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Perisphere Theater's Copenhagen left me feeling uneasy. Maybe this was this was exactly what I should have been feeling; the script, examines the morality of two scientists who worked on the atomic bomb. But despite the strong performances, something is missing from this production.

Two masked figures stand over a man lying on the floor. As they begin to dance, the man is swept up into an otherworldly spectacle. Dancers in black capes create a stream of movement across the stage, ushering the outsider and the audience into the strange world of Tim Rushton's choreography.

Buried Cities is a promising, if uneven, new play that features both an unsubtle debate on guns and moments of magical allegory.

Billed as an Irish dance place, Out of Time, presented as a part of the Kennedy Center's Ireland 100 festival, is actually much more. Equal parts dance, modern music performance, and memoir, Colin Dunne's stunning solo performance is full of depth and intelligence.

There is little worse than a play that doesn't understand its purpose. They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay!, written by Dario Fo and produced by Ambassador Theater at the Mead Theatre Lab, cannot decide what it wants to be. Instead, the production vacillates between heavy-handed social commentary and overacted comedy. Despite a few strong performances, the production is weighed down by its cumbersome message and leaves the audience confused instead of inspired.

Theater Alliance's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Word Becomes Flesh are both beautiful theatrical experiences; when presented together their power and resonance only magnifies.

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Woolly Mammoth: joyful, raw and revitalizing

Molotov Theatre Group's Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite is a piece of Halloween candy: sweetly frightening but not enough to fill you up.  The outline of the script and the excellent technical work promise captivating thrills which the performances never quite deliver.

Absurdist comedy and sparking physical comedy collide in Taffety Punk's Inheritance Canyone

Audience members looking for a tightly wound, complex ,and interesting thriller will be disappointed in The Letters at MetroStage

Scena Theatre's The Norwegians is just what the doctor ordered: dramatic hit-man thriller skewered into clever, oddball farce. As Washington, D.C. finally emerges from a mean winter, it's incredible fun to laugh over the antics that a long cold-season can bring about.

Nu Sass's 'small batch audience' production of 'A Bright Room Called Day' makes inspired use of space and is truly compelling storytelling.

There is a scene about two thirds of the way through Mockingbird, currently playing at the Family Theater at the Kennedy Center, that cuts straight to the emotional core of the play. Mrs. Brook, a school counselor, asks protagonist Caitlin to try to feel empathy for her father. Caitlin, who is on the autistic spectrum, takes Mrs. Brook literally is initially confused. Why would she want try to walk in someone else's shoes? But then, after a moment of thought, Caitlin plunks herself down on the ground, removes her shoes, and slowly smiles as understanding dawns.