Review: SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy
What did our critic think of SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy?
Washington, DC Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Washington, DC.
Review: DUA: THE MONSTER'S STORY at Theatre Prometheus
In DUA: THE MONSTER’S STORY, written and directed by Robin Berl, the classic story of Medusa is retold, giving the monster the chance to tell her own tragic tale.
Review: DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center?
Review: THE HELLO GIRLS at Terrace Theater/Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of THE HELLO GIRLS at Terrace Theater/Kennedy Center? The Hello Girls tells the notable story of the 223 female telephone operators who served in the Army Signal Corps during World War I.
Review: REEFER MADNESS at NextStop Theatre Company
'Reefer Madness' is an incredibly smart and pointed show impersonating something far more pedestrian, and NextStop Theatre Company manages to capture this perfectly without ever feeling overproduced or trite.
Review: HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard
What did our critic think of HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard?
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.
Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater
Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good.
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.
Review: HAIR at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre’s revival of the groovy Vietnam-era musical HAIR is wildly energetic, colorful, and full of spirit.
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.
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.
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.
Review: CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron
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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.
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.
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.
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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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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre ARTfactory (9/11-9/20) |
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Natural History Mosaic Theater Company (1/21-2/07) |
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Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Glorious Musical Jewels – Beethoven and Schubert Center for the Arts (10/11-10/11) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (9/26-9/26) |
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ArmEvents presents: An Evening of Elegance & Virtuosity Live Concert F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/12-9/12) |
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Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents "The Merry Widow" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (2/26-3/07) |