BWW Review: Open Circle Returns with THE WHO's TOMMY
'Tommy,' the groundbreaking 1969 set by the Who that it dubbed a rock opera, finds a new dimension in the Open Circle Theatre production in Silver Spring.
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BWW Review: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION at Keegan
More than 25 years after it was first staged, 'Six Degrees of Separation,' John Guare's sly tale of a young con man captivating and ultimately fooling an upper East Side couple, seems almost like a period piece.
BWW Review: San Francisco Ballet's Splendid CINDERELLA at Kennedy Center
Before ballet stages everywhere become crowded with nutcrackers and their gala holiday accouterments, there is still time for other sturdy folk tales of enchantment set to Russian music and popular with children with which to spin off imaginative ballets.
BWW Review: KISS is Not Just a Kiss at Woolly Mammoth
I wish you could see 'Kiss' at Woolly Mammoth Theatre the way I did: Without a lot of advance insight, no prior research and only the vague knowledge it was an adaptation of a foreign play.
BWW Review: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING at Arena
One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones.
BWW Review: Powerful ILIAD at Taffety Punk
By now the world is used to inhumane aberrations like ten-year wars.
BWW Review: DANTE'S INFERNO a Spectacle at Synetic Theater
Those people building ambitious commercial haunted houses this month might just call if quits when they see how much they've been outdone by the inventiveness and intent of Synetic Theater's 'Dante's Inferno.
BWW Review: Flying V's BE AWESOME: A THEATRICAL MIXTAPE OF THE 90s
Music streaming services allow kids these days to put together digital playlists for every mood or activity.
BWW Review: Amusing THE LAST SCHWARTZ at Theater J
'The Last Schwartz,' a play that's perfectly suited for Theater J, is certainly a familiar trope for its audience: Somebody brings home a non-Jewish women to a solemn family occasion fraught with religious underpinnings.
BWW Review: Caryl Churchill's CLOUD 9 Soars at Studio
If Studio Theatre has a go-to playwright, it's been Caryl Churchill, the award-winning British innovator and provocateur, whose season-opening 'Cloud 9' at the theater is as brash and challenging as anything on area stages, and yet was first written over 30 years ago.
BWW Review: UCB Theatre's WE KNOW HOW YOU DIE! at Woolly Mammoth
New York's UCB Theatre, which grew out of a small group of comics you know in the Upright Citizens Brigade, now contains hundreds of performers you don't know putting on scores of different comedies, sketch shows, online shows and all manner of improv shows at what are now a handful of stages.
BWW Review: HAND TO GOD's Puppet Ministry Gone Wild at Studio
The long ride up the elevator to Studio Theater's Stage 4 is certainly rewarded in the regional premiere of Robert Askins' Broadway hit Hand to God.
BWW Review: Discovering ANOTHER WAY HOME at Theater J
Summer means camp, and so it is at Theater J, which has been decked out in pine board, nature paintings and signs made of sticks for its closing production of the season, Another Way Home by Anna Ziegler.
BWW Review: CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Preview Night
With more than 130 different productions being staged over three weeks at 20 different venues, the Capital Fringe festival can be an overwhelming undertaking.
BWW Review: The Second City's ALMOST ACCURATE GUIDE TO AMERICA at the Kennedy Center
Love it or hate it, the whodunit farce Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center represented D.
BWW Review: THE GOOD DEVIL (IN SPITE OF HIMSELF) at WSC Avant Bard
It turns out that there's a reason that WSC Avant Bard's production of The Good Devil (In Spite of Himself starts 15 minutes late.
BWW Review: STATIC at Source Festival
Static is just the kind of play you might expect from a former longtime sound theatrical sound designer.
BWW Review: Tumultuous RIVERRUN at Kennedy Center's IRELAND 100
In a couple of weeks, another Bloomsday will be celebrated, and James Joyce's Ulysses will be read aloud by fans of Irish literature worldwide.
Puppet Takeover at 32nd HELEN HAYES AWARDS
Constellation Theatre's adult puppet musical Avenue Q swept the 32nd annual Helen Hayes Awards honoring professional theater in Washington, D.
BWW Review: LIVEartDC Toasts THE MERRY DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD
Close-up magic, where the cards and tricks fly right under a viewer's nose, is always quite effective.
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