WASHINGTON, DC THEATER REVIEWS

The production is definitely high-energy fun for the youngest of theatregoers....

At the end of the day, PETER PAN AND WENDY is a great family show with some solid acting and design work. It's another victory for Imagination Stage....

Janis Joplin is alive and well and living in DC for the summer at Arena Stage until August 11, 2013....

Three cast members of the Academy Award winning film present fascinating stories about the making of the film WEST SIDE STORY....

Restoration comedy ends Everyman's hugely successful inaugural season....

Sondheim's masterpiece is given riveting production and should not be missed....

Flying V Theatre, which we last saw with their loose and loopy 'Pirate Laureate of Port Town,' has created an unforgettable evening of theatre that touches you in more ways than you imagined possible. The standing ovation I witnessed last weekend was well deserved, and I hope is just one of many f...

Even if there are some missteps, I give Landless Theatre Company applause for the ambition alone and daring to do something a bit different....

Under the taut and subtle direction of Shirley Serotsky and graced with a tremendously talented class, Theater J's The Hampton Years is nothing short of a triumph. Local playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton has given us a vital part of our history back-the humble but compelling beginnings of two towerin...

Judging by this concert, it's easy to see why Celtic Woman is a worldwide sensation....

It may not be 1934 anymore, but ANYTHING GOES, running now through July 7 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., proves that classics just get better with age....

Thanks to a triple threat cast with energy to spare, this silly show is one to see!...

COMPANY at Signature Theatre is electrifying and brilliant. Director Eric Schaeffer's return to COMPANY - after 20 years - may well be considered among his finest directorial achievements. Sondheim is often called 'Signature's signature.' COMPANY, now playing through June 30, shows us why. If we gav...

When newly-minted Round House Theatre Producing Artistic Director Ryan Rilette announced that Gina Gionoffrido's Becky Shaw would replace another show - selected by his predecessor - in the theatre company's current season, I was pretty interested to see how it would turn out. I had the chance to ch...

Angsty, raw, and real, this play does not shy away from the hard, but well-discussed philosophical questions about art, reality, love and life and what it all means....

A wealth of talent has come together to produce The Guardsman at the Kennedy Center. It is a handsome production, worthy of any stage in the nation. Playwright and translator Richard Nelson has created a multi-layered dramatic comedy based closely on Ferenc Molnar's original 1910 play. With directi...

Forum Theatre's production of this riveting drama is - like the company itself - ambitious, heartfelt, and raw....

Crisp and witty, with an impeccable cast and sleek production values, Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING at Studio Theatre will delight theatregoers who have long wished Stoppard would stop all his intellectual and political mind-bending and get down to the personal business of love once and for all....

Artisitic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah successfully adds his play to the 'Raisin Cycle'....

There's music, dance, comedy, tragedy, great performances but it just seems to take forever....

Tony-winning musical brings a breath of fresh air to dinner theatre patrons....

The production was real, raw, and unflinching. Artistic Director Kuchar says he chooses shows that will inspire kids and cause them to think. This show certainly does that and can also impact the audience. Kudos to this wonderful program....

Packed audience at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall hears a perfomrance to treasure....

KAT is nothing if not ambitious....

Simply put, Synetic Theater's current production of The Three Musketeers (playing now through June 9th) completely, in every way, stands up to all that Synetic Theater proposes to offer by way of a "dynamic synthesis of the arts". Frankly, Synetic knocks it out of the park. Out of the city. Out of ...