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BWW Review: Intense and Compelling IN A WORD at The Hub Theatre

April 7, 2016

For a brief moment when the opening night performance of IN A WORD ended there was quiet.

BWW Review: Ambitious ANTIGONE NOW at Scena Theatre Falls Short of its Potential

March 30, 2016

ANTIGONE NOW is based on the nearly 2,500-year-old Sophocles drama, but in Scena Theatre's hands it could use even more time to gel.

BWW Review: DREAM LOGIC: Aura Curiatlas at the Atlas Performing Arts Center

March 8, 2016

Combine strength and humor, a dash of curiosity, a pinch of whimsy, and a generous dose of inventiveness, mix thoroughly and you have Aura Curiatlas Physical Theatre's compelling brand of storytelling and movement.

BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Synetic Theater

February 22, 2016

Shakespeare's iambic pentameter, the rhythm of his words, echo the human heartbeat: ba-BUM, ba-BUM.

BWW Reviews: PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE at Keegan Theatre

January 22, 2016

BWW Review: Fresh and Exuberant WEST SIDE STORY at Signature Theatre

December 19, 2015

Signature Theatre's WEST SIDE STORY brings freshness and exuberance to the classic work.

BWW Reviews: Moving and Powerful PERICLES at Folger Theatre

November 23, 2015

PERICLES, on stage at the Folger Theatre, is a gorgeous and focused production - this from a work that travels through decades and around the Mediterranean in a plot that layers incest, mistaken death, pirates, murder plots and selling a woman into prostitution.

BWW Review: Big-Hearted and Irreverent AVENUE Q at Constellation Theatre Company

October 30, 2015

AVENUE Q is an irreverent and big-hearted look at life once you've graduated from Sesame Street and from college but Real Life hasn't quite kicked in quite the way you'd envisioned.

BWW Review: Stunning and Provocative SALOME at the Shakespeare Theatre Company

October 17, 2015

SALOME is a visually stunning world premiere that brings us deeply complex characters struggling for command and dignity in one of history's most highly contested strips of land.

BWW Review: UPRISING Premieres at MetroStage

September 23, 2015

UPRISING, premiering at MetroStage, is a powerful and engaging work that asks what choices we make to ensure freedom and for what would we sacrifice it.

BWW Review: NIGHT FALLS ON THE BLUE PLANET Mapping A New World

September 11, 2015

As the wheel spins and two sisters clomp around the board with their plastic cars playing the game of LIFE, we recognize Renee's own life has much higher stakes .

BWW Reviews: IMPOSSIBLE! A HAPPENSTANCE CIRCUS Impossibly Inventive

July 2, 2015

Happenstance Theater's IMPOSSIBLE! is impossibly inventive, whimsical, and tender.

BWW Reviews: LOVE & BOTANY: SIX 10-MINUTE PLAYS at Source Festival

June 11, 2015

Summer in DC brings great opportunities to celebrate and discover new plays, the first of which is CulturalDC's Source Festival, which opened June 5 and runs through June 28 with varied offerings of full-length plays, 10-minute plays and artistic blind dates.

BWW Reviews: DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA Artfully Balances Poetry and Practicality

May 15, 2015

Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea beautifully balances a heightened sense of wonder and allegory with humor and earthy practicality.

BWW Reviews: LETTICE AND LOVAGE at Quotidian Theatre Co.

April 23, 2015

Why let the boring old truth stand in the way of a compelling story? Lettice Douffet lives her life by a code her flamboyant actress mother taught her: 'Enlarge! Enliven! Enlighten!' She eschews "the mere" - the regular, tedious, mundane, or mediocre in life.

BWW Reviews: LAUGH at Studio Theatre

March 19, 2015

Laugh, making its world premiere at Studio Theatre, is the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley.

BWW Reviews: OTHELLO Grapples With the Aftermath of War

February 12, 2015

Shakespeare may not have known Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in his time, but Director Tom Prewitt sees all the classic symptoms in Othello.

BWW Reviews: DUNSINANE In Macbeth's Scotland a Timeless Quest for Justice

February 7, 2015

Dunsinane, presented by The Shakespeare Theatre Company through February 21, shows us that the precarious balance among victor, vanquished, and peace-keeper is a timeless dilemma stretching from Macbeth's heaths to the Iraqi dessert.

BWW Reviews: IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT at No Rules Theatre Company

January 12, 2015

In Love and Warcraft, a new play by Madhuri Shekar at No Rules Theatre Compan,y is full of heart, overflowing with warmth and good humor to balance the challenges of intimacy in a world that does not respond logically to strategy and commands.

BWW Reviews: HOW WE GOT ON Expertly Mixes Authenticity, Rap and Growing Up

November 11, 2014

Hip hop is the beating heart of Forum Theatre's tender coming-of-age story of three suburban teens honing their talents and searching for acceptance and authenticity.