Review: THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage
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Review: JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING at Arena Stage
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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.
Review: HEATHER HEADLEY with the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center
When summer ends many people get depressed.
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.
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.
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.
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GARBO: EL ACTOR QUE SAVÓ AL MUNDO (Garbo: The Actor Who Saved The World) GALA Hispanic Theatre (9/03-9/27) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Misery Aldie Mill Historic Park (8/20-8/30) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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Grand Kyiv Ballet presents "The Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (11/18-11/18) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (10/24-10/24) |
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Dracula's Midnight Masquerade George C. Marshall's Dodona Manor (10/16-11/01) PHOTOS VIDEOS |
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BAD KREYÒL Mosaic Theater Company (5/20-6/13) |
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7th Street Echo Mosaic Theater Company (3/25-4/18) |
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Josh Johnson DAR Constitution Hall (10/02-10/02) |