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Review: MISTER LINCOLN at Ford's Theatre
Mister Lincoln is a pleasant and ruminative piece on the United States and its history. It's humorous, informative, and for American history buffs, surely spellbinding. Read our critic's take.
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Review: THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH at Taffety Punk
It figures that a Riot Grrrls version of “The Tragedie of Macbeth” at Taffety Punk would focus on the witches - or three wyrd sisters, as they’re called here
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Review: HAMLET...THE REST IS SILENCE at Synetic Theater
What did our critic think of HAMLET...THE REST IS SILENCE at Synetic Theater?...
Review: FAITHLESS at Washington Stage Guild
Faithless asks you to consider what you are committed to, what you believe in, and most of all, why? Faithless made its area debut this September 29th at Washington Stage Guild. The piece follows an older father, Gus (Ron Litman), his two stepchildren, Claire (Patricia Hurley) and Calvin (Ben Black...
Review: WINNIE THE POOH at Imagination Stage
If you ever find yourself in Bethesda, Maryland, with children, you should also find your way to Imagination Stage. ...
Review: MARLENE at ExPats Theatre
What did our critic think of MARLENE at ExPats Theatre?...
Review: CRACKING ZEUS at Spooky Action Theater
What did our critic think of CRACKING ZEUS at Spooky Action Theater?...
Review: Sara Bareilles with the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center
The Four Seasons had a hit song many years ago with a lyric that went “Oh! What a Night!” That is how I can best describe watching singer/songwriter/actress Sara Bareilles with YOUR National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), under the always stellar direction of Maestro Steven Reineke in Kennedy Center�...
Review: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE at Studio Theatre
But the new play by Dave Harris at Studio Theater is framed the same way: Six people marooned in an afterschool detention classroom on the Friday before Martin Luther King weekend, who bicker, flirt, nearly fight, and wonder if the presiding teacher will ever come to sign forms allowing them to go h...
Review: SHREK THE MUSICAL at Capital One Hall
What did our critic think of SHREK THE MUSICAL at Capital One Hall?...
Review: PRIMARY TRUST at Signature Theatre
Primary Trust is a touching, intimate, and deeply affecting work. The 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winner is making its Washington-area premiere at Signature Theatre in an outstanding production directed by Obie Award winner Taylor Reynolds....
Review: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Nu Sass Productions
What happens to the characters in a play when they’re not on stage? Do they continue to exist in a narrative limbo outside of time? Does the paradox of characters without stories parallel how we struggle to find meaning in life’s entrances and exits?...
Review: CLUE at The Kennedy Center
CLUE: LIVE ON STAGE! at The Kennedy Center Opera House is a sharp and breezy murder-mystery farce right at home in DC says BWW's critic.
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Review: DISTRICT CHOREOGRAPHER'S DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 at Dance Place
What did our critic think of DISTRICT CHOREOGRAPHER'S DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 at Dance Place?...
Review: SOJOURNERS at Round House Theatre
Nigerian ancestry, and American ideals clash, merge, and play off each other in Sojourners by playwright Mfoniso Udofia -this deeply moving play is part of the epic nine-play Ufot Cycle which follows a Nigerian American family through many cycles of life and generations. This production, presented b...
Review: Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming at Wolf Trap
Every once in a while, you see the billing for a concert and think to yourself “That’s an interesting combination”. This was my exact thought at Wolf Trap with Broadway superstars Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming on the same bill. Don’t get me wrong, their talent is not to be questioned. I...
Review: THE COMEUPPANCE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Themes of identity, bonding, loss, self-realization and especially death permeate the numerous layers of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ thought-provoking play The Comeuppance. This penetrating work explores so many layers that it is best to let the experience take you where it will. The high school reuni...
Review: COMEDY OF ERRORS at Shakespeare Theatre Comany
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has opened its 2024-2025 season with a fun, frothy, beautifully rendered Comedy of Errors by the theatre’s “resident playwright” William Shakespeare and directed by the company’s artistic director, Simon Godwin. Godwin layers visual and aural punch to keep the...
Review: ECHOES OF AMERICA at Kennedy Center
The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) began their classical season this past Saturday evening in a very satisfying manner. The program was entitled Echoes of America and was conducted by the Artistic Director of The Washington Chorus Eugene Rogers....
Review: THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage
What did our critic think of THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage?...
Review: JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING at Arena Stage
What did our critic think of JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING at Arena Stage?...
Review: OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME at Studio Theatre
What did our critic think of OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME at Studio Theatre?...
Review: Cirque Du Soleil's OVO at Capital One Arena
Cirque Du Soleil is one of those attractions that is not easily explained because it has elements from many entertainment genres. Their shows have a very theatrical quality to them while melding circus elements in as well. At their core is fine storytelling, really good production values and dazzlin...
Review: HEATHER HEADLEY with the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center
When summer ends many people get depressed. Let’s face it, you can’t go to the beach or your private summer home for another year. However, you can look on the bright side of things knowing that the end of summer brings a new season of audible brilliance from the mighty National Symphony Orchest...
Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL at Mosaic Theater Company
The celebrated and now-iconic jazz vocalist and legend Billie Holiday is portrayed as a tormented “just holding on” survivor in playwright Lanie Robertson’s play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. The audience is transported back to the feel of this classic bar and grill to the year 1959 w...
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Loot Gunston Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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How Shakespeare Saved My Life Folger Shakespeare Library (6/09-7/05) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Disney’s The Lion King JR Hylton Performing Arts Center (6/26-6/28) |
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