"45 Plays for 45 Presidents" is a rough, vital, essential work of theatre, currently being expertly performed by a perfectly selected cast at NextStop Theatre Company. The show — actua…
"Vicuña & The American Epilogue" is a tale of an aspiring emperor's new clothes. The Los Angeles premiere of this sharp satire of Donald Trump's presidential run straddled Election Da…
Three women (though not Three Sisters) elevate director Melissa B. Robinson's production of Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," running through the end of October at …
Rich Amada's historical drama "The Judicial Murder of Mrs. Surratt" is making its world premiere at Aldersgate Church Community Theater in Alexandria this month, in a production where Charle…
Though thin on plot and weak on character development, the Constellation Theatre Company production of Andrew Lippa's 2000 musical "The Wild Party" still manages to impress due to a strong c…
Director Keith Cassidy, a comic book fan, discovered the script of "King Kirby" while browsing a bookstore in New York. He had no idea that the play existed. It was a fitting start for his O…
The dozens of shows that make up a Capital Fringe Festival always vary wildly in terms of subject and style, but perhaps even more in terms of stagecraft. Some shows consist of just a perfor…
David S. Kessler has a condition known as ordinal linguistic personification. But he does not suffer from it; he could be said to enjoy it (for the most part). The condition is a form of syn…
"The Dream Dancer," part of the Capital Fringe Festival, is an intriguing but flawed dance theatre production that veers between well-executed movement pieces and dialogue that is stilted an…
Ask someone to name a bad president and they'll be quick to offer several names. Ask someone to name a bad First Lady, and it's likely that one name will jump to come to mind. Mary Todd L…
The CBS broadcast of the 71st Annual Tony Awards brought few surprises in terms of winners, and a game but middling performance by host Kevin Spacey. But the performances " the real reason f…
When the Emperor Vespasian's son Titus criticized his father for placing a tax on Rome's toilets, Vespasian held up a gold coin and told him, "Money does not stink. And yet it comes from uri…
Washington is wealthy in terms of theatres, but sometimes one has to be wealthy to afford a ticket. Parlor Room Theater is a small professional company with the admirable goal of making grea…
A 1985 book by a neurologist might seem like strange fodder for the stage, but the real individuals described in Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" are ripe for theatric…
Constellation Theatre Company marks its 10th season with a revival of a show from its first, playwright Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of "The Arabian Nights," directed by Allison Arkell Stockm…