Our Washington, DC Critics
View All »
Elliot Lanes
Senior Editor
.jpg?format=auto&width=100)
Aidan O'Connor
Critic
Audrey Cahak
Critic
David Friscic
Critic
Doug Poms
Critic
Emily Berger
Critic
Jackson Malmgren
Critic
Jake Bridges
Critic
_(1).jpg?format=auto&width=100)
Laurie Sara Oliver
Critic
Lora Strum
Critic
Mary Lincer
Critic
Pamela Roberts
Critic
Rachael F. Goldberg
Critic
Roger Catlin
Critic
BWW Review: NSO LABOR DAY CONCERT FEATURING BEN FOLDS at Kennedy Center REACH
The pandemic has thrown traditional events like the National Symphony Orchestra's annual Labor Day concert for a loop for two years running. Held for years on the West Lawn of the Capitol, it had to be broadcast last year to an audience parked at RFK stadium, watching on screens and listening to the...
BWW Review: A WIND IN THE DOOR at the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center's Performances for Young Audiences season is back, and it kicked off with a world premiere adaptation of the young adult fantasy classic A Wind in the Door. The whirlwind performance brings the novel's unique blend of sci-fi and whimsical poetry to life....
BWW Review: An Act of God at NextStop Theatre Company
Is it time to hold God (inhabiting the body of Jacob Yeh) to account? God knows – forgive the reference – we have occasion to do so. Even as we hunker, masked, vaccinated and socially distant, within the confines of NextStop Theatre Company, we add more counts to our indictment – a terribl...
BWW Review: Spooky Action Theater's THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND
How could you not love a play about theater critics? Especially where, as in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, now available in virtual format through Spooky Action Theater’s website, the critics are pompous, abrasive and criminally uninformed. Moon (Robert Bowen Smith) and Birdboot (Stev...
BWW Review: MOON MAN WALK at Constellation Theatre is a Wonderful Re-entry to In-Person Theater
Constellation Theatre welcomes audiences back to in-person performances with MOON MAN WALK, a sweet, funny, tender meditation on love, connection, and the people in our lives we need to get by. MOON MAN WALK brings together a gifted cast, beautiful scenic elements, and deep and endearing storytellin...
BWW Review: SIDE-WALKS at Solas Nua
Written by Jeremy Keith Hunter, a DC-based multidisciplinary artist, and John King, a theatre-maker from Dublin, Side-Walks is a “visual short story about finding yourself after a year of isolation” and is the culmination of a pandemic-long collaboration between the two playwrights and Solas Nua...
BWW Review: Kensington Arts Theatre's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is Murderous Fun
It’s time to get out, people. I mean, let’s face it – you can only get by for so long on Disney+ or Netflix before you want a taste of living flesh—er, live theatre. With their production of 'And Then There were None,' Kensington Arts Theatre has got a great evening out – if you don’t ...
BWW Review: Quotidian Theatre Company's THE DAY EMILY MARRIED a Beautiful Swan Song
Bethesda's own Quotidian Theatre, which has been a true labor of love and art, after nearly 25 years on the D.C. theatre scene, is making an appropriately subtle, and grand, exit. Horton Foote's intensely psychological drama, The Day Emily Married, is a piece that Artistic Director Jack Sbarbori fam...
BWW Review: DETROIT '67 at Signature Theatre
Inspired in part by August Wilson's 10-play depiction of Pittsburgh life, Dominique Morisseau embarked on a similar ambition reflecting the Motor City in her 'Detroit Project.'...
BWW Review: NORM LEWIS AND THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Wolf Trap's Filene Center
A selection of Broadway standards by this accomplished singer and actor is a welcome summer treat....
BWW Review: CLOWNTIME at Dance Loft On 14
Dire statistical upticks remind us that we're not quite out of the Pandemic Era. Live theater is still largely virtual; tickets are being sold for the fall but with crossed fingers the performances will actually go on....
BWW Review: FAIRY TALES IN THE SUN at Adventure Theatre MTC
Adventure Theatre MTC presents their first in-person show of the season, Fairy Tales in the Sun, directed by Stan Kang. The production features two one-act plays, The Future in the Flood, written by Lyra Yang, and From Cinders to Ella, written by Michelle Lynch....
BWW Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Monumental Theatre Company
Monumental Theatre Company’s production of 'Songs for a New World' comes at a unique time in our society, and expertly capitalizes on this. With its strong cast and creative team, this adaptation rises to our moment and taps into our emotionality. It brings us the emotional connection and comfort ...
BWW Review: TENDER AGE at Studio Theatre
Studio Theatre wraps up their 2020-2021 virtual season with George Brant's Tender Age, directed by Henry Godinez....
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Constellation Theatre Company
Constellation Theatre Company’s production of 'The Last Five Years' is a fun and engaging performance, but the lopsided cast undermines its core charm. That said, fans of the show will still enjoy the production, and newcomers will still find the it engaging, if a bit unbalanced....
BWW Review: WHERE WE BELONG at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
It's becoming common for theaters to pause before each production and include, alongside the usual cell phone reminders, a land acknowledgement, recognizing indigenous people that came before....
BWW Review: WE'RE GONNA DIE at Round House Theatre
You can tell things are getting better in the world just by watching the Round House Theatre's latest production. It's the last of their filmed productions, for one thing. At its start, more people are seen coming into the theater to react to the performance - some 25 instead of the five or 10 in pa...
BWW Review: AFTER MIDNIGHT at Signature Theatre
After Midnight at Signature Theatre is a revue featuring the music of Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh, and DC’s own Duke Ellington, and is set around the poems of Langston Hughes. The show features some of DC’s finest talent including Nova Y. Payton (a Signature regular) and Hamilton ...
BWW Review: Will on the Hill and Far Away at Shakespeare Theatre Company
“What’s past is prologue” Prospero says in The Tempest, but when the present passes into the past what’s left is Will on the Hill and Far Away, the earnest and frequently successful effort by Congressmen to do Shakespeare funny. In this annual exercise, designed to raise funds for arts e...
BWW Review: IN THE MOMENT: A DRAWING DANCE at The Kennedy Center's Digital Stage
'In the MOment: A Drawing Dance' will inspire its intended audience of 4-and-ups with its delightfully sleek, bouncy, playful universe of human movement and green-screen geometric exploration....
BWW Review: A SURPRISE PROGRAM by the NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Kennedy Center
The biggest surprise about the surprise program at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction fo Gianandrea Noseda may have been that it was happening at all....
BWW Review: LUTHER'S TRUMPET at Mason Arts At Home And George Mason University's School Of Theater
'Luther's Trumpet' is a fair production with an interesting premise - some parts are more intriguing than others, so the overall impression leaves a little more to be desired. But those electric moments when Luther confronts his adversaries and his stirring speech at the show's close definitely elev...
BWW Review: FLOW at Studio Theatre
Flow, which saw its second production, in 2004, at Studio Theatre, is back!
Part of Studio Theatre’s first digital season and more specifically featuring a trio of eclectic solo performances, Flow might be called a mixed metaphor. It blends the old West African tradition of griot — an oral tr...
BWW Review: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELDS at Solas Nua
It doesn't get more site-specific than this, people: Solas Nua's doing a play called In the Middle of the Fields in the middle of a field! Starring as the field, P Street Beach; who knew she's been waiting for her close-up as a legit house all this time?...
BWW Review: ANIMAL WISDOM at WOOLLY MAMMOTH
While this production can be viewed only as a movie currently, I can't help but feel like we are missing something by not being gathered in the same room as Christian for this production....
Videos
|
Loot Gunston Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
|
The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
|
Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
|
Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
|
OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
|
A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
|
Ford''s Theatre presents: Come From Away Ford's Theatre (9/10-10/18) |
|
Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
|
Commedia Christmas Carol (2024) Streaming Traveling Players Ensemble (12/23-12/23) |
|
Somewhere over the Border Mosaic Theater Company (9/10-10/04) |
| VIEW ALL SHOWS ADD A SHOW | |
Get Washington, DC's #1 Theatre Newsletter
Get the best news & discounts for Washington, DC Shows & beyond.
