Review: THE 22+ WEDDINGS OF HUGO at GALA Hispanic Theatre
A comforting and sweet time, The 22+ Weddings of Hugo offers a little taste of everything on the menu.
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Review: MAMMA MIA at Kennedy Center
Jukebox musicals generally fall into one of three categories: tribute shows which try to reproduce the music and staging of an iconic musical act as closely as possible (Rain, the Beatles Tribute, for example), biographical narratives (Beautiful, the Carole King Musical and Ain't Too Proud being two
Review: Bandhouse Gigs 20th Anniversary Tribute to DC Legends at Strathmore
Bandhouse Gigs, an outfit that assembles top local musicians to honor a variety of artists from Bob Dylan to the Stones, began its life outdoors at the Strathmore, honoring Nils Lofgren.
Review: MJ: THE MUSICAL at National Theatre
The myriad music, moods, and motifs of the “king of pop” (not to mention generic mastery of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, disco, and dance-pop) Michael Jackson, are electrifyingly on display in the ingeniously cutting -edge musical MJ: The Musical now playing at the National Theatre.
Review: THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS FAREWELL TOUR at Strathmore
The latest Righteous Brothers farewell tour pulled into the Strathmore in Bethesda Thursday, entertaining an elderly crowd who enjoyed hearing their hits from the 1960s.
Review: SOFT POWER at Signature Theatre
Soft Power at Signature Theatre, is lush and polished, wacky and worrisome, absurdist and cautionary.
Review: New York Circus Project's HAMLET an Exhilarating Debut
We usually associate circuses with acrobats and clowning; it never occurs to us to think of circuses as an art form, with tremendous expressive potential.
Review: Edge Of the Universe Theater's A NUMBER
Edge of the Universe Theater, in association with Avant Bard Theatre, turns up the family drama in an intimate, edgy production of A Number, directed by Stephen Jarrett, starring a real-life father and son.
Review: NINE at Kennedy Center
It’s been 40 years since the national tour of the 1982 Arthur Kopit/Maury Yeston Tony Award winning Broadway musical Nine played at the Kennedy Center.
Review: NOISES OFF at Keegan Theatre
Noises Off remains the hardest to perform play ever written, as well as one of the easiest and most fun to watch.
Review: SUMMERTIME: AWA SAL SECKA SINGS LADIES OF JAZZ at Signature Theatre
The talented actress and sometime playwright has appeared in dozens of shows in D.
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Opera House/Kennedy Center
The DeLorean in the photo looks cute, but the car star of Back to the Future: The Musical (BTTF), at the Kennedy Center through August 11, goes extremely way past cute when Marty McFly and Doc start driving.
Review: THE MOORS at Faction Of Fools
The Faction of Fools Theatre Company specializes in the arcane form of the Italian Renaissance, commedia dell’arte, with elaborate masks, exaggerated movements and a kind of extreme reading of what often are classic texts.
Review: CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL - Dance Highlights at Cafritz Hall And Delirium
While Fringe proudly does not screen for quality, from what this reviewer saw, this year's dance offerings including two strong works and another mediocre one.
Review: MY CAT NAMED LUCY at Capital Fringe Festival
I don’t think anyone will object when I become hyperbolic to say that we, as humans, love our pets.
Review: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Steeped in a European existential sensibility, with healthy doses of theatre of the absurd, and an eerie ambience, --performance artist Julia Masli alternately entrances and provokes the audience with her finely honed comedic skills in the deliciously interactive production entitled ha ha ha ha ha h
Review: LA BOHÈME at Wolf Trap
Directed by John Caird and, for this revival, Katherine M.
Review: WHO DID IT? at Capital Fringe - Theater J
'Who Did It?' is a fun, silly, and engaging experience, and its improvised nature ensures it continues to entertain, even for those who make it an annual tradition.
Review: PONDERING ABOUT MY MEMORIES at Capital Fringe Festival
Rodin Alcerro’s PONDERING ABOUT MY MEMORIES is lush, powerful and deeply moving.
Review: RE: WRITING at Capital Fringe Festival
RE: WRITING is a moving and assured new work at the Capital Fringe Festival.
Review: PARTINGS: DANCES OF LETTING GO at Cafritz Hall
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Review: THE HABER CONUNDRUM at Capital Fringe
The complications of culture, career and conscience cut through fierce nationalistic pride in the heart and mind of the complex and committed Nobel -Prize winner Fritz Haber in the variegated one-person performance of David Kaye in The Haber Conundrum.
Review: PILOBOLUS AT WOLF TRAP'S FILENE CENTER at Wolf Trap
The company's signature athletic partnering and haunting effects were on display across five works whose power was diminished by the same beauty and craft that made them worth noticing.
Review: A GOOD WOMAN By Nerissa Tunnessen and Samantha Xiao Cody at Cafritz Hall
In A Good Woman, a new work of dance theater premiering at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, Nerissa Tunnessen and Samantha Xiao Cody construct a space of rich significance in which they reexamine a classic tale.
Review: LOOKING FOR JUSTICE (IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES) at Bliss - Capital Fringe Festival
Oppenheimer gives a great performance and a wonderful perspective on some of the core issues that many of us struggle with today, but flails a little when she tries to project onto others.
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical Arena Stage (6/12-8/09) |
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Macbeth - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/16-7/25) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Twelfth Night - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/15-7/25) |
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Macbeth Three Notch Theatre (8/06-8/15) |
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The Jersey Four A Tribute to Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons, featuring original member Gerry Polci F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/13-9/13) |
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Josh Groban Wolf Trap (8/22-8/22) |
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Somewhere over the Border Mosaic Theater Company (9/10-10/04) |
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Tosca Wolf Trap (8/07-8/07) |
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Summer Concert Series: EU (Experience Unlimited) McLean Central Park Amphitheater (7/16-7/16) |