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BWW Review: THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN Compels at Theater J
When the foreign correspondent Paul Watson snapped a grisly photo in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, he'd receive both a prize and a curse.
BWW Review: WNO's Next Chapter in THE RING: SIEGFRIED
In the third installment of the Washington National Opera's mammoth staging of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung at the Kennedy Center, a new Brunnhilde awakens, Fafner's dragon turns out to be more of a monster truck, and the titular star of the work, Siegfried, turns out to be much more of
BWW Review: Superb Sub in WNO's THE VALKYRIE
Ten years of planning and $10 million in production costs couldn't prevent the Washington National Opera from pleasing all the gods in its ambitious staging of all four operas in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.
BWW Review: HUGO BALL: A Dada Puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!??
It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada.
BWW Review: UrbanArias' Pleasing AFTER LIFE / JOSEPHINE
What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers?
BWW Review: Stage Guild's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS, AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD
One of the funnier political bits of the season was one Bill Maher did last fall on 'The King Trump Bible,' reinterpreting the text using the pithy phrases of crude frontrunner.
BWW Review: Mournful FALLING OUT OF TIME at Theater J
Siri, the electronic personal assistant installed on every iPhone, can be helpful in very many areas, but has heretofore has yet to be recognized for theater criticism.
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Rocks Like 2004
It seems like a howling musical about disaffected citizens rising up could be perfectly adapted for our confounding political times.
BWW Review: Compelling PROMISED LAND from Mosaic
It might be inviting this jammed political year to escape all the televised debates, town halls and election coverage and simply take in a play.
BWW Review: Brisk, Moving CONSTELLATIONS at Studio
Quantum physics and string theory are recent enough areas of study to still blow the minds of physicists and be a complete mystery to those unfamiliar with the science.
BWW Review: Bristling A CITY OF CONVERSATION at Arena
When Anthony Giardina's The City of Conversation opened at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2014, the depiction of a Georgetown political salon seemed so perfectly reflective of Washington, Arena Stage's Molly Smith rushed to get it staged here, and even succeeded in obtaining the same director,
BWW Review: FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS at Round House
Suzan-Lori Parks has made her name updating Civil War lore in striking modernist terms in Topdog/Underdog, the Pulitzer Prize winner from 2001, the same year she won a MacArthur 'genius' grant.
BWW Review: Folger's Delightful MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Nobody's quite sure of the birthdate of the greatest writer in the English language, but everyone is pretty sure William Shakespeare died in 1616, making this the 400th anniversary of his death, or as Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library calls it, 'the fifth century of his aft
BWW Review: Washington Stage Guild vs. Critics in ST. NICHOLAS
I was all ready and looking forward to the final installment of Back to Methuselah, the George Bernard Shaw epic that the Washington Stage Guild has been staging in chapters since 2014.
BWW Review: Powerful I SHALL NOT HATE at Mosaic
Artistic director Ari Roth's dream of a vibrant and important theater group addressing the most vexing problems of the world, is coming to full flower this year at the Mosaic Theater Company, where he has revived the Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival that he developed at Jewish Community C
BWW Review: HANSEL AND GRETEL Wander Into Kennedy Center
Every artistic company wishes it could come up with a seasonal title that could be come a holiday tradition - their own Nutcracker, Messiah or Christmas Carol to rely on every December.
BWW Review: A VERY POINTLESS HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR
Christmas productions come sweet or sour this time or year.
BWW Review: Pain and Humor in SONS OF THE PROPHET at Theater J
It's not easy to maintain a balance in dark comedy.
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