The King is in a terrible way. Wounded, bleeding, he sees his world in disarray. The upstart Richmond has the field. Now he will have Richmond. His loyal aide Catesby urges retreat: "Withdra…
It is not fanciful to compare Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate today, with Moses. Like the biblical figure, Dr. King led his people out of captivity. Like Moses, the Georg…
In The Wonka Wonka Cool Girls Club, playwright Cecilia Jenkins' debut work, Anne Marie " the Mother Superior of Mean Girls in the seventh grade " has formed "the coolest club in school." Pla…
Tryst is a story of lies, theft, and the death of dreams, which is to say it is the story of ordinary life. George Love (Felipe Cabezas), or whatever he called himself, made his living durin…
CenterStage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah was last week named an Officer in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of the highest honors the British monarchy can bestow upo…
A DC Superior Court Judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Lansburgh Theatre Inc. and its principals, preventing LTI from tossing the Shakespeare Theatre Company out of its 7th St…
Marc Acito, whose Helen Hayes Award-winning tale of bird love, Birds of a Feather, graced the Hub Theatre stage last year, now returns to do a magic act. That is to say, his one-actor play H…
Vpstart Crow, the Manassas-based theater troupe which had combined Shakespearean productions with modern classics, is no more. "This company has been a huge part of our family for many years…
Christmas? Bah, humbug! A Christmas Carol? Humbug-a-lumba, boom bang boom! All of you who object to the sickeningly sweet moral superiority of the Charles Dickens story, not to mention the h…
The playwright looks down at the half-completed page in his battered Smith-Corona, tears it out, starts again. A man (Brian Hemmmingsen), urbane and slightly gross, marries a woman (Nann…
Atheist's Paradise is, at bottom, an extended memorial service for Henry Daniel "Doc" Johnson, philosopher, pilot and football coach for Midvale United Methodist University. Regrettably, thi…
Jean-Paul Sartre said that Hell was other people. He didn't know the half of it. For what Hell could be fresher than a pub full of academics with the teensy-weensy specialty of Scottish bord…
Rorschach Theatre will be conjuring one classic and one modern myth in its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last Monday. The modern myth will be Robert Kauzleric's Neverwhere, an adap…
One man's success in Arlington has caused changes in the Holiday Season for Washington's Theater Alliance, the company announced Friday. Because Stephawn Stevens, Black Nativity's longtime d…
On December 6, 1885, Miriam Hooper "Clover" Adams, clever, accomplished and rich, took a vial of potassium cyanide to her lips and quaffed it down. She was dead before the vial hit the floor…
Compass Rose is a theater and a training institution, and so has selected a play which can serve as training to all of us. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935, in the deep South, and on its…
In this brief, dense hour of misery and mystery, Kelly (Rachel Zampelli) salts herself in grief over the death of her husband Craig (Thomas Keegan) while Craig's identical twin brother Peter…
It is 1950 in South Africa, and the rain is pouring over the roof of St. Georges Park Tea Room (it really does, too, thanks to Ken Sheats' terrific set). You are a seventeen-year-old boy…
On April 30, 1951, the day playwright Craig Lucas was born, his mother took him to a gas station in Atlanta, Georgia and put him in the back seat of a car. She pinned a note to his outfit. I…
The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, said it most succinctly: Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. In An Enemy of the People, now…
We are at The Fillmore, and the night is full of sex and danger (set and fabulous lighting by Justin Townsend). The great Aretha Franklin (the magnificent Sabrina Elayne Carten) has just tak…
Michael Kahn, the 25-plus-year Artistic Director of Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company, has been named to the Theater Hall of Fame, the American Theater Critics Association announced t…
I understand your dilemma: you're about to make an appearance before traffic court, and you have nothing to wear. It's your third time up in the last six months, and this time it might be yo…
All right, let’s start with this. The Government Inspector is a five-alarm fire of a play, a bell-ringing, jitterbugging dance through a swamp of hypocrisy which is both ancient and mo…
Synetic Theater, a company which has never shied away from showing squirmy evil in all its wormy liveliness, here produces a ninety-minute symphony of depravity, and I mean that in a good wa…