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Review: KIM’S CONVENIENCE at Olney Theatre Center
While the show currently isn’t on Netflix anymore, the beloved Kim family’s story lives on in productions like Olney Theatre’s Kim's Convenience, directed by Aria Velz....
Review: THE LIGHTNING THIEF at Adventure Theatre
Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief was published in 2005 and exploded in popularity, sparking a massive franchise and countless other books, and creating a shift in middle grade culture toward ancient mythologies and pantheons much to the delight of many a social studies teacher....
Review: A WRINKLE IN TIME at Arena Stage
While the musical adaptation of 'A Wrinkle in Time' has its flaws, there’s a lot of promise in this initial staging, and the show has the potential to live a long life, bringing this beloved story to new and devoted audiences alike....
Review: BROADWAY IN THE PARK by Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap
With a dreamy blend of nature and showtunes, Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap delivered a sparkling evening of performances at their fifth annual Broadway in the Park concert....
Review: DORY FANTASMAGORY at Imagination Stage
If you have a kid in elementary school, the wildly popular Dory Fantasmagory book series is likely on your radar. What you may not be aware of is there is a stage show based on the books. Recently, my son and I caught Dory Fantasmagory making its East Coast premiere. It was silly, funny, and, maybe ...
Review: WIPEOUT at Studio Theatre
The final play of the season at Studio Theatre comes with some environmental warnings. The production includes “nontoxing vaping, loud music, and controlled water spray, some of which might hit the audience.”...
Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at National Theatre
The tale sometimes tilts toward melodrama but is deeply moving all the same. The brisk, shimmering touring production honors its iconic and abundant Motown source material....
Review: DISNEY'S ALADDIN DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION at Creative Cauldron
What did our critic think of DISNEY'S ALADDIN DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION at Creative Cauldron? With a rub of a lamp, the Falls Church community theater turned into the singing and shining city of Agrabah, rounded out with a Spanish- and English-speaking cast. ...
Review: LES MISERABLES AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
The National Tour production team has crafted a fine Les Miz 2.0, with inventive musical staging. It is a show of constant snapshots and they created a visual mosaic....
Review: THE PIANO LESSON at 1st Stage
August Wilson is one of America’s greatest playwrights, and The Piano Lesson may be one of his greatest works. The writing is so powerful, I’m not sure you could stage a bad version if you tried. ...
Review: THE UNTITLED UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL at Signature Theatre
What can one say about Hunter S. Thompson, the infamous “Gonzo” journalist who wrote about the Hell’s Angels, The Kentucky Derby, who wrote prolifically in Rolling Stone Magazine and who plunged into Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (with drug -fueled adrenalin) and who embraced political passio...
Review: THE BERLIN DIARIES at Theater J
Andrea Stolowitz's 90-minute autobiographical play, The Berlin Diaries, challenges her two actors, and Dina Thomas and Lawrence Redmond meet the heck out of all the challenges; they play multiple roles readily and skillfully....
Review: BLACK SABBATH - THE BALLET at Kennedy Center
This is BRB’s Kennedy Center premiere and a testament to both BRB’s Director Carlos Acosta CBE and the Center for supporting risky endeavors like this that seek to stretch the boundaries of what ballet is and should be. ...
Review: KING JAMES at Round House Theatre
The play King James –now at the Round House Theatre ---is like a pleasurable afternoon shooting hoops with a friend in the summer. This character-driven play by Rajiv Joseph (who gave us the play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo---which was presented at Round House in 2012) is entertaining and refr...
Review: FRANKENSTEIN at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Emily Burns' adaptation of 'Frankenstein,' brings a new perspective, and perfectly captures the Gothic atmosphere, the struggle between creation and responsibility, and what family means – all the elements that keep bringing us back to this story....
Review: ANDY WARHOL IN IRAN at Mosaic Theater
Andy Warhol really did go to Iran. In 1976, the Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, arranged to sit for Polaroid photos which Warhol would then use as a basecoat for a series of prints, and Andrew Cohen reproduces Warhol's image of her as a permanently present part of his set design. Warhol also could reall...
Review: CIRCUS OF THE SELF at Spooky Action Theater
It’s hard to miss Lucy Eden when she bursts onto the intimate playing space at Spooky Action’s basement theatre for its production of CIRCUS OF THE SELF. ...
Review: CHICAGO at Capital One Hall
Here at Capital One Hall, CHICAGO is painting the town. A spectacle to behold, the performance lights up Tysons in a hazy allure of Fosse high kicks and slow-rolling hips....
Review: New York Circus Project's LIQUID is an Early Summer Highlight !!
“Liquid” is 60 minutes of nonstop punk, erotic, aerial fun—with whips and chains thrown in for good measure. The soundtrack accompanying the acts runs through a blistering mix of hit songs from Velvet Underground to My Chemical Romance, and beyond. The variety and artistry on display are tru...
Review: PORGY AND BESS at Kennedy Center
The pivotal and star-crossed main characters and the Catfish Row community come alive in the highly influential, thought-provoking, and engrossing opera Porgy and Bess. This much discussed opera has its partisans and detractors but there is a distinct need to ponder and consider a work of this quali...
Review: WE ARE GATHERED at Arena Stage
Live theater is one of the oldest and best art forms for exploring inner conflict. When it follows in this tradition, Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s newest work, We Are Gathered, is interesting and effective. ...
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at National Theatre
DC theatre audiences are blessed because besides there being a huge wealth of local theatres, there are also places like the historic National Theatre that bring us national tours direct from Broadway. It’s current attraction is one of the best tours I’ve seen in a very long time....
Review: FOOTLOOSE at NextStop Theatre Company
NextStop’s production of 'Footloose' felt haphazard and emotionless, and what should have been a fun evening of theater and nostalgia was instead entirely lackluster....
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT at Folger Shakespeare Theater
When it came to gender fluid plays, William Shakespeare was way ahead of the curve even 400 years ago. At the time, young males routinely played the female roles anyway. He had already made cross-dressing hidden identity a part of “The Merchant of Venice” and would do so again in “As You Lik...
Review: AKIRA KUROSAWA EXPLAINS HIS MOVIES AND YOGURT (WITH LIVE AND ACTIVE CULTURES!) at Woolly Mammoth
Late in Julia Izumi's play, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!), one of the characters asks, 'Is that what the whole yogurt thing is about because I'm not getting it?' It's one of several goofball/meta moments in this very theatrical play and marks the spot...
Videos
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
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OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
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A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Sister Act" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (6/27-7/12) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |
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The Outsiders Kennedy Center Opera House (8/01-8/01) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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The Roaring Girl Spooky Action Theater (6/05-6/27) |
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