THE KITE RUNNER FLIES HIGH AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Because the best-selling novel The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is so significant and well-revered, as is the 2007 movie screenpl…
THE MINDLESS SILLINESS WE DIDN'T KNOW WE NEEDED Broadway Center Stage's production of Bye Bye Birdie, the 1960 musical comedy smash currently at The Kennedy Center, is delightfully corny, sc…
HAIR EXPLODES WITH ECSTACY AT SIGNATURE The 1967 "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, currently at The Signature Theatre through July 7 and directed by Matthew Gardiner, is an explosion…
AN EYE-OPENER Prior to Next to Normal at Round House Theatre a giant, obtrusive woman's eye projected onto the back wall (projections by Nicholas Hussong) stares and blinks out at the aud…
A MYTH, A MESS, AND A MISS For all the hoopla that is Evita, save for the beautifully haunting ballad "Don't Cry for me Argentina," Shakespeare Theatre's version, directed by Sammi Cannold, …
SIGNATURE'S BRIDGES FREES VIEWERS TO BE HOPELESS ROMANTICS Given its syrupy and soaring sentimentalism, Robert James Waller's very short 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was amazingl…
WATCHING THIS MAY NOT ALWAYS BE FUN, BUT IT SURE FEELS LIKE HOME Fun Home, which opened yesterday at Studio Theatre, will likely touch even the most cynical of hearts. Deep but never sappy, …
DAZZLED BY THE STARS UNDER THE STARS The third annual Broadway in the Park, produced by Signature Theater and Wolf Trap, showcased some of the best singing talent of the D.C. area and headli…