The Board of Directors of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra approved a lockout of the organization's musicians, Local 40-543, if an agreement between the musicians and management was not reac…
I love Brecht. My heart and soul were ready for Scena Theatre's production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (written during World War II but not produced in America until the late 1950s) …
In honor of this month's celebration of Stonewall50/World Pride, Theatre at St. John's, in association with Yorick Theater Company, presents the first-ever revival of Charles Ludlam's GALAS …
The motley crew of neurotic and quasi-neurotic characters in Falsettos, now playing at the Kennedy Center, offers an eye-opening look at all-too-human dilemmas. The rituals of everyday life …
Following their two nominations from the prestigious Drama Desk Awards for last season's Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts and a Special Award honoring Founding Artistic Producing…
How do I love this play? Let me count the ways. My colleague David Siegel's review heaps accolades on the Round House Theatre production of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2, now playing …
The pivotal character in this profoundly moving comedy is Laurel, a young woman who has relocated from Jackson to Byhalia, Mississippi, to make a life with the young man she plans to love fo…
DC Metro Theater Arts hosted a rousing Tony Awards watch party at DC sports bar Penn Social last Sunday. An enthusiastic crowd of Broadway fans competed for ticket prizes and answered trivia…
Although I review the arts, most of my career has been spent as a health sciences writer. The combination means that although statistics might drive the bulk of what I write, my mind instinc…
Battle lines drawn. Cogent argument made. Can everyone be right at the same time? Does it matter in a world full of choices? Invigorating and decidedly bracing, the Round House production of…
Now in its fifth year, Politics & Art: District Vox is an annual "Made in D.C." performing arts showcase presented by Councilmember David Grosso and Washington Performing Arts' …
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a popular show right now with several venues running it around the same time. Creative Cauldron makes a grand entrance with their version of Disney's Beauty …
Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy is a graceful meditation on motherhood: its joys, its sorrows, and its unforeseeable costs. Director Kathryn Chase Bryer offers a visually lovely and emotionally …
Pointless Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Forest Treás (pronounced 'Triage'). Written by Navid Azeez, the play is based around the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks and the effec…
Sara Ruhl's The Oldest Boy tells a gut-wrenching story serenely, almost gently. At the heart of it is the bond between mother and child, a tie that Ruhl knew intimately when she wrote the…
''Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" asked T.S. Eliot's protagonist in the confessional modernist masterwork "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Through a world-premier devised performance,…
With the world premiere of DC playwright David Kessler's fictional memory play, Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance, Nu Sass & Uncle Funsy present an enlightening window into …
It's June, a time for anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations. Where can you simultaneously look back with fond nostalgia at British pluck and cheek, and party for Pride month? How ab…
If you're in NYC in June, there is a full calendar of events to commemorate Gay Pride Month. This year is especially significant in marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal Stonewall Upri…
The Workhouse Arts Center rocks an audacious combination of classic rock, classic longing, and sci-fi horror show in a hyperkinetic presentation of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Sho…
The Quail Valley Country Club is the setting for Ken Ludwig's A Fox on the Fairway, and the annual golf tournament against their rivals, Crouching Squirrel Country Club, is at hand. Quail Va…
Princess Ida, now being presented by The Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC), is something of an odd duck in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory. It has three acts, the dialogue is in blank …
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…
A matchmaker, dance instructor, legal counsel, and mandolin teacher (among other occupations), Dolly Gallagher Levi is a woman of countless talents and side-hustles in bustling, turn-of-the-…
Grease can be a sad tale of peer pressure, teen pregnancy, insecure futures, and violence. Based on a book of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, the story was about greasers, pre-…