In the Moment: ‘Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush’ at...
Brimming with heart, musical numbers to elicit smiles, a unique wit, some audience sing-alongs, and moments that disrupt theatrical norms, MetroStage’s Christmas at the...
Review: ‘The SantaLand Diaries’ at Drafthouse Comedy Theater in DC
If you are barely in the mood to do something Christmassy, if Tiny Tim gives you hives, and learning lessons is anathema, The SantaLand Diaries...
Review: ‘Citizens’ Watch’ at Washington Improv Theater
One of the best things about improv is that no two shows are alike. And Citizens’ Watch, the improvisational mystery now unfolding at Washington Improv Theater, is no exception.
Review: ‘This Is the Week That Is’ at 1812 Productions
If you’re looking for an evening of escapist entertainment at the theater this holiday season, 1812 Productions’ twelfth installment of its perennial hit This...
Review: ‘A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological Order’...
Daniel Kitson is an acquired taste. In the premiere of his newest one-actor creation, A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological Order...
Review: ‘An Act of God’ at Signature Theatre
I was healed. Aches and pains of the day disappeared. Headaches from paying too close attention to Presidential tweets vanished. I might have been...
2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Labor of Love’ by The WaitStaff...
Philadelphia sketch-comedy icon, and longest-running annual act in the history of the Fringe, The WaitStaff marks its seventeenth year of participation with an all-new...
Review: The Kinsey Sicks in ‘Things You Shouldn’t Say’ at Theater...
There’s virtually nothing a drag queen won’t say, or do, in public or private, say the Kinsey Sicks. The San Francisco-based beauty shop quartet...
Review: The Second City’s ‘Divided We Stand’ at The Kennedy Center
They’re back! Second City--the group that made Chicago the capital of comedy and that all but invented improv--has returned to DC, where it is...
Review: Source Festival 2017: ‘Perfect Arrangement’
Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne was a smash hit at Source Festival when it debuted there four years ago, and the comedy's return to...
Magic Time!: ‘Smart People’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center...
Racism, presumed in polite circles to be no laughing matter, gets a hilariously smart deconstruction in Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People. Arena Stage has...
Magic Time!: ‘Or,’ at Round House Theatre
As play titles go, Or, is one of the most ungoogleable. It is a search engine dead end. And as an original mashup of...
Review: ‘My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy’ at Bucks County...
Nearly everyone in the arts has taken another job such as waiter, receptionist, or office temp just to pay the rent. Brad Zimmerman has...
Interview: A Q & A with Arts Collective@HCC’s ‘IMPROVAGANZA’ Participants: Part...
Howard Community College's Arts Collective's What Improv Group?! is presenting Improvaganza, HCC’s (and Howard County’s, too) FIRST Improv Festival with Master Classes, on March...
IMPROVAGANZA: Improv Festival and Improv Master Classes at Arts Collective @HCC
Howard Community College's Arts Collective's What Improv Group?! presents...
IMPROVAGANZA! A Three-Night Improv Festival
Mar 30, 31 & Apr 1, 2017, at 8pm in HCC's Studio...
Review: Jay Leno at The Kennedy Center
Iconic television host, celebrated comedian and 2014 Mark Twain recipient Jay Leno returned to the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall Friday night amped to get...
Repairing and Healing the World Through Theater: An Interview With the...
Near the end of each year, Philadelphia’s only surreal theater, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC) —with their deeply philosophical mission statement, “We Bring Good...
Review: ‘Bo Dacious and Liz Russo’ at AMP Powered by Strathmore
There’s this hot little night club right across from some swanky automobile dealerships in a neighborhood calling itself Pike & Rose. The venue hosts...
Kathleen Madigan: ‘Bothering Jesus Tour’ Comes to the Weinberg Center for...
Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus Tour at the Weinberg Center for the Arts
With a refreshing take on life’s absurdities and a brand-new Netflix special (“Bothering Jesus”),...
Review: Second City’s ‘Twist Your Dickens’ at The Kennedy Center
If you’re looking for something to laugh at in this wintry political season, then you’d better move fast. That’s because tickets for Twist Your...