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Review: BABBITT at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Matthew Broderick stars in the Babbitt of BABBITTs at Shakespeare Theatre Company. See what our critic had to say.

Exclusive: First Look at Matthew Broderick in Shakespeare Theatre Company's BABBITT

Get a first look at Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Babbitt. Based on Sinclair Lewis’s classic satirical novel, the play was adapted from the book by Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro and directed by Tony Award-winner Christopher Ashely, who together developed the world premiere production of the play last season at La Jolla Playhouse, alongside star Matthew Broderick.

Review: MARLENE at ExPats Theatre

What did our critic think of MARLENE at ExPats Theatre?

Photos: World Premiere Of Jordan E. Cooper's OH HAPPY DAY! At Baltimore Center Stage

Baltimore Center Stage is opening its 2024/25 season with the world premiere of two-time Tony Nominee Jordan E. Cooper’s new play with music, OH HAPPY DAY! Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Review: COMEDY OF ERRORS at Shakespeare Theatre Comany

The Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its 2024-2025 season with a fun, frothy, beautifully rendered Comedy of Errors by the theatre’s “resident playwright” William Shakespeare and directed by the company’s artistic director, Simon Godwin. Godwin layers visual and aural punch to keep the pace lively – including a band of versatile on-stage musician storytellers.

Review: THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage

What did our critic think of THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage?

Review: POTUS Delivers Gross Hilarity at Everyman Theatre

This is almost certainly the funniest thing you’re likely to see all year. Leave your delicate sensibilities behind and go.

Review: THE COLORED MUSEUM at Studio Theatre

It’s hard to imagine the impact George C. Wolfe’s razor-sharp satire “The Colored Museum” must have had when it opened in New York nearly 40 years ago. 

Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROL KING MUSICAL at Olney Theatre Center

The fascinating story of one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th Century, flawless presented by a sublimely talented cast.

Review: POSTCARDS FROM IHATOV at 1st Stage

This is the premise for 1st Stage’s production of Postcards from Ihatov, adapted and directed by Natsu Onoda Power. Postcards from Ihatov is a captivating exploration of Kenji Miyazawa’s works and life.

Review: ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Rose: You Are Who You Eat is an irreverent (yet, concurrently, affectionate) look at a performer/cabaret artist’s autobiographical impulse and gender identity questions/affirmations set against the metaphor of cannibalism as a “who gets devoured?”/”feasting/ingestion”  metaphor ---that plays into “double entendres” on family, the role of the mother and the individual evolving in the womb. This extremely quixotic and subversive play by ultra-creative performer and writer John Jarboe celebrates queerness while “riffing -off” on themes of memory, trying to connect to identity and breaking through dissonance into a celebration of the autonomous self.

Review: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Keegan Theatre

What did our critic think of THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Keegan Theatre?

Review: LONG WAY DOWN at Olney Theatre Center

On May 25th, Olney Theatre Center unveiled the world premiere of the musical Long Way Down at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The piece was adapted from Jason Reynolds's novel of the same name, which has received accolades such as the National Book Award and a Newbery Medal, and was written (books, music, and lyrics) by Dahlak Brathwaite, with additional writing (books, music, and lyrics) by Khiyon Hursey. 

Review: AMM(I)GONE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

The semantics and silence that delineate love and disclosure are operating at full throttle in the probing personal story of playwright and performer Adil Mansoor in the theatrical experience that is entitled Amm(i)gone. As the uber-talented Mansoor invites his very traditional Pakistani mother to translate Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu, one soon realizes that this is just the starting point of a very interactive theatrical exploration that soon unspools into a multi -layered explication of the issues of culture, faith, family, history and, most especially, the special bond between a mother and a son.

Interview: Theatre Life with Judy Kuhn

Today’s subject Judy Kuhn is known to musical theatre aficionados from her performances in Rags, Chess, Fun Home and more on Broadway. Currently this off the charts performer is living her theatre life at Arena Stage in Unknown Soldier in the role of Lucy Anderson. The production runs through May 5th in the Kreeger.

Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage

'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little dissatisfying, as life itself often is.

Photos: First Look At UNKNOWN SOLDIER At Arena Stage

See first look photos of Kerstin Anderson, Perry Sherman, Adam Chanler-Berat, Lora Lee Gayer, Nehal Joshi, and Judy Kuhn in the musical Unknown Soldier, having its D.C. premiere in Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater, through May 5, 2024.

Review: THE NANCE at 1st Stage

What did our critic think of THE NANCE at 1st Stage?

Review: MIGRAAAAANTS OR: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT! at ExPats Theatre

What did our critic think of MIGRAAAAANTS OR: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT! at ExPats Theatre?

Review: AVAAZ at Olney Theatre Center

Olney Theatre Center's AVAAZ charts one woman's journey from Tehran to 'Tehran-geles,' singing a bombastic song of freedom all the way.