The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Washington, DC.
Elliot Lanes
Abby Korb
Aidan O'Connor
Andrew White
Audrey Cahak
Brian Bochicchio
David Friscic
Doug Poms
Jackson Malmgren
Jake Bridges
Laurie Sara Oliver
Lora Strum
Mary Lincer
Pamela Roberts
Rachael F. Goldberg
Roger Catlin
In an evening featuring classic musical favorites and unexpected gems, longtime DC performer Dani Stoller presents 'Awkward: A Musical Ode to the Funny Best Friend' as part of Creative Cauldron's 2016 Summer Cabaret Series.
Cirque du Soleil has arrived in Tysons Corner with KURIOS - CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, a breathtaking, exquisitely detailed adventure into a dystopian dreamworld and all of the wonders within it.
Monumental Theatre Company's new production of URINETOWN proves a very timely look into politics, corporate control and crowd dynamics; however, some central problems cause the show and its company to struggle in their space.
Originally earning 11 Helen Hayes nominations and audience acclaim in 2014, Synetic Theater's silent 1920s-style take on TWELFTH NIGHT is re-staged this season - which is not a moment too soon.
New York's UCB Theatre, which grew out of a small group of comics you know in the Upright Citizens Brigade, now contains hundreds of performers you don't know putting on scores of different comedies, sketch shows, online shows and all manner of improv shows at what are now a handful of stages.
The Jonathan Larson musical should not be missed.
The long ride up the elevator to Studio Theater's Stage 4 is certainly rewarded in the regional premiere of Robert Askins' Broadway hit Hand to God.
Whether you share BeBe's upbringing and/or personal faith or not, it's impossible not to enjoy the music and talented vocalists in this show, which is reason enough to give it a chance.
The problem with Donald Freed and Arnold M.
For those who think they can easily spot a liar (especially in this city), PERFECT LIARS CLUB returns to Capital Fringe Festival and offers an opportunity to pick one out of a lineup.
As I scoured the Capital Fringe listings for 2016, two shows caught my interest.
Capital Fringe Festival's PLAY CUPID is a crowdsourced dating app in which we, the audience, decide who gets paired up as we watch the action unfold.
A Fringe must see!
We all have our inner geeks, so why not indulge them by taking in this delightful show at Capital Fringe.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's flashy musical gets a different take.
Jason Robert Brown proves once again to be one of Broadway's brightest and best composers.
Piecing together a new mythology is an audacious undertaking, and yet it is an act that is at the very heart of theatre-making: the building of a new world, with its own origins and order, that only becomes fully realised when an audience believes in it.
Happenstance Theatre has come up with a perfect evening's entertainment: 'Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville' gives your rambunctious youngster a few moments of gleeful anarchy, your friends a little of the old soft shoe, while mom & dad can 'ooh' and 'aah' over Sabrina Mandell's stunning period costu
Summer means camp, and so it is at Theater J, which has been decked out in pine board, nature paintings and signs made of sticks for its closing production of the season, Another Way Home by Anna Ziegler.
'Wow! This is amazing!'
Imagination Stage's world premiere production of 'The Little Mermaid', directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer, adapts Andersen's story into a musical interpretation filled with original songs and choreography.
With more than 130 different productions being staged over three weeks at 20 different venues, the Capital Fringe festival can be an overwhelming undertaking.
Love it or hate it, the whodunit farce Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center represented D.
Longtime fans are sure to be thrilled to hear their favorites and first timers are sure to be swept up in the river sensation of “Riverdance.
It turns out that there's a reason that WSC Avant Bard's production of The Good Devil (In Spite of Himself starts 15 minutes late.
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical Arena Stage (6/12-8/09) |
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Macbeth - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/16-7/25) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Twelfth Night - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/15-7/25) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |
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DC COMEDY FESTIVAL 2026 Washington (9/09-9/12) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) National Theatre (12/15-2/07) |
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WHEN I WAS District Fringe (7/10-7/26) PHOTOS |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (9/26-9/26) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
