John Proctor Is the Villain, receiving its world premiere in the Mead Theater at Washington's Studio Theatre, takes a sharp and entertaining look at modern high school students and how they"…
Without Debra Monk, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, James Lapine's play with music receiving its world premiere production at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, would simply be an amiable…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Salomé and the Constellation Theatre Company's production of Avenue Q each received seven Helen Hayes Awards at the 32nd annual ceremony, May…
All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's crackling Tony Award-winning play now at Arena Stage in Washington, lays out the high stakes that faced Lyndon Baines Johnson (Jack Willis) in the first year …
Director Gary Griffin has adapted his 2014 Chicago production for the current run in the MAX Theatre at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, and it's polished if, in large part, emotion…
The creative team has moved the action from 19th-century Seville, Spain, to Havana in 1958, shortly before Fidel Castro's supporters came to power against the dictator Fulgencio Batista. In …
Suzan-Lori Parks' epic work Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3), at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, fascinates on both the intellectual and emotional levels. With i…
It's professionally done, with a top-notch cast and musicians, but it's so guileless as to seem precious at times.
Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth) is a dazzling success ... Neither the controversy nor the success surrounding the production is completely unexpected…
Addiction, and how people deal with it, has become a common subject for dramatic treatment, but Bad Dog, Jennifer Hoppe-House's play now receiving a "rolling world premiere" production at th…
Creative talents Adam Gwon, Julia Jordan join Sheri Wilner in adapting her original play. The setting of the 95-minute musical, with no intermission, is the 1996 "Millberry Cake Off," where …
... a sweet, amiable and not terribly deep consideration of the role of art in life.
The entire cast is operating at the top of its skills, but Platt's impassioned performance serves as the core and anchor of the production.
Robert O'Hara's comic-tragic-romantic-political mashup, is the kind of engrossing, utterly out-there play that has made the reputation of Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Under t…