There was reason behind the fact that I had not yet seen The Book of Mormon. The show, a pop culture lodestone and the apex theatrical event until it ran up against the wave of adorat…
A skeleton crew is the minimum number of people needed to maintain something in operation"to keep something alive. The title of Dominique Morisseau's appealing, thought-provoking drama…
Fifty years since Cabaret debuted on Broadway and almost as long since the 1972 film adaptation emblazoned its haunting imagery and seductive score across our collective consciousness, the j…
Black rage"internalized, until it's not. Stories that carry like the blues. Language that ricochets like jazz. Penetration into the trauma of the black experience in America. This is the tra…
Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking portrayal of a black working-class family and its "dream deferred" in mid-20th century America maintains its timeless grace in a new revival at Arena Stag…
The women chant their lines over one another above a rising swirl of offstage clamor that reaches a crescendo pitch. Masha (Caroline Hewitt),"the most troubled of the three Prozorov sisters"…
Hey theater geeks, you'll want to pay attention to this one! Did you ever think it'd be cool to sit back with the characters you had just seen on stage and just shoot the shit for a while, g…
Once an accidental role, Kevin McAllister's turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford's Theatre will be the third go-around fo…
Once an accidental role, Kevin McAllister's turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford's Theatre will be the third go-ar…
The problems that vexed Lillian Hellman's "sound the alarm" play Watch on the Rhine at its debut in 1941 still apply to the handsome production at Arena Stage today. Worse yet, it's li…
Actor and musician Daven Ralston glows when she talks about connecting with people through music. An accomplished pianist and violinist, Ralston is performing in Folger Theatre's production …
Arlington's Synetic Theater transports audiences to the fairy tale realm of enchanted forests and love at first sight in its latest wordless adaptation. Sleeping Beauty gets the visce…
Christmastime is officially upon us, heralded by the copious variants of Charles Dickens' Yuletide classic A Christmas Carol springing up around the Washington, D.C. metro area. Offerings in…
Director Shirley Serotsky's touching Broadway Bound at 1st Stage is a captivating mix of coping humor and tragic poignancy, borne aloft by Teresa Castracane's soaring performance as Kate Jer…
Bethesda, Md.-based Quotidian Theatre Company opens its 2016-2017 season with The Night Alive, the most recent, critically acclaimed drama from Conor McPherson, one of contemporary theater's…
The Little Foxes is at once an old-fashioned melodrama and a biting critique, seemingly written for today, of the hotly resented "1 percent". The play’s set up and mechanics feel like …
A variety of unrelated acts"song and dance, comedy, acrobatics, pantomime, magic"vaudeville was the popular American entertainment before radio, film and television. Happenstance Theater, a …
There's a lot of serious stuff exposed in Ayad Akhtar's incendiary Disgraced, currently at Arena Stage. The 90-minute one act asks tough questions, presents thorny dilemmas, uncorks usually …
I'll get right to it: For all the big-time awards bestowed upon it and its marketing promising profound discoveries at the end of an artful journey, David Auburn's Proof is puzzlingly flat. …
The play's final words sum it up best: "This heavy act with heavy heart relate." The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Othello is decidedly heavy on the heavy…
The narrator clues us in at the outset that what we'll be watching are the shadows of memories. This "truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" are Tom's sheltered remembrances of the last…
Unapologetically uplifting songs like the Act II opener "Sun's Gonna Shine" have pressed a consensus judgment that Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Broadway-bound period musical Bright Star …
Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit is one of those canonic icons that most theater-literate folks are familiar with but probably haven't seen. When intellectuals of Sartre's type attempt to market t…
Michael Hollinger's Tiny Island certainly fits the theme chosen for the Washington Stage Guild's 30th year""A Season of Past & Future." The premise of estranged sisters reuniting after d…
It pains me to write this review of Dogfight at the Keegan Theatre. I've been a Keegan patron for years and was happy to experience its newly renovated space for the first time (it debuted i…