Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin's choice of directorial debut wasn't a stretch. Godwin's newly minted tenure at STC begins with a vivid and zesty restaging of his …
On the positive side, there's nothing "scaled down" about the Kennedy Center's latest Broadway Center Stage series presentation of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's 2008 steamrolling tearjerker Ne…
The big takeaway from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the glimpsed exposure to what goes through the mind of a special person"in this case someone with an autism spectru…
A doleful ballad fittingly eases you into Quotidian Theatre Company's (QTC's) lovingly rendered production of Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Three generations of Irishmen then introduce t…
The staging of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Fences at Ford's Theatre seemed made-to-order for a grand slam home run. The memorable backyard drama of father and son a…
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's restaging of his 2017 Broadway production of Jitney at Arena Stage"bringing to town much of the design team and several of the actors"is a terrific kickoff t…
There are so many weirdly gleeful moments stuffed in Assassins, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman's darkly comic and brilliant musical vaudeville exposing the a…
Over 100 and some years ago, The Mollusc was the best-known work of an Englishman considered to be in affinity with the likes of Oscar Wilde. About 10 years ago, my colleague at DC Theatre S…
I guess I just don't get Falsettos. The Tony Award® winning musical may have been fresh at its 1992 Broadway debut"it's mainstream depiction of gay couples was certainly trailblazing"but …
Admittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn't tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British playwr…
Enchantment awaits those who enter Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's wildly inventive, darkly comic thicket of life lessons sprung from children's fairy tales in a new revival at Ford's The…
Director David Muse's Richard the Third is clearly rendered, scored to propulsive industrial rock and sets itself apart from previous productions by a series of grisly execution scenes, b…
I normally don't like dumb movies of the kind in which the actor Jack Black has made a conspicuous brand. But School of Rock, the sleeper hit from 2003, wasn't that dumb"it was funny and swe…
The streak is broken. Playwright David Ives' winning series of brilliant, hilarious "transladaptations" performed at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) over the last decade ground to a cr…
The revival of Cole Porter's 1934 madcap romp Anything Goes at Arena Stage manages to be everything that it can be"an anachronism, tiresomely silly and outright dumb in places, but also the …
As I write this, leaders from around the world are marching down the Champs-Élysées in Paris under a canopy of umbrellas in the rain, gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of th…
Actress Natascia Diaz's bold performance breathes transformative life into Fosca"one of musical theater's most remarkable creations"in Signature Theatre's resplendent revival of Stephen Sond…
In 2015 the president of Prince George's Community Pool in Mt. Rainier, Md., discovered copies of decades-old correspondence between pool officials and Raymond Bowlding, a local black man, w…
Other Life Forms, local actor and playwright Brandon McCoy's new play, is likable"sweet, goofy and well-intentioned"but still needs a lot of work to have any lasting impact. The comic curios…
Playwright Ken Urban's absorbing new play starts strong and keeps you hooked during most of its snappy real-time runtime before slogging down in a closing exhalation and then abruptly coming…
Broadway actress and singer-songwriter Desi Oakley is over 200 performances in on the national tour of the fan-favorite musical Waitress, now at The National Theatre. She plays the lead r…
Seeing Two Trains Running at Arena Stage marks the halfway point of my consummation of playwright August Wilson's decalogue of dramas expressing the 20th century black experience in America.…
Referenced more now as "the first show from the guy behind Hamilton," the decade-old In the Heights created by current cultural darling Lin-Manuel Miranda burst spirited and joyful during it…
The Farnsworth Invention, showbiz writer Aaron Sorkin's misfired attempt to retrofit a screenplay about the patent battle over television transmission into a stage drama was a dud when it op…
Much of the fumbling journey of growing up as a teenager is done around other teenagers, not parents or other adults, at least in my experience. And the essence of that pubescent collective …