The Opening Festival of the new REACH complex at The Kennedy Center featured a plethora of live performances and films, including the laugh-until-you-break-your-funnybone The Second City and…
As the Gospel stage play Nuthin' But The Truth! opened, the fictional Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church in Mississippi had figuratively seen many literal and emotional battles in its one…
Funny Boy, a musical version of Hamlet, A Breaking Wind, She Schtups to Conquer"could anyone predict how much those fictional plays would wow audiences? The Little Theatre of Alexandria's Th…
Buy your ticket today for a rich palette of cultural and political satire. Olney Theatre Center's Tiger Style! is the best stage comedy I've seen in 2019. Directed by Natsu Onoda Power, a ma…
Home, Sweet, _____ takes audiences on a sentimental journey through music, sight gags, and pantomime. Without words, Home, Sweet, _____ tells the story of a clown, the frenetic Collette Camp…
Featuring everything from simulated puppet sex, tawdry seductions and a mangled ear, the Tony-nominated Hand to God, by Robert Askins, is a play that dares to be different. Director William …
Written, directed, and acted by playwright Tara Lake, Â I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, is a one-woman trip down the poetic and artful mem…
The road to redemption can be an arduous one, especially when you've burned so many bridges in the past. LA TI DO Productions' Soul Redeemer, with a book by Paul Handy, music and lyrics by N…
Rockville Musical Theatre's Hairspray is musical dynamite. The winning trio of Director T.J. Lukacsina, Musical Director Marci Shegogue, and Choreographer Rikki Lacewell make this show ovati…
Family history, like any history, has a tendency to repeat itself. Filled with pathos, generational curses, and touches of humor, Land of Promiscuity, directed by LaRay McDaniels and written…
Farces are hard to do well or differently, but they nearly always impart an important lesson: always tell the truth. How the Other Half Loves is an innovative farce, replete with secret affa…
Fells Point Corner Theatre's 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipation.…
Spectacular. Amazing. Unforgettable. Pride & Joy is a musical that tells the little known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 " January 31, 2014) and the legendary and iconic…
Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage's How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwright…
The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I've seen in years: a mixture of '50s kitsch, photos of '50s-era entertainers, a record player console, pl…
What happened to the characters in Charles Schulz's Peanuts gang when they entered adulthood? We find out in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, written by Bert V. Royal and ma…
Started by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1991, STOMP is a cacophony of sounds produced by common objects in lieu of musical instruments. An amalgam of music,…
Harmonious voices! Hilarious hoofing! A dancing frog! With over 30 songs packed into its 90 minutes, the Colonial Players' A New Brain is a magnificent autobiographical musical comedy that i…
He's charming, he's debonair, he's sophisticated, and when you've got a problem, you better call Psmith " that's Ronald Eustace Psmith ("the P is silent, like pterodactyl"). You could feel t…
Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…
After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its pre…
There was a moment in the first act of Annapolis Opera's Carmen in which Director Fenlon Lamb assembled her cast in a colorful tableau that enthralled me and impressed itself on my mind. Thi…
Intrigue! Battles! History! Excitement! In a stunningly entertaining display of stagecraft, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Henry IV, Part IÂ features three of the best performances you'l…
MetroStage's Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – a…
American Moor, in a return engagement at Anacostia Playhouse, lambasts the audience with a series of provocative questions: can an actor play a role without tapping into the darkest parts of…