The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Washington, DC.
Elliot Lanes
Abby Korb
Aidan O'Connor
Andrew White
Audrey Cahak
Brian Bochicchio
David Friscic
Doug Poms
Jackson Malmgren
Jake Bridges
Laurie Sara Oliver
Lora Strum
Mary Lincer
Pamela Roberts
Rachael F. Goldberg
Roger Catlin
Remounting a work originally presented at Woolly Mammoth's rehearsal room earlier this year, the Alliance for New Music-Theatre now brings their original adaptation of METAMORPHOSIS to the new Capital Fringe performance venue.
Factory 449's Washington, DC premiere of Radha Bharadwaj's CLOSET LAND is, in many ways, the kind of theatre that truly excites me.
Indian playwright Girish Karnad's play 'The Fire and the Rain' is now receiving a spectacular North American premiere at Constellation Theatre.
In Lov: American Style, Rennie Harris, the prolific hip-hop choreographer, declares that hip-hop must maintain perpetual relevance.
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.
Men dressing as women is an art form as old as Shakespeare.
There's a full house of sexy talent holding court over at Studio Theatre these days, and it's not limited to the four actors starring in Murder Ballad, an immersive work of theater being given an impressive DC production through June (the show was produced Off Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club
Gallim can be translated from Hebrew to mean "heaps.
THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, although relatable for many audiences, leaves one unsatisfied.
AFTER THE REVOLUTION and 4000 MILES are both directed by Lila Neugebauer and it's quite the experience.
Armed with a new, more relevant, adaptation by Annie Baker, director John Vreeke has pulled together a lively and energetic take on Chekov that is a hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
Sadness and joy is a recurring motif in music.
Imagination Stage creates a vivid production that, thankfully, gives its young audiences a glimpse of a world that exists beyond current events, and revels in magic and stories.
Everyman presents Henrik Ibsen's 1882 tragedy.
Arena Stage has a gem in Christopher Durang's Tony Award winning play VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE.
Grab some children - or kids at heart - and make your way to Adventure Theatre MTC for their new version of Baum's popular tale, here called THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ.
NextStop Theatre Company gives us a smartly staged, beautifully sung production of THE SECRET GARDEN that reminds its audiences of the hope and new beginnings of spring.
With so many Sondheim revues, this begs the question of whether there is room or a need for yet another one.
At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, strong direction by Company Member Michael John Garces and tour-de-force acting performances from all three cast members bring out the best of Beckim's tightly written script.
Barbara Cook's Spotlight Series at The Kennedy Center has served as an incredible showcase for some of Broadway's greatest talent to take a smaller stage.
Although Jessica Lang Dance was founded in 2011, Artistic Director Jessica Lang is no newcomer to the dance scene.
I could probably write a one sentence review of Audra McDonald's concert at Bethesda's magnificent Music Center at Strathmore that would sum up my reaction quite well.
At the end of a season of "origins and migrations" the Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program transports audiences to late 1990's Australia, where a diverse cast of characters struggles with loss, upheaval, and interminable drought in Slow Falling Bird
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (6/12-8/09) |
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Macbeth - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/16-7/25) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Twelfth Night - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/15-7/25) |
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Misery Aldie Mill Historic Park (8/20-8/30) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "Lettice & Lovage" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (1/29-2/07) |
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Penny's Dreadful Parlour: The Séance of Edgar Allan Poe The Ghost Museum (7/16-7/25) VIDEOS |
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Gershwin, Bernstein & American Mosaic Wolf Trap (8/15-8/15) |
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Nickelodeon's The SpongeBob Musical Three Notch Theatre (7/10-8/02) |
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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre ARTfactory (9/11-9/20) |
