The Imposter Unmasked
A musical masquerade set in 17th-century England featuring songs of longing, satire, devotion, and melancholy by Dowland, Campion, Purcell, and early Handel. Stage direction is...
A musical masquerade set in 17th-century England featuring songs of longing, satire, devotion, and melancholy by Dowland, Campion, Purcell, and early Handel. Stage direction is...
Lisa D’Amour offers us a fascinating character study in her latest play, The Smoker, and under the empathetic eye of Director Shelley Butler we are invited into the lives of normal people we routinely pass by without a thought. As if by accident we meet our central character, a recovering alcoholi…
The one-word title of this play isn't just a form of direct address; in Argentina, it's a form of 'You!' that turns its gaze away from the stage and back on all of us in the audience. Playwright Christina Pumariega is determined that we never forget the Disappeared of Argentina, and recognize the em…
Playwright Yussef El Guindi has given us a window into many issues at once—too many at once to keep track of, from this critic’s perspective. But the issues collide here in the Contemporary American Theater Festival’s Studio 112 with memorable force.…
For her final production as Artistic Director of Washington, D.C.-based Chamber Dance Project (CDP), Diane Coburn Bruning chose to pair a few of her signature contemporary ballets with others from CDP’s rich repertory, along with a world premiere ballet by up-and-coming choreographer William Moore…
If nothing else in this world, we all have one thing in common – everyone is born, and everyone will die. Regardless of the country or culture shaping us, every human encounters the daunting ambiguity and the rigid finality of the end of this life sentence equally. Contrastly, our experience with …
Teenage years are no picnic for anyone. That we survive it at all makes us wish we all had the knowledge then what we know now. Such is the premise of MaKayla Baker Paxton’s play “When I Was” that’s playing as part of the District Fringe.…
What did our critic think of PLEASE CLAP! at District Fringe?…
Theresa Cunningham chronicles her life story through poetry, prose, song, and dance. See what our critic had to say.…
WHO DID IT? AN IMPROVISED MURDER MYSTERY is a hilarious improv comedy show in which the audience plays a key role in setting up the murder scene, making each performance different and new. Performances continue through July 25 as part of District Fringe.…
The current touring production of Beetlejuice, now playing at the National Theatre, is an odd theatrical piece –in that it is really more of an ostensible cult musical event for the generations in their twenties, thirties, and early forties. This in itself is perfectly fine, but I must admit that …
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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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Mamma Mia! National Theatre (10/27-11/15) |
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Josh Groban Wolf Trap (8/22-8/22) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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Come From Away Ford's Theatre (9/10-10/18) |
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Philadelphia Ballet Stars and Stripes Forever! Wolf Trap (9/10-9/10) |
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Somewhere over the Border Mosaic Theater Company (9/10-10/04) |