 The Washington Stage Guild has produced a thoughtful and handsome meditation on women's choices and society's limits and judgments. Playwright George Bernard Shaw also cleverly focuses …
'"Blue Stockings" is both a rousing and thoughtful play. Set in the late 1890s as young women were pushing for the right to be allowed a degree while attending one of the women's colleges at…
 Mark Dunn's "A Delightful Quarantine" is, at its heart, a totally demented and compressed "Our Town." This play is a mad-cap romp of what could happen in a quarantine"at least if aliens…
 Helen Hayes Award-winner, Iyona Blake, has given us a love letter to sisters, family, and staying the course. One of the DMV's most talented actors, singer sand playwrights, Blake has w…
 "La Casa de la Laguna" ("The House on the Lagoon") at Gala Hispanic Theatre is a passionate play" intense and fascinating. Between the political underpinnings and the lives of the f…
Rockville Little Theatre's production of "Bad Seed" harks back to that old debate about nature vs. nurture, as well as the question of can children kill? Can they really understand what they…
 "White Noise" is not an easy play. Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks takes the dark history of America and presents it in a searing drama that forces four people to confront some very deep tr…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria's (LTA) production of "Bright Star"' is a sprawling, Southern Gothic that is inspired by a true story. It's a big-hearted story with the music, book, and sto…
The current offering at Washington Stage Guild is a delight and unexpectedly so. It's a fascinating fictional tale (based on a very tiny nubbin of truth) of an episodic, shared journey throu…
There are questions that need to be answered: Do you like your humor raucous? Rowdy? Completely irreverent? Topical? Sarcastic? Wry? Ironic? Punny? Unabashedly blue? Delivered with panache a…
During the holiday season, reviewers go to shows that are very diverse. One night we're reviewing a charming children's story, and the next, we're lucky enough to listen to the roof being ra…
Creative Cauldron's new Bold Works for Intimate Musical Stages initiative continues with a new work, "The Christmas Angel," by the stalwart creative team of Matt Connor and Stephen Gregory S…
Avant Bard Theatre kicks off it's 2021-2022 in-person theatre season with a meditation on what it means to be Black in America through the life experiences of August Wilson in "How I Learned…
Olney's production of John Cameron Mitchell's (book) and Stephen Trask's (music and lyrics) "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is a high-octane, raucous, roller-coaster of a journey. From the first…
"Secret Things," now playing at 1st Stage is a heartfelt, beautifully-staged and acted play about the quest for identity and love. If you enjoy a healthy dose of magical realism, you will th…
Best Medicine has staked out the comedy territory, and overall, they produce very funny shows. Throughout the closures of the pandemic, they produced a beautifully staged version of "Roaring…
"Catch Me If You Can," with the libretto by Terrence McNally and a theatrical score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman, borrows much from the 2002 film of the same name which, in turn, was b…
Washington Stage Guild's current production of 'My Children! My Africa!' is as relevant today as it was in 1989. Thirty-two years have passed, and Black people are still affected by centurie…
Lauren Yee's "The Great Leap" is raucously funny, incredibly profane, not for the kids, thoughtful, and will leave you uncomfortable. The latter is not a bad thing"but you may well have to p…
Keegan is currently presenting the regional premiere of "N" by Adrienne Earle Pender. This is a quick exploration of race, culture, and the heavy lifting Blacks did (and still do)"mentally a…
This was the show I didn't know I needed on a Friday evening after a long week at work. Dominion Stage is welcoming back theatre-goers with a delightfully funny production of "Five Women Wea…
"A Chorus WIthin Her" is a choreopoem theater experience, one written by several developmental poets (Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Glenis Redmond, Christine Sloan Stoddard, and Carmin Wong) and …
One of the funniest moments in the spare, beautifully crafted "Birds of North America" by Anna Ouyang Monech, comes when John (or Dad) dismisses a bird his daughter Regina spies at the begin…
'Flyin' West,' now showing in-person at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD, through October 31, 2021, and streaming on-demand through November 14, 2021, is a magnificent reason to return to l…
The Colonial Players are staging a smart, vivid "By The Way Meet Vera Stark" at their theatre in Annapolis. The costumes are pure glam, the set in the first act embodies 1930s Art Deco style…