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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”).
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.
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.
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Constellation Theatre
The title is not a typo.
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.
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.
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.
Review: NATIVE GARDENS at NextStop Theatre Company
There isn’t anything quite like the dynamics between neighbors.
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