The performance has nothing as traditional as a plot, although it has recurring themes: the lack of communication between fathers and sons; time travel; interaction with space aliens; and lo…
This show is a knockout that, in the compact MAX Theatre, feels like a Broadway production staged in a living room.
The legend of Robin Hood—that noble outlaw who pursued justice for the poor and less fortunate and battled the abuses of an uncaring wealthy class—would seem to be a perfect subject for …
Director Ethan McSweeny uses a decrepit theater as the setting for his scintillating production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company, with the twist that…
With the help of four galvanizing lead actors and a powerful ensemble of musicians, Pullman Porter Blues brings to life a largely forgotten milestone in African-American history: the role of…
You for Me for You, the current production at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, is often cryptic and never really comes together, despite a few sharply focused moments
Director Molly Smith has brought a vibrant and colorful production of My Fair Ladyto the Fichandler Stage at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She honors the legend of the classic musical from …
Director Aaron Posner has done a lot of noteworthy work for the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, but his visionary production of The Conference of the Birds moves his work in a new and unex…
There aren't many Commanders-in-Chief who fit the mold of rock star, but the SpeakEasy Stage Company's Boston premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson makes a very strong case that our seven…
Playwright James Still brings the viewer into the home of James Beard (1903-1985), a pioneer in American cooking and host of the first cooking show on television.
Dying City is a less than fully satisfying theatrical experience: it's an appetizer rather than a meal.
Creator, author, and director Randy Johnson worked with Joplin's surviving family to craft this tribute to a musical innovator and trailblazer who, four decades after her death, is still an …
"Fly," the tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II now at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, demonstrates how to stage an involving historical drama without being pedantic or preachy.
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 play The Government Inspector is both a slashing satire of hypocrisy and social pretension and—at least as performed by the skilled comic actors in the production now …
This verse drama by poet Archibald MacLeish received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1959, but is little known today.
Kristoffer Diaz's play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, manages to ground the excesses of pro wrestling in reality while also viewing life through that wildly theatrical prism.
Rajiv Joseph's play is a hallucinatory look at life in a war zone, larded with absurdity and crowded with ghostly presences—and it's both funny and chilling.
Staged on a colorful plexiglass set designed by Riccardo Hernandez (who also designed The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), with stunning costumes and wigs by Gabriel Berry, Adjmi's highly enterta…
The songwriter and performer Jacques Brel died in 1978, but Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, the theatrical showcase of his songs, will probably live forever…
Arena Stage in Washington welcomes Molly back in the person of another gutsy woman, Kathleen Turner, in the crackling one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, is launching its "Season of Reinvention" with a rollicking, racy production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Washington area actor Bobby Smith has already received nine nominations for the Helen Hayes Award. One hopes that his hilarious performance in Olney Theatre Center's production of Little Sho…
Now Daisey returns to Woolly with a retooled version of his monologue in which he addresses the issues of truthfulness that have arisen in the past two years.
George C. Wolfe's exemplary production, currently being hosted by Arena Stage in its Kreeger Theater, originated last season on Broadway, winning the 2011 Tony Award for best revival of a pl…
hristopher Durang may have written Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You in 1979, but director Joe Banno's current production at American Century Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, shows…