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BWW Review: Washington Stage Guild's HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND a Perfect Pre-Summer Diversion
How He Lied to Her Husband is a charming, 40-minute diversion which will enliven any home, and should be at the top of your to-watch list for this weekend. Available only until Sunday night (per hyper-strict Equity guidelines), it features three of DC’s great talents and offers us a tantalizing ...
BWW Review: 2.5 MINUTE RIDE at Studio Theatre
Without a doubt, this production is one of the most successful adaptations to the virtual theatre space, going beyond just a filmed version of a live play and embracing this new medium in a truly moving way....
BWW Review: MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF aka MUMU FRESH at Kennedy Center
The penultimate program in the Kennedy Center's Young Audiences streamed season features the music of Baltimore-born and D.C. raised singer Maimouna Youssef.
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BWW Review: THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP at Round House Theatre
In the most trying of times, the Round House Theatre has managed to put together a pretty remarkable season, entirely online but leaning on one-person showcases that eliminated the need of distancing among cast members.
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BWW Review: LA TIA JULIA Y EL ESCRIBIDOR (AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER) at GALA Hispanic Theatre
In Mario Vargas Llosa's novel about his early days as a writer, his main character tries and tries again to get his work right. To present a live production of that tale, 'La Tía Julia y el escribidor (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter)' at the GALA Hispanic Theatre required the same patience and det...
BWW Review: dwb (driving while black) film at UrbanArias
The title and content of this filmed opera reminded me of a friend with a young biracial relative. Whenever he ventures out, whether by foot or car, his mother provides him with a letter explaining who he is and asserting that his purpose is benevolent in case the police may approach him....
BWW Review: FIRST DATE at NextStop Theatre Company
NextStop Theatre Company's 'First Date' has some chemistry, but the script can't figure out quite what genre it wants to be....
BWW Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET at Signature Theatre
Midnight at The Never Get begins as a cabaret act that transforms into a love story and concludes as a meditation on the way we grieve our past selves. The entire show takes place in a 1960s nightclub where things are not quite as they seem: the star of the act, singer Trevor Copeland (Sam Bolen, wh...
BWW Review: Shakespeare Theatre's BLINDNESS a Once-in-a-Lifetime Theatrical Experience
Director Meierjohann has choreographed Juliet Stevenson’s movements through a space as palpable as it is imaginary. The quality of the sound recording is so acute that you know exactly where she is at every moment. Stevenson’s performance is a marvel as she careens from the soothing, caring, d...
BWW Review: Simon Godwin's Production of ROMEO AND JULIET
The thing about Romeo and Juliet – but you know this, Grasshopper – is that it isn’t a love story – not at all, not even a little bit. It is rather a story of desperation, ego and self-regard. Juliet is a thirteen-year-old girl who has just been given the alarming news that she will be force...
BWW Review: 10 SECONDS at Imagination Stage
'10 Seconds' is the product of workshops and discussions between law enforcement, activists, and DC metro youth under the Imagination Stage Youth and Police program....
BWW Review: FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE streamed from MetroStage
MetroStage is starting to wind down its lockdown era with a second streamed work of Terrence McNally, the esteemed American playwright who himself died of COVID complications a year ago....
BWW Review: SUPER CELLO: HERO PRACTICE at The Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center’s latest digital stage contribution is a fantastic display of how art and education can go hand-in-hand....
BWW Review: UNTIL THE FLOOD at Studio Theatre
DC’s Studio Theatre is known as a leading contemporary theater, and the subject matter of its current production can scarcely be more so.
Inspired by the police killing of young Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., and based on dozens of interviews conducted in its aftermath across the city’...
BWW Review: HINDSIGHT IS at Roundhouse Theatre
Hindsight is explores exactly that, what we would have done differently, what we would have told our 2019 selves, and what we should celebrate about how we've pushed through the dumpster fire that was 2020....
BWW Review: CHILDREN OF MEDEA at Constellation Theatre Company
Constellation Theatre’s Children of Medea, written and performed by Sue Jin Song, and directed by Allison Arkell Stockman, transcends the usual humdrum of these stories into pure surreal art. ...
BWW Review: ARENA RIFFS: A MORE PERFECT UNION at Arena Stage
'A More Perfect Union' is very short, but its brilliance is that it takes viewers on a full, deep emotional roller coaster in that brief period of time. Rona Siddiqui was given free creative reign over this project, and enlisted artists she entrusted with the same autonomy. The result is nothing sho...
HERE I AM: A Virtual Live Performance Produced by The Lab and GU Theater & Performance Studies
HERE I AM, produced by The Lab and GU Theater & Performance Studies, is a generational story on how slavery and racism impacted Short-Colomb’s family, including her heavenly mothers....
BWW Review: NECESSARY SACRIFICES at Ford's Theatre
Ford's Theatre will forever be tied to the legacy of Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated there 156 years ago this week. So amid a lingering pandemic, the otherwise closed stage is offering a radio version of a work it commissioned nine years ago to coincide with the opening of the theater's Center ...
BWW Review: URINETOWN THE MUSICAL at The Landless Theatre Company
The Landless Theatre Company's sock puppet rendition of 'Urinetown' feels like a joke gone too far, with no clear audience in mind....
BWW Review: FALU: A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA at Kennedy Center
The third of the Kennedy Center’s six online Performances for Young Audiences this spring is a musical one — and one that can be enjoyed by a much wider age range....
BWW Review: Happenstance Theater's A ROSE FOR ERGENSBURG A Charming Escape
Step into Happenstance Theater’s dreamscape; enjoy the lush colors and charm of their short film, “A Rose for Ergensburg.” Devised by company founders Mark Jaster and Sabrina Selma Mandell, with Sharon Crissinger as its eagle-eyed cinematographer and co-author, you will encounter a world of th...
BWW Review: RICH KIDS: A HISTORY OF SHOPPING MALLS IN TEHRAN at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The British have a culture of creating plays that explore ideas rather than dramatize a series of events. Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem or Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll come immediately to mind - plays that wrestle with concepts (English identity and the diversities of passion) rather than the connect-...
BWW Review: 'Arena Riffs' Offers Psalmayene 24's Compelling THE FREEWHEELIN' INSURGENTS
Playright Psalmayene 24’s contribution to Arena Riffs is “The Freewheelin’ Insurgents,” a day in the life of four actors as they cope with the pandemic and the forces arrayed against them, both as artists and African-Americans....
BWW Review: Studio Theatre's COCK is a Raw, Raunchy Rant on Choice, Need and Identity
It's crass and callous, heart-breaking and hilarious as it examines the nomansland where choice and identity collide....
Videos
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Loot Gunston Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
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A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
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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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Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Wolf Trap (8/14-8/14) |
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Hook in Concert Wolf Trap (9/05-9/05) |
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Tarzan The Washington County Playhouse (6/26-8/16) |
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HYPER_OBJECT Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center Theater (6/04-6/04) |
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