First of all, Bertolt Brecht is a master playwright, the likes of which come along only rarely in the theatre. His Mother Courage and her Children is one of the great scripts of th…
Generally speaking, American theatregoers hate mixing politics and art: they almost always prefer the juicy personal drama, the edgy dysfunctional family comedy, or the sexy musical melodram…
Chinese-American, African-American, Jewish-American, Irish-American, Latin-American, Christian-American, Native-American, White-American, Texan–each of us makes certain choices, willin…
For Shakespeare’s Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest history plays, the Folger Theatre has transformed itself. Always an intimate space for the Bard, now the Fo…
1. Ella: The First Lady of Song! at MetroStage “If you love Ella Fitzgerald"heck, even if you were born last week and are thus only vaguely familiar with Ella Fitzgerald (in fact…
Some plays rely on insight, perceiving deep into the human condition and offering gems to an eager audience. Some rely on wit, exercising the minds of eager audiences anxious to keep up …
At the beginning of Act 2 of The Tallest Tree in the Forest, playwright/performer Daniel Beaty plays the part of Jamal Joseph, a professor at Columbia University.  He comes on stage…
1. Tribes at Studio Theatre “Studio Theatre is on a roll with new, and inspiring theatre.  The Apple Family Plays offered us insight into contemporary liberalism.  Ed…
Studio Theatre is on a roll with new, and inspiring theatre.  The Apple Family Plays offered us insight into contemporary liberalism.  Edgar & Annabel takes us to th…
The Capital City Players' production of Keith Huff's dramatic two-hander, A Steady Rain, is both tightly drawn and clearly staged. … a disturbing look at the consequences of bigo…
With Forum Theatre’s world premiere presentation of Meena’s Dream, written and performed by Anu Yadav, the theatre-going audience is given that rare glimpse into the mind of a…
With An Irish Carol, Keegan Theatre's season appropriate Christmas show, you will not find a money grubbing Scrooge or a melodramatically afflicted Tiny Tim. Rather, you get a depressed,…
Einstein and others have had their thought-experiments. Whether they were chasing after a beam of light or worrying about a cat, they created thought-experiments that used the imagination to…
If you and your friends and family are in the mood for a fun, witty, and utterly meaningless*** evening of performance this holiday season, then Woolly Mammoth's presentation of The Pajam…
1. ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ at Arena Stage “So if you are in need of a little optimism and a renewed sense in the power of people to sit down at a round table a…
Arena Stage's production of Todd Kreidler's stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, by Oscar winner William Rose, is a delightfully funny, wonde…
With Nicky Silver's The Lyons we are presented a typical dysfunctional family. We have the dying, cancer-filled, angry father who openly despises his homosexual son; the loveless, …
For the press opening of The Apple Family Plays, a two-play repertory of Richard Nelson's That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad, Studio Theatre invited the audience to attend a…
1. 'Sweet and Sad' at Studio Theatre “Studio Theatre's The Apple Family Plays is a repertory worth seeing in its entirety.  It is truly a unique piece of theatre.”…
Sweet and Sad, the title of the second play in Richard Nelson's Apple Family Plays, comes from Walt Whitman's "The Wound Dresser," a poem he wrote in reflection on the time he served a…
When Brazilian theatre artist Augusto Boal brought his politically revolutionary theatre of the oppressed to Europe and the United States several decades ago, he discovered that his…
Les Miserables Storms the Barricades at  the Reston Holiday Parade on November 29, 2013 The cast and crew of the Reston Players production of Les Miserables are excited to an…
After experiencing Mies Julie, the South African production based on August Strindberg's incredible drama and written and directed by the equally incredible Yael Farber, I returned home f…
1. Mies Julie at Shakespeare Theatre Company “Simply put, from the production to the performances, the Baxter Theatre Center and the South African State Theatre have given us the mu…
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, now playing at Silver Spring Stage, looks deeply at innocence violated; it looks disturbingly at the creative mind's response to that violation; it loo…