Washington, DC Theater Reviews Page 3

Review: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: SWAN LAKE at Kennedy Center
by Michela Dwyer - February 24, 2024

What did our critic think of AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: SWAN LAKE at Kennedy Center?...

Review: TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS at Arena Stage
by Itai Yasur - February 24, 2024

TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS, Arena Stage's latest Power Play premiere, champions the under-appreciated, local historical figure Anna J. Cooper: mother of Black feminism, brilliant educator, and embattled teacher/principal at DC's M Street High School....

Review: WHERE WE BELONG at Folger Theatre
by Rachael F. Goldberg - February 23, 2024

'Where We Belong' is a beautiful production, with a gorgeous script and an entrancing quality that can be attributed to the best of theatrical experiences. It shares some hard truths, some heart-wrenching moments and realizations, and challenges perspectives, but the love and care that shines throug...

Review: DESPERATE MEASURES at Constellation Theatre
by Jake Bridges - February 22, 2024

DESPERATE MEASURES, now playing at DC’s Constellation Theatre, takes Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE, adds a slew of songs, and reimagines the story in America’s Western territory of present-day Arizona in the late 1890s. ...

Review: CINDERELLA: A SALSA FAIRY TALE at Imagination Stage
by Tavish Young - February 19, 2024

Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale is loud, bouncy, and bilingual. The show is part of Imagination Stage's 'Greatest Hits' season, as it was originally commissioned and produced at Imagination in 2003. ...

Review: THE WASHINGTON BALLET: JAZZ ICONS - A FINE ROMANCE at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - February 19, 2024

The dance school choices for students, I recall, were ballet and jazz tap. Ne’er the twain shall meet, as Kipling said of the east and west. ...

Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD at Kennedy Center
by Ken Kemp - February 18, 2024

Classic Motown music and a riveting story make for a great evening of entertainment....

Review: THE CHER SHOW at Capital One Hall
by Mary Lincer - February 17, 2024

What did our critic think of THE CHER SHOW at Capital One Hall?...

Review: PRIVATE JONES at Signature Theatre
by David Friscic - February 16, 2024

The shattering of the world that took place during World War I propelled humanity into a fight for survival amidst the onslaught of enemy forces. The cacophony and horror of that war was fought in the trenches and on the open fields as portrayed in the poem “In Flanders Fields”, and in the many film...

Review: JUNIE B. JONES THE MUSICAL at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy
by Jennifer Muscato - February 13, 2024

Colorful, bright, and moving — some words I’d use to describe Junie B. Jones The Musical. The music grabs you right off the top and the energy carries through until the end. Never a dull moment....

Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Synetic Theater
by Jackson Malmgren - February 12, 2024

What did our critic think of ROMEO AND JULIET AT SYNETIC THEATER at Synetic Theater?...

Review: LEND ME A SOPRANO at Olney Theatre Center
by Peter Rouleau - February 12, 2024

Olney Theatre Center's Roberts Mainstage is presenting Ken Ludwig's 'Lend Me a Soprano' through March 10. This is a reimagining (by the author) of Ludwig's Tony-winning farce 'Lend Me a Tenor,' a staple of professional, community, and school theatres nationwide...which I've somehow never seen.  As t...

Review: THE SENSATIONAL SEA MINK-ETTES World Premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
by Morgan Musselman - February 12, 2024

With the big Homecoming performance around the corner, the Sea Mink-ettes must battle malfunctioning facilities, tiring bodies, rising tempers… and a supernatural shift in reality. Vivian J.O. Barnes’ THE SENSATIONAL SEA MINK-ETTES, premiering at Woolly Mammoth through March 3, is a wholly unique sh...

Review: ALVIN AILEY - PROGRAM B at Opera House at The Kennedy Center
by Emily Berger - February 11, 2024

Thursday’s Ailey performance of Program B featured Century, a new work by Amy Hall Garner, her first for the company, 2019’s Ode by former company member Jamar Roberts, and Mr. Ailey’s juggernaut Revelations. ...

Review: THE VICTORIAN LADIES' DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE at Washington Stage Guild
by Ken Kemp - February 09, 2024

There's murder and mayhem afoot at Washington Stage Guild (and a fair amount of mirth, too) in the area premier of Patricia Milton's The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective, a fun and lighthearted addition to the whodunnit genre with a decidedly feminist twist....

Review: THIS MUCH I KNOW at Theater J
by David Friscic - February 08, 2024

What an odd thing the human mind is! –for it can make false assumptions, construct facile rationalizations, and rely on preconceived notions---as the audience soon finds out through the alternately clever, character-driven, and coiling convolutions of Theater J’s east coast premiere of the play This...

Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Program A
by Emily Berger - February 08, 2024

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual run at The Kennedy Center is consistently a highlight of the winter season, and this year is no exception. This year the company brings three programs to D.C., all including Mr. Ailey’s 1960 classic Revelations, representing the best of recent revivals and...

Review: Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Keegan Theatre
by Mary Lincer - February 06, 2024

What did our critic think of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Keegan Theatre?...

Review: LAS HERMANAS PALACIOS (THE PALACIOS SISTERS) at GALA Hispanic Theatre
by Roger Catlin - February 06, 2024

The biggest drama at the GALA Hispanic Theatre this year didn’t happen on stage; it was the $250,000 that was stolen when its bank account was hacked and drained, threatening the long-serving Spanish-language performance space as its 50th anniversary approached....

Review: SHUTTER SISTERS at 1st STAGE
by Jake Bridges - February 05, 2024

What did our critic think of SHUTTER SISTERS at 1st STAGE?...

Review: THE GIRL WHO BECAME LEGEND at The Kennedy Center
by Jennifer Muscato - February 05, 2024

The musical The Girl Who Became Legend showcases the strength and bravery of a young girl, the power of big dreams and even addresses the topical issue of book banning....

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - February 01, 2024

The painful slow journey for understanding as to what normalcy or perceived sanity is --when a family member is suffering from bipolar illness--- is explored with heartbreaking poignancy, almost brutal honesty and with deadpan caustic humor in the musical Next to Normal. Now playing at Bethesda’s Ro...

Review: Audra McDonald in Concert with The National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center Concert Hall
by Mary Lincer - January 31, 2024

Audra McDonald has (at least) four voices--Broadway, jazz, opera, blues--not to mention six Tonys. She brought them all (the voices, not the awards) to her two hour concert with the National Symphony Pops which repeats Wednesday evening, January 31. ...

Review: TICK, TICK ...BOOM! at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts
by Pamela Roberts - January 31, 2024

Tick, tick …BOOM! is a raw and moving semi-autobiographical musical by Rent's Jonathan Larson. The Kennedy Center revisits the work with a spiffy new Broadway Center Stage production directed by Neil Patrick Harris and brings together three of Broadway’s most exciting and award-winning talents: Bran...

Review: MINDPLAY at Arena Stage
by Ken Kemp - January 27, 2024

This moving blend of engrossing theatre, vulnerable storytelling and masterful illusions is must see theatre....