Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott's farce No Sex Please, We're British premiered in London's West End in 1971. It was unanimously panned by critics, although it played to full houses until …
Adam Gwon's 2009 show Ordinary Days could serve as the prototypical Off-Broadway chamber musical: four young characters navigate the Big City in search of their lives, in 19 songs over 80 mi…
Don't let those off-putting promos for Kill Move Paradise at Rep Stage Co. stop you from turning out for its solid regional premiere at Howard Community College. This 2016 piece of theater i…
Trigger warning. Nu Sass's world premiere of Weep is an arresting, unflinching peek into complicated lives with emotionally charged scenes and character collisions. It is a slowly building p…
Chris Dwyer uses Walt Whitman's poetry and his many hospital visits to bring vivid accounts of the Civil War to life in Leaves of America: Walt Whitman's Stories of the Civil War. Whitman fa…
Colonial Players of Annapolis' production of Book of Days is powerfully ambitious. Lanford Wilson's 2000 play follows the lives of several residents of the small town of Dublin, Missouri, ov…
Anne Washburn's Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017 is an epic, scorching, and surreal satire of white liberalism in the era of Trump. It takes place at that ominous juncture in recent Amer…
Filled to bursting with Warrior Girls, Lost Boys, dastardly Pirates from tiny to extra-large, and flying children, Theatre@CBT's Peter Pan is a treat from start to finish. Director Kevin …
Recipe for a Perfect Evening: Take heaping cups of American mid-century corn (straight from the pages of Good Housekeeping), place it in a beautifully crafted Dutch Oven (from the pages of t…
A native of Monterrey, Mexico, and resident of New York City, Mauricio Martinez's ongoing "fifteen minutes of fame" have spread like wildfire throughout his native country and the US with hi…
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of Swan Lake is a gorgeous combination of dancing, costumes, and lighting. With choreography by Artistic Director Dianna Cuatto, it is a wonderful sta…
There's no doubt that The Pirates of Penzance is one of the most beloved of Gilbert and Sullivan's works. Like most Gilbert and Sullivan tales, it takes clever jabs at the politics of its ti…
Even though being a classical music reviewer often feels like a gig too good to be true, I don't recall ever forgetting my purpose for attending a performance. There's a first for everything…
"Hats reveal and they conceal," Crowns playwright Regina Taylor states in an interview. Crowns is derived from a book of photographs and stories of African American women, compiled by journa…
Who Tells Our Story is the theme of Better Said Than Done's upcoming, first-of-its-kind, two-day Women's Storytelling Festival. Audiences can expect stories that have been crafted for a s…
Corners can be safe spaces for hiding. There's comfort in corners because they're out of sight and out of danger. In The Amen Corner, James Baldwin's dilemma is whether to embrace the inner …
Although it's been twenty-five years since playwright Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky made its debut in Atlanta, the Keen Company's current revival at Theatre Row marks the New York …
The HBO hit Succession centers around a wealthy media family reportedly based on the Rupert Murdoch dynasty. Its central dilemma: who will succeed the ruthless Logan Roy as the head of his w…
The world is so full of intractable political and cultural issues, with deep chasms making understanding, let alone peace, seem so far away. But the venerable Washington Performing Arts (WPA…
Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie have announced the theater's ten-show 2020/21 Season. This season, more than half of the playwrights and director…
Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017, the new play by Anne Washburn in its US premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, summons the dread and dysphoria of primarily white liberals followin…
By Kelly Hanson Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina, a beloved fairy tale about a tiny girl searching for a place to belong, has been captivating children for hundreds of years. Though this…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of The 39 Steps is a hilarious send-up of Alfred Hitchcock movies. Adapted by Patrick Barlow in 2005 and based on John Buchan's 1915 adventure nove…
Spoiler alert: Cinderella and the Prince live happily ever after. Of course, since Virginia Opera, like all opera companies of any size, prints a detailed synopsis in the program each patron…
"Oh, god. Maybe it didn't work," the mother exclaims in alarm. It's the moment in this hold-your-breath drama when she realizes the gender experiment done on her child, one of two identical …