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Review: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE at Arena Stage
Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence was published about a week before she was able to vote for the first time in 1920. The following year, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Now, playwright Karen Zacarías has adapted Wharton's complex tragedy of manners into Arena's eleg...
Review: THE SCENARIOS at Studio Theatre
The play The Scenarios successfully proves the fact that it is impossible to fit the messiness and vagaries of life into the role-playing scenarios (that are well-intentioned) that society often employs to help with remediation and beneficial effects. This World Premiere that is being presented by S...
Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Contemporary dance choreographer and company founder Dana Tai Soon Burgess produced the dance concert “An Asian American Dance Journey” for a three-day run at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. While it is the company’s 32nd year in production, it was their first year collaborating with and d...
Review: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center?...
Review: Joe's Emporium Moves and Informs with OUT OF THE VINEYARD
Working from a series of oral history recordings, playwright Psalmayene 24 has assembled a truly moving piece of theatre that brings the many voices of Prince Georges’ past and present to bear witness, and bring to light struggles that we (or I, at least) knew nothing about.
Director Tony Thomas ...
Review: SHUCKED at The National Theatre
A real treat, and going soon, Shucked is a conventional but still fresh musical riding into town from Broadway on a tractor....
Review: DREW AND ELLIE HOLCOMB: MEMORY BANK TOUR at Lincoln Theatre
I first came to know the talents of Ellie Holcomb when my wife and I were on vacation in Nashville and saw her blow a hole in the roof at Ryman Auditorium. Her pixie like quality, superb vocals and true musicianship introduced me to a true talent in contemporary Christian music and beyond. Her singe...
Review: THE OTHER CHILDREN OF THE SUN at The Kennedy Center
Just weeks after Trump deposed much of The Kennedy Center's board of trustees and replaced them with his supporters (who subsequently elected him as the board's chair) and off the heels of the White House's statement that 'The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke,' The Other Child...
Review: KUNENE AND THE KING at Shakespeare Theatre Company
'Kunene and the King' is a captivating and moving examination of character and society. It also feels particularly timely for American audiences to explore, while helping us all connect a bit better by urging us to truly see each other....
Review: Washington Ballet's TRANSCENDANCE at The Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of THE WASHINGTON BALLET'S TRANSCENDANCE at Kennedy Center?...
Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS Now Playing at Creative Cauldron
What did BroadwayWorld's critic think of STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Creative Cauldron? Learn more about the production here, and read the review. STEEL MAGNOLIAS runs from now until March 9, 2025....
Review: IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
In Washington Heights, Usnavi (Ángel Lozada) sings to us about life in the neighborhood while carrying out his day-to-day activities involved in operating his bodega (“In the Heights”). There’s Sonny (Nicolas Garza), the young aspiring entrepreneur who helps Usnavi run things; Abuela Claudia ...
Review: THE FIGS at Rorschach Theatre
Theater-goers searching for something off the beaten path may find their curiosity satiated at Rorschach Theatre’s production of The Figs, on stage now through March 16. ...
Review: WAITRESS at Olney Theatre Center
From the moment MALINDA appears on stage as Jenna in Waitress at Olney Theatre Center, it's clear that this is a role she was born to play. She lights up the stage, her beautiful singing voice and sublime acting leading a stellar & impressive cast....
Review: THE BEDWETTER at Arena Stage
Based on comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter uses brazen humor to explore themes of broken family bonds, depression, and being different....
Review: ABT'S CRIME AND PUNISHMENT at Kennedy Center
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) regularly brings new story ballets to DC for their Kennedy Center performances and this year was no different. Crime and Punishment, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, premiered in New York in the fall and is the first full-length ballet by a female choreographer ...
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Constellation Theatre
The title is not a typo. Hey, what are the odds? Could it be kismet, a prearranged theatrical landing spot, or totally happenstance? And if we cosmically reset the situation, would it happen again in the same way? Would we want it to happen the same way?...
Review: FUENTEOVEJUNA at GALA Hispanic Theatre
Written in 1613 by Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna is widely considered a masterpiece by the most influential playwright from Spain’s golden age. The play depicts a town revolting against tyrannical rule during a period of countrywide political unrest, based on the real events of the Fuenteovejuna vil...
Review: HAND TO GOD at Keegan Theatre
The audacious and lively play Hand to God is a daring and yet, an oddly compelling and textured meditation, on society’s hypocrisies set within a more intimate framework of five characters whose minds are tortured with clashes between reason and fiery lust -driven passions. This play makes the pup...
Review: THE GARBOLOGISTS at Theater Alliance
It’s fitting that the Theater Alliance’s terrific new offering “The Garbologists” is presented in a temporary pop-up in the sprawling ground floor of a new apartment building — an industrial, no-frills empty retail space that could serve as a truck garage for the two workers featured in Li...
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM C at the Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM C at Kennedy Center?...
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM B at the Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM B at Kennedy Center?...
Review: PATTI LUPONE: A LIFE IN NOTES at Strathmore
In the late 1960s (in her late 60s), cabaret étoile Mabel Mercer added the utterly goofy 'Wait 'til We're 65' (by Lerner & Lane) to her sets; when she was well past 50, Barbara Cook began including Harper & Zippel's wildly funny 'The Ingenue' to her shows, simultaneously sending up her rivals and a...
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The Kennedy Center Opera House – February 4th
The excitement was overflowing in The Kennedy Center Opera House as the annual Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater program began. The audience was so heavily anticipating the start that they found every excuse to cheer — they even applauded the sponsor acknowledgement. ...
Review: NATIVE GARDENS at NextStop Theatre Company
There isn’t anything quite like the dynamics between neighbors. You either are best friends with your neighbors, know them in passing, or they are strangers. In NextStop Theatre’s production of Native Gardens, written by Karen Zacarías and directed by Elena Velasco, Pablo (Gabriel Alejandro) an...
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
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OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
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A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Sister Act" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (6/27-7/12) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |
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The Outsiders Kennedy Center Opera House (8/01-8/01) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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The Roaring Girl Spooky Action Theater (6/05-6/27) |
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