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BWW Review: DIGGING UP DESSA at Kennedy Center

by Elliot Lanes — February 8, 2018

Sometimes playwrights have a good idea for a script, but can't leave well enough alone.

BWW Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The Kennedy Center

by Hannah Land — February 8, 2018

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater began its weeklong stay in D.

BWW Review: Flying V Theatre's Revue of songs by JONATHAN COULTON a Sheer Delight

by Andrew White — February 6, 2018

Flying V's 'Jonathan Coulton' delivers a rich evening of songs delivered with passion and more than a touch of wry-to-broad humor.

BWW Review: Clever LA FOTO: A SELFIE AFFAIR at GALA Hispanic Theatre

by Roger Catlin — February 5, 2018

While every theatrical performance these days is prefaced by a request to turn off cell phones (which somebody invariably ignores), few plays have really delved into how the devices have so rapidly changed everyday life.

BWW Review: American Ballet Theatre's Eye-popping WHIPPED CREAM at Kennedy Center

by Roger Catlin — February 3, 2018

It must be galling for many ballet companies that their very operation is dependent on extended holiday performances of 'The Nutcracker' year after year.

BWW Review: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: RATMANSKY, ROBBINS, MILLEPIED & WHEELDON at the Kennedy Center

by Hannah Land — February 1, 2018

The American Ballet Theatre's current program at the Kennedy Center, featuring works by Ratmansky, Robbins, Millepied, and Wheeldon (as well as the full-length Whipped Cream, not covered in this review), is extremely well done but a little uninspiring.

BWW Review: Teen Playwright's THE DOG MUST DIE at Highwood Theatre

by Roger Catlin — January 29, 2018

During the first Women's Voices Theatre Festival in 2015, the youngest playwright was Madison Middleton, then a sophomore in Silver Spring.

BWW Review: SOVEREIGNTY Reigns at Arena Stage - Cherokee Nation History Takes Center Stage in Compelling New Play

by Jeffrey Walker — January 28, 2018

A compelling blend of obscure history and a story seemingly ripped from the headlines, SOVEREIGNTY is a fitting entry in this year's Women's Voices in the Theatre Festival.

BWW Review: 4,380 NIGHTS is a Vital Story, but Lacks Cohesion at Signature Theatre

by Hannah Wing — January 28, 2018

4,380 Nights is essentially two different plays, which makes it often hard to follow due to the lack of cohesion, but there are still glimpses of a play in which the message of hope rings quietly over fear and hate.

BWW Review: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER ... WALKIN' TALKIN' BILL HAWKINS at Atlas

by Roger Catlin — January 27, 2018

BWW Review: UNNECESSARY FARCE is a Riot at The Keegan Theatre

by Evann Normandin — January 29, 2018

Keegan Theatre's UNNECESSARY FARCE is the comedy we all need in these troubling times.

BWW Review: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE: JEROME KERN Delights Audiences at Atlas Performing Arts Center

by Isabella Basco — January 27, 2018

The Great American Songbook consists of the country's greatest popular songs and jazz standards - a staple of Americans' musical history.

BWW Review: Ford's Theatre's JEFFERSON'S GARDEN Offers a Cursory Glance at an American Conundrum

by Benjamin Tomchik — January 26, 2018

As a nation, we owe it to ourselves to ponder how men who advocated for liberty could also advocate for slavery.

BWW Review: Shakespeare Theatre's Sleek and Modern HAMLET

by Benjamin Tomchik — January 25, 2018

Led by the sensational Michael Urie, Director Michael Kahn has given us a Hamlet for our times.

BWW Review: Kafka's Dark, Dystopian Classic THE TRIAL Dazzles at Synetic Theater

by Jeffrey Walker — January 24, 2018

Synetic's latest work is taken from Kafka's novel THE TRIAL with elements borrowed from his other works, presented in the kinetic and bold theatrical style the 22-year old company has earned their renown.

BWW Review: MAMMA MIA Proves A Super Trouper in Regional Premiere at Riverside Center

by Jeffrey Walker — January 24, 2018

The view looks pretty good from a pair of platform shoes.

BWW Review: AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: THREE 20-MINUTE OPERAS at The Kennedy Center

by Molly Korroch — January 23, 2018

Composers and librettists were the stars Saturday night at The Kennedy Center's triple world premiere.

BWW Review: Washington Stage Guild sequel SEE ROCK CITY

by Roger Catlin — January 23, 2018

Washington Stage Guild had a hit last year with the 1940s Americana romance 'Last Train to Nibroc,' so it's natural to want to stage the sequel by Arlene Hutton featuring the same pair of actors as the appealing couple, Lexi Langs and Wood Van Meter.

BWW Review: THE WOLVES at Studio Theatre

by Jenny Minich — January 22, 2018

The Wolves boasts an all-female cast and the lack of any male in a play set in the male-dominated world of sports is innovative.

BWW Review: Pointless Theatre's IMOGEN Creatively Spotlights a Female Star of Shakespeare

by Barbara Johnson — January 21, 2018

Shakespeare's CYMBELINE may be named for the play's king, but his daughter Imogen is the real star of the tale, the center of the action.

BWW Review: EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED at Theatre J

by Keith Tittermary — January 17, 2018

Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 semi-autobiographical debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, is a riveting portrayal of one man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis at the start of World War II.

BWW Review: 45 PLAYS teaches us about 45 PRESIDENTS

by Keith Tittermary — January 16, 2018

In the course of American history there have been 44 men to become President of the United States.

BWW Review: Skillful and Fun THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Constellation Theatre Company

by Pamela Roberts — January 16, 2018

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Constellation Theatre is a thought-provoking, skillfully-rendered reminder that chaos and uncertainty are not unique to our time or to any single time.

BWW Review: THE WAY OF THE WORLD at Folger Theatre is Biting Satire for the Reality TV Age

by Barbara Johnson — January 15, 2018

The DC premiere of Theresa Rebeck's satire THE WAY OF THE WORLD is adapted from a Restoration-era classic by William Congreve, but it couldn't be more contemporary and on trend.

BWW Review: THE HUMANS at The Kennedy Center

by Jenny Minich — January 13, 2018

In the wake of a marathon holiday season, there is a helluvah lot to love about Stephen Karam's Tony Award-Winning The Humans.

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