Part of the magic of Lumina Studio Theatre is that it mounts serious, artistically thoughtful productions of complex works with a young cast of all ages and makes it work for all of them and…
The fast-paced and energetic "Push the Button" is making its world premiere at the Keegan Theatre. The hip-hop musical emerged from Keegan's Boiler Room Series, an incubator for works by new…
Imagination Stage has a well-earned reputation for presenting innovative children's theatre that does not talk down to its audience. It continues to impress with "The Hula-Hoopin' Queen" by …
Washington Stage Guild has mounted a production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" that is more than satisfactory in its parts. The acting, direction, and set and sound design are all top-notch. …
Five years ago, NextStop Theatre Company presented "45 Plays for 45 Presidents," (read our review here), a collection of super-short plays about each of the men who had served in the nation'…
The actor playing Nina in a production of "The Seagull" trips over one line and forgets another. Her scene partner tries to cover for her. She stumbles through another line or two, then goes…
"The Outsider" by Paul Slade Smith feels unstuck in time. First performed in 2015, the politics of this agreeable, light satire are those of 2008, and the tone and style evoke smart sitcoms …
Blue Man Group is, as the Kennedy Center website says, a "phenomenon." Created in New York in 1987, Blue Man Group has performed for more than 35 million people on multiple continents, with …
Capital Fringe perseveres. Two years after the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 15th annual festival, Fringe has returned"a bit smaller, a bit quieter, but alive and unbowed. If there…
Michael Seebold's "Etched Glass Decanter" evokes Edgar Allan Poe or the darker works of Neil Gaiman. The 70-minute play takes place in an obscure universe where dream logic prevails and wher…
"Is this legal?" "More or less!" Welcome to the weird world of D.C. marijuana gifting. In the District of Columbia, every law comes with an asterisk. The Council can overturn a measure passe…
If you laugh at the abyss, the abyss laughs back at you. Samuel Beckett was the funniest of the existentialists who took European thought by storm after the horrors of Nazism and the Second …
In addition to being a prolific playwright, Lauren Gunderson is also one of the nation's best ambassadors for science. Works like "Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight…
Currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, "Nollywood Dreams" is a delightful, feel-good telling of the familiar young-girl-makes-it-big-in-the-movies story set in a world that may be new…
 Lauren Gunderson has made a name for herself"and became the nation's most produced living playwright in each of two recent years"with a series of works that include wordy and funny, fem…
"Jesus Christ Superstar," the current production the Kennedy Center, reminds us that it is a half-century old " or rather, a bit past that, since the "50th Anniversary Tour" was delayed beca…
 Anne Frank is an icon. A symbol. A tragedy. Anne Frank is also a commodity. Rinne B. Groff's "Compulsion or the House Behind," currently at Theater J, is a lightly fictionalized look at…
"Flight" contains no live actors"and no actors at all, save for those heard over headphones. It has no traditional set, and yet has dozens of them. It is a work of immersion experienced in i…
"Mysticism & Music," a newly devised Constellation Theatre piece running both in person at the Source Theatre and in streaming production, is not a play. It has no through-line of narrat…
"Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski," now running at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Michael R. Klein Theatre, is a searing and intimate study of a hero who thought he was a failure, port…
Classic novels and plays have often been reimagined and updated with modern language in high school settings " films like "Cruel Intentions," "Clueless," and "Easy A" come to mind. Works by …
The real star of the Kennedy Center's world premiere, commissioned production of "A Wind in the Door" did not herself appear on stage during the show's just-ended run. This one-hour staging …
With director Angelisa Gillyard's production of "Moon Man Walk," Constellation Theatre Company continues its tradition of exceptionally staged, visually rich performances " this time, rising…
The Her Majesty & Sons production of "Twelfth Night" is a delightful, quick-paced bit of very midsummer madness that manages to achieve theatrical intimacy even in this time of renewed p…
Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will leave his position as of next Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual assault. Schaeffer co-founded Signature in 1989 and has bee…