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BWW Review: I AM ANNE HUTCHINSON/I AM HARVEY MILK Premieres at Strathmore

by Jennifer Perry — April 25, 2016

I am enormously thrilled that Strathmore took this one on.

BWW Review: City of Fairfax Theatre Company Fearlessly Takes on WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

by Barbara Johnson — April 25, 2016

Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? has long been considered an American masterpiece, with some of the best dialogue in the history of drama.

BWW Review: Artistic Forms Brilliantly Collide in Damian Woetzel's DEMO: PLACE at Kennedy Center

by Jennifer Perry — April 24, 2016

In all my years of watching (and sometimes reviewing) a variety of artistic presentations at the Kennedy Center, I can hardly think of any other event that so perfectly offers a nicely packaged look at what the performing art center is all about.

BWW Review: HUGO BALL: A Dada Puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!??

by Roger Catlin — April 24, 2016

It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada.

BWW Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at Olney Theatre Center - It's Like 'CSI' In Person

by Charles Shubow — April 18, 2016

Olney Theatre Center Associate Artistic Director Jason King Jones directs an enticing psychological thriller.

BWW Review: More Lovelier Than Ever, MY FAIR LADY Blossoms at Riverside

by Jeffrey Walker — April 18, 2016

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's near masterpiece of a musical MY FAIR LADY took Broadway by storm 60 years ago this year and has become a 20th century classic.

BWW Review: THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX is Explored at Signature Theatre

by Barbara Johnson — April 19, 2016

There are a variety of mysteries explored in Bathsheba Doran's new play THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX.

BWW Review: ALL THE WAY at Arena Stage - Compelling Historical Drama About President Lyndon Baines Johson

by Charles Shubow — April 11, 2016

Tony-winning drama by Robert Schenkkan about LBJ is brought to life.

BWW Review: JERSEY BOYS Hypnotizes and Mesmerizes at the National Theatre

by Benjamin Tomchik — April 11, 2016

Jersey Boys is back in DC with a production that is hypnotizing and memorizing audiences, causing them to the move and groove in their seats at the National Theatre.

BWW Review: Living life in THE NETHER

by Hannah Menchhoff — April 11, 2016

THE NETHER is currently at Woolly Mammoth.

BWW Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Sizzles at Round House

by Keith Tittermary — April 7, 2016

Brick, the fermenting favorite son in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof says that there are two ways out of life: death and liquor.

BWW Review: Intense and Compelling IN A WORD at The Hub Theatre

by Pamela Roberts — April 7, 2016

For a brief moment when the opening night performance of IN A WORD ended there was quiet.

BWW Review: Electric MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Thrills at the Warner Theatre

by Vanessa Michaud — April 6, 2016

With a pleasing balance of comedic and serious moments, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at the Warner Theatre transported audiences to that historical day in 1954 where rock n' roll legends Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley got together for a spontaneous jam session, marking a piv

BWW Review: UrbanArias' Pleasing AFTER LIFE / JOSEPHINE

by Roger Catlin — April 6, 2016

What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers?

BWW Review: PROOF Enlightens at 1st Stage in Tysons

by Keith Tittermary — April 5, 2016

David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof is about as well constructed a play as ever written.

BWW Review: Stage Guild's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS, AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD

by Roger Catlin — April 4, 2016

One of the funnier political bits of the season was one Bill Maher did last fall on 'The King Trump Bible,' reinterpreting the text using the pithy phrases of crude frontrunner.

BWW Review: SUPERMAN 2050 Soars at the Kennedy Center

by Hannah Wing — April 4, 2016

Superman 2050 is a high-flying must see for children and adults alike.

BWW Review: Broadway Divas and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Bring Girl Power to the Strathmore

by Vanessa Michaud — April 4, 2016

Talented vocalists Christina Bianco, N'Kenge, Kristen Plumley, and Mandy Gonzalez, in conjunction with Jack Everly and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, headlined the concert of classic songs from the Great White Way to honor some of the most beloved Broadway divas and musicals of our time at the Mu

BWW Review: AFTER THE WAR Premieres at Mosaic Theater Company

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