WASHINGTON, DC THEATER REVIEWS

The framing device for 'Not by Bread Alone' is the baking of bread, an activity that is labor-intensive at first but which also allows plenty of time for family and friends to hang out and swap stories while the dough rises, with more tales to tell when it goes in to bake. The bulk of 'Not by Bread...

As a part of this month's international theater festival at the Kennedy Center, audiences have had a rare opportunity to meet directors of some of the world's most innovative companies -and a personal highlight for me was having the chance to meet Adina Tal, founder of the Nalaga'at Theater Deaf-Bli...

Written in the late 1950's in a fine post-graduate frenzy, Kopit's play was inspired as much by the European avant-garde as by the angst of the Eisenhower years. Director Tyler Herman has done a great job in his first production, creating the anarchic, bizarre feel that Kopit's play requires, with ...

THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, appearing in Italian at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a feast for the ears and eyes. Donizetti's comic tale will appeal to both opera buffs and lovers of Broadway musicals hoping to expand into opera....

This one has some promise, but we're not quite there....

The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes brings audiences a dark but thoroughly engaging and humorous look into the end of days through brilliantly detailed puppetry performance....

Poetry on stage. That's what it is....

Bruce Randolph Nelson and Carl Schurr are both outstanding in a play about the theater....

HAIR, at Washington, DC's Keegan Theatre, features an exuberant cast, clever staging and direction, rollicking music, and nostalgia, but some of the directors' choices are questionable....

Kennedy Center showcases more than a dozen productions from around the globe for the 2014 festival that continues through March 30, 2014. Tapioca Inn, a vibrant theatre company from Mexico, contributed to the 2014 World Stages International Theater Festival with a bold rendering of INCENDIOS. Layer...

Tony winning composer performs and conducts SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD with the Young Artists of America....

As part of the Kennedy Center's World Stages, International Theater Festival, the National Theatre of Iceland, presented this tragic tale of the love and loss in a riveting 90-minute performance in the Terrace Theater. Written by Icelandic playwright Mikael Torfason, the play starts as the audience ...

The overall decision to shift back to Synetic's roots for the occasion? I'd say it is a good one....

Who knew that a romp through the Austrian countryside could leave one so bedazzled?...

This one is for the books!...

The Kennedy Center's international theater festival got off to a truly moving start, thanks to a three-evening visit from Peter Brook's company, Theatre des Bouffes du Nord and their touring production of Can Themba's short story, "The Suit." Set in South Africa, in the suburban village of Sophiato...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's life is given a humorous presentation...

A first-rate production indeed!...

Tonight, Brian D'Arcy James made me fall in love with him all over again. One of the stars gracing the Kennedy Center stage in Barbara Cook's Spotlight Series, he brought his warm presence and glorious sound to the nation's capital....

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra previews next season with highlights....

Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer once again demonstrates his success with new musicals....

The good news is, fifteen years later the songs are still being sung beautifully. The touring company that is briefly visiting the nation's capital sure enough has the audience dancing in the aisles by the time they wrap things up....

The pleasures of WSC Avant-Bard's production are many, beginning with Sara Barker's brilliant embodiment of Virginia Woolf's hero/heroine. One of English literature's most enduring labors of love, the stage version of 'Orlando' also gives us a glimpse of Sarah Ruhl early in her career, adapting Woo...

Given its long history of producing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, it was inevitable that the Washington Stage Guild would someday attempt to mount Shaw's monumental, impossible play cycle, Back to Methuselah. Methuselah tilts at the usual ideological windmills, with a fanciful dash of futurism ...