Last Saturday was the world premier of "Clay's Place: Inside My Blue Mind" by Angela Wilson of The AngelWing Project. The play is a slice of life in the Black community of Memphis that takes…
The last show I saw in person in March 2020 before the complete shut-down was "The Realistic Joneses" at Spooky Action Theater. Last night I returned to see Spooky's first in-person show of …
"Girls' Night (With Spirits)" is an audio play about all kinds of spirits"from the dead to the undead, to the weight we carry in our hearts and souls. Guess which type causes the most grief?…
Frederick Knott wrote the psychological thriller "Wait Until Dark" in the early 1960s and the film version (1967) starring Audrey Hepburn is ranked by both AFI and Bravo as one of the scarie…
The Providence Players of Fairfax are presenting "The Beatle Club," a world premiere by Teresa Sullivan, for their first, back-in-person show of the season. It's a very family-appropriate an…
 This production is a like a dip in the warmth of late spring. Written by Emily Mann (and adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany with Amy Hill Hearth),…
Aldersgate Church Community Theatre is opening its in-person 2021-2022 season with Jane Anderson's "Defying Gravity,"Â a look at the Challenger tragedy of 1986 with Monet as our guide. Al…
'"Prepping for Widowhood" is a frequently laugh-out-loud look at what sustains us when life happens"in this case, widowhood. It's a story of four old friends known as "The Seasons" (each was…
Noah Diaz has written an original play for Baltimore Center Stage, and it's a shifty play (it's loosely inspired on his mother and grandfather). The people are certainly shifty; the plot shi…
The Revoluntionists, currently playing at The Colonial Players of Annapolis, is a romp of a play. Like much comedy, it has has a serious core. Think of this as the "A Vindication of the Righ…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria blew the roof off the building this past Wednesday with their production of August Wilson's "Fences." The production is taut, layered, and deserving of the s…
One superb thing Gala Hispanic Theatre's production of "Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster)" has going for it is the beautifully poetic language. It's the language of lov…
"Good People," which opens Keegan Theatre's 25th anniversary season, is a play about rough-edged people " Southies from Boston " who cut right to the chase. That chase is surviving, friendsh…
I thought this play had one of the most lyrical titles I've ever heard, and I still think that. "Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees," an audio play presented by Edge of the Universe Players…
Erin Granfield most recently played the inimitable Louise in "Always…Patsy Cline" by Creative Cauldron during this past June and July. She is a Helen Hayes-nominated actor for "On Air," wh…
It is rare that I will see a play twice (but only because there is so much theatre and so little time), but several seasons ago I saw "An Act of God" at another theatre and thought it was on…
Psalmayene 24's latest production is "The Blackest Battle," a parable set to a love story set in the near future where America has gone through a second civil war after reparations were fina…
Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67" focuses on five days in the summer of 1967 when racial tensions between Black residents and the police force came to a head. It culminated with tanks in t…
Originally titled "The Indian Fighters" in 1954 when Horton Foote wrote the play, it was presented as "The Day Emily Married" at Silver Spring Stage in 1997 when the Quotidian Theatre Compan…
Searing is the word that comes to mind in this depiction of intergenerational racism on Black people in this country. Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from the book by Toni Morrison, the horror a…
"Rumors," Neil Simon's first farce, premiered in 1988. Like many farces it depends on confusion, lots of exits and entrances, and fast ripostes. Some of this the play delivers very well and …
Everyman Theatre's "An Almost Holy Picture," the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play currently available online, is a beautifully staged and acted production. It proves to be a one-man tour-…
The Colonial Players is ending its 72nd season with a play that has more to it than initially meets the eye. "Love, Loss and What I Wore" is a journey through women's lives and how the cloth…
It is very easy to see why this show is a favorite of high schools and colleges. It takes a tragic scenario " the death of parents and a younger sibling " and shows that there is still j…
Hope comes up a lot in this play. At one point the protagonist, Martin (Bobby Moreno), repeats "It's all about hope" a couple of times. But hope proves not to be the panacea he thinks it is.…