208 stories by "Susan Berlin"
In Joe Calarco's production of the musical at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, Sherri L. Edelen offers up a diamond-like performance as Madame Rose, the ultimate stage mother: by tu…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' raucous play now at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, considers what people should do when they make that discovery.
The 95-minute show isn't only about him, to be sure: Maurice recounts stories of his parents and brother, and showcases newer practitioners of the art of tap, along with a noteworthy nine-pi…
[Playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo is] back with Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, which sizzles like the earlier play but focuses instead on the dysfunctions of one family in an upscale subur…
Love in Afghanistan, Charles Randolph-Wright's play receiving its world premiere in the Kogod Cradle at Washington's Arena Stage, is a largely low-key story of two people trying to find comm…
Aaron Posner has chosen a new tack for his production at the Folger Theatre in Washington, stressing the parallels between Renaissance Verona and contemporary America. He has succeeded in cr…
"This," the play by Melissa James Gibson now at Round House Theater in Bethesda, Maryland, is an elliptical portrait of five friends trying to cope with life. Gibson's language (specifically…
Director Jason Loewith, also the theater's artistic director, has brought together an accomplished cast and overseen a sumptuous physical production. So why is the play unsatisfying?
Gee's Bend, the current production at MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, is moving and entertaining, but Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's script is less a play than a sociological document depict…
Measure for Measure is famously described as one of William Shakespeare's "problem plays," but its consideration of the tangled interplay among sex, justice, and politics means that it remai…
Synetic has packed so much of its trademark physicality, striking stage pictures, and never-ending musical score into two and a half hours including intermission (an hour longer than most of…
The title of Eric Coble's play refers to the sense that time moves faster as a person grows older.
... an affectionate production of Simon's first Broadway play (and first success), Come Blow Your Horn.
Lisa D'Amour's play, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, examines the precarious nature of relationships and the shifting role of the suburbs: at first a haven from crowded, dangerous ci…
Obviously, people who are familiar with J.K. Rowling's stories of the boy wizard will get more of the jokes, but the pace is rapid (the show runs about 70 minutes) and the performance pepper…
With its current production of Miss Saigon, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, demonstrates that this work does not need elaborate scenic effects to succeed as long as it has leading …
Director Jeremy Skidmore has brought together four top actors at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, for a pitch-perfect version of this potentially difficult play.
The current production at Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington closely follows Michael Bennett's original staging and choreography, re-created by Stephen Nachamie, and …
Director Jack Marshall has reimagined the two-character musical I Do! I Do! for American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, in a way both surprising and natural: broadening its story of…
The premise behind the title is that the re-election of Barack Obama, along with the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and the improving economy, are all signs that the nation is recov…
American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, has put together an entertaining production of Behrman's 1932 hit Biography, paced smoothly by director Steven Scott Mazzola and anchored wit…
Director Patricia McGregor ably navigates the territory among people who sincerely believe they're doing what is best for the people around them.
Since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company primarily concerns the interactions between husbands and wives, director Eric Schaeffer had the inspiration to cast married cou…
Playwright Aaron Posner has gone one step further, reinventing Chekhov's classic for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington—with the very Woolly title Stupid Fucking Bird.
What constitutes cultural appropriation? When does comparing the respective grievances of two minority populations turn into "Oppression Olympics"? These incendiary issues are at the heart o…
