WASHINGTON, DC THEATER REVIEWS

A sophisticated, slightly sweet, and satiric tone sweeps over the characters of the luxuriously professional production of the musical Some Like it Hot, now touring at the National Theatre. From the moment that the show opens with the ode to self-gratification and excess “What Are You Thirsty For?...

Fresh from an Australia tour, the boys, who have been together for most of 8 years, put on a scaled down show that combined Christmas favorites with classic drinking and parting of ways songs....

'Accused!' will appeal to mystery buffs and casual fans alike. It is funny, absorbing, and has more than a few parallels to the contemporary political scene.  The production runs just over two hours with an intermission....

THE SNOWMAN AND THE SNOWDOG is a loved, British animated short children’s film and you can now see it acted out on stage at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD....

Champions of Magic: Holiday Spectacular isn’t really a holiday show; it’s more of a love letter to magic. ...

Hadestown is a song you’ll want to hear again and again and again and again. And the cast of the national tour sings it in a way that honors the original yet rings with a sound all their own....

This holiday season Olney Theatre Center's Hello, Dolly! gives audiences a chance to see a rarely performed classic on the Roberts Mainstage, in an entertaining production that harks back to the Golden Age of Broadway musicals....

The autobiographical world of playwright Paula Vogel comes alive in the illuminating and fragilely evocative “tone poem” of a play entitled The Mother Play at the Studio Theatre. This very moving and occasionally caustic play explores all the hard issues of life in a family—such as death, illn...

Julia Masli was a hit when she first came to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre for her 2024 one-woman performance piece “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,” soliciting problems from the audience and conjuring community, whimsy and sometimes magic on the way to solving them....

The world première of November 4 has opened just after the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995. It is a mitzvah that there are now no longer Israeli hostages and a shande that, as the script of November 4 pointedly notes, Israel now has ...

There are terrible things going on in the world and specifically at the Kennedy Center, where the staff’s been decimated, attendance is way down, booked engagements have withdrawn, and others have been cancelled in a few weeks  to make way for activities related to the World Cup or maybe eventual...

Written by MacArthur “genius” fellow and award-winning screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Danilo Gambini, A Case for the Existence of God is vulnerable, funny, and intense. It builds like a wave on the horizon that slowly and steadily gathers power as it nears, landing with massive en...

Creative Cauldron is uplifting children’s theater and giving young actors opportunities to fly in their original, musical adaptation of Peter Pan and Wendy. However, the script could use some more fairy dust to adapt it for a modern rendition. ...

Specific events in the intimate world of Anatevka, Russia are presented in a manner that propels universal understanding of the relevant themes of family, forgiveness, acceptance, and tolerance in the highly immersive and interactive staging of the renowned classic Fiddler on the Roof, now at the Si...

'Lie Low' leans into the dark absurdity of life and the things that go wrong. Smyth’s script and the Solas Nua team show a thoughtful understanding of humanity in their work, and connect with audiences with that authenticity – and a few cheeky jokes....

Ibsen's classic; readapted and reimagined. See what our critic had to say....

The Last Five Years, directed by Aria Velz, succeeds thanks to a talented cast and dreamlike atmosphere....

Synetic Theater’s new adaptation, “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus,” is demanding and dark, a dystopian tale that merges the classic gothic novel with a timeless myth to make us question our current quest for progress....

What did our critic think of FURLOUGH'S PARADISE at Theater Alliance. “Furlough’s Paradise” runs through Nov. 23 at Theater Alliance, 340 Maple St SW....

Lizzie: The Musical, more a rock concert than a musical theatre piece, includes quantities of facts and plenty of unproven notions about Lizzie Borden, whose acquittal of the murder of her parents in 1892 up in Massachusetts has remained in the national consciousness ever since....

An engaging trip into the psyche of the father of American Horror....

What did our critic think of BODYTRAFFIC'S THIS REMINDS ME OF YOU at Eisenhower Theater?...

The Washington Ballet kicked off its 49th season with a well-rounded, vibrant showcase of its current talent and built anticipation for its upcoming half-century celebration. ...

We Americans should not be too proud to admit we owe the Brits for a few important things - Harry Potter, earl gray tea, a lot of great music, and, to a certain extent, the 19th Amendment.  ...

Adventure Theatre MTC continues it’s rise back to artistic greatness with the world premiere of Not Your Mother’s Goose!. Written by ATMTC’S former artistic director Michael J. Bobbitt and Sandra Eskin the show takes us on a non- Sondheimian journey to Gooseville for a romp with Mother Goose a...