher Boone and I am 15 and I am brave and I can do anything. I know that because I traveled by train by myself from Swindon to London and I solved the mystery of a neighbor…
On the day I was to see 19: The Musical"which is about how the amendment granting women the right to vote came to pass in 1920"our Constitution Denier in Chief made a perfectly timed gaffe. …
Anchuli Felicia King's White Pearl is a hilarious, fast-paced satire set in the Singapore office of a cosmetics startup called Clearday that sells skin-whitening cream to Asian women. As the…
In the competitive national and international air guitar scene, contestants vie for championships and prizes by pretending to play (or "shred") imaginary guitars to 60-second tracks from cla…
"True if interesting" is Louise Nevelson's byword in Occupant, Edward Albee's witty and wise bioplay about the famous sculptor. She was quite the character. For Nevelson, in the hagiography …
Following on Factory 449's electrifying production two years ago of Lela & Co."which earned Helen Hayes Awards for both its director (Rick Hammerly) and star (Felicia Curry)"the company …
"It feels unknown. This is nowhere somehow," says a character in this intriguingly cryptic poetic play by the acclaimed Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Indeed, where are we? And what is g…