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Review: HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN at Kennedy Center
The producer Larry Klein honored the memory of Leonard Cohen with a 2022 tribute album that had a hushed sensibility and taste, as well as an impressive array of vocalists. Hoping to continue that feel, he began work on an equally fine performance version with the same title, “This is Now: A Tribu...
Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater
Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good. It's refreshing, biting, funny, and relevant. From April 25th to May 19th, under a few trashbags and discarded cups of tea, DC theatre goers may be able to find Spooky Action Theater's production of Frontiers Sans Frontiers....
Review: MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas
What did our critic think of MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas?...
Review: SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY: IMPERMANENCE at The Kennedy Center
A beautifully asynchronous and turbulent super-organism, Impermanence opened its weekend at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater on April 16th....
Review: AMM(I)GONE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The semantics and silence that delineate love and disclosure are operating at full throttle in the probing personal story of playwright and performer Adil Mansoor in the theatrical experience that is entitled Amm(i)gone. As the uber-talented Mansoor invites his very traditional Pakistani mother to t...
Review: HAIR at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre’s revival of the groovy Vietnam-era musical HAIR is wildly energetic, colorful, and full of spirit. The cast’s gorgeous voices and exuberance uplift songs that we know as the soundtrack of the times, from the opening “Aquarius” to the final “Let the Sunshine In.”...
Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS at Opera House/Kennedy Center
Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, The Illusionists brings the fun of magic and the magic of fun at a time when a little voluntary, recreational misdirection sounds like a great idea. Indeed, through the magic of a big screen and a little camera, The Illusionists have solved the problem ...
Review: VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
What did our critic think of TAFFETY PUNK THEATRE COMPANY'S VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company?...
Review: PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at Kennedy Center
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, PASO brought their program, Todo Tango, an intimate and fiery evening of tango to the Kennedy Center. ...
Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater
This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history....
Review: A JUMPING-OFF POINT at Round House Theatre
An exploration of what constitutes the writer’s role and ownership of material, issues of representation in the arts, racial politics and the messiness of friendship and caring are all threshed out in Inda Craig -Galván’s play A Jumping-Off Point. Now being presented at the Round House Theatre,...
Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild
It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.” ...
Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua
You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs. Three hundre...
Review: CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron
What did our critic think of CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron?...
Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage
'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little ...
Review: ISLANDER at Olney Theatre Center
Now on tour, a new musical makes landfall at Olney Theatre Center with a fantastical song worthy of our attention...
Review: MACBETH at Shakespeare Theatre Company
STC’s Macbeth highlights brutal pairs: war and domestic life, grief and humor, brief words and permanent consequences. While the setting could feel unassuming—indeed, audiences must make their way through the parking lot of a Home Depot when arriving via metro—it also shows how extravagant it ...
Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE at Kennedy Center Opera House
Message in a Bottle, a narrative dance work set to music by Sting, with choreography by Kate Prince ranging from hip hop to break dancing to contemporary, is sometimes maddening but often exhilarating....
Review: PETER PAN at Broadway At The National
Growing up, I didn't always have the warmest feelings toward's J.M. Barrie's most famous character. Look at my byline and you can probably figure out why. Yet I thoroughly enjoyed the national tour of 'Peter Pan' at Broadway at the National, which runs through April 21. It's a vibrant, engaging in...
Review: WEBSTER'S BITCH At The Keegan Theatre
What did our critic think of WEBSTER'S BITCH at The Keegan Theatre?...
Review: THE NANCE at 1st Stage
What did our critic think of THE NANCE at 1st Stage?...
Review: CIVILIZING LUSBY at Best Medicine Repertory
A lone man taking on a developer to keep his property. A woman being courted by a man of means favored by her parents and a rogue. A couple whose prosperous appearance masks deep insecurity, secrets, and recriminations. These are all familiar elements, perhaps even cliches, but in Best Medicine Re...
Review: LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO TO THE KENNEDY CENTER at Kennedy Center Opera House
Thursday’s return of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo to the Kennedy Center brought a full house and lots of laughs to the DMV....
Review: STOMP at Capital One Hall
STOMP is here for a brief five-performance run through April 7 at Capital One Hall in Tysons.
In STOMP, anything can be used to drive a beat and set the rhythm. Brooms, trashcans, grocery carts, inner tubes, suitcases – everything including kitchen sinks are objects to play with and explore. Zipp...
Review: Mosaic Theater Company's World Premiere of Nancy
Nancy is a compelling satirical play with themes which still resonate today as Indigenous communities in the U.S. (and around the world) fight to get their land back, advocate for environmental justice, and improve the lives of people within their communities....
Videos
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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Loot Gunston Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
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Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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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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King Lear Kimball Theare (7/29-7/29) |
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How Shakespeare Saved My Life Folger Shakespeare Library (6/09-7/05) PHOTOS |
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HYPER_OBJECT Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center Theater (6/04-6/04) |
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An Evening of Cabaret with Lina Koutrakos and Gregory Toroian Palisades Hub (5/29-5/29) PHOTOS |
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