Review: Dance Place’s 35th Year Reunion
Dance Place Reunion Celebrates 35 Years
When Dance Place marks a milestone, invariably by the evening’s end its Founding Artistic Director Carla Perlo has more...
Review: ‘St. Nicholas’ at Washington Stage Guild
Theater critics can sometimes be vicious and bloodthirsty...... and that's before one of them gets employed by a bloodsucking vampire in the Washington Stage...
Review: ‘Three Sisters’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company
Chekhov is a challenge for even the most experienced and skilled artists of our profession. It is not merely that his characters are the...
Review: ‘Leave it to Psmith!’ at Lumina Studio Theatre
Clomping into the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, shivering from Snowzilla’s persistent chill and shaking caked snow and ice from our boots, we are...
Magic Time! ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Ford’s Theatre
What’s the best way to stage a modern classic that is both reverential and revelatory? How does one mount a production that is respectful...
Review: ‘Zombie Prom’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
A Thriller!
Grab your hoverboard and blast over to Greenbelt Arts Center to see its latest show, Zombie Prom. It’s totally nuclear, a tongue in...
Review: ‘Deathtrap’ at The Arlington Players
I could tell you about the play’s plot, but then you would have to kill me.
Yes, you read that right and it’s the premise...
Review: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ at Hippodrome Theatre at The...
The Phantom of the Opera is an entertainment phenomenon. Can we all just agree about that and move on?
It’s still going strong after 30...
Review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Ford’s Theatre
Possibly the most lyrical and sentimentally poignant of all the plays written by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie still holds up as one of...
‘Henry IV,” Part 1 at the Britches and Hose Theatre Company
The Britches and Hose Shakespeare Company is just the sort of grass roots, do-it-yourself theatrical troupe one might have hoped the nation would be...
Review: ‘Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home Tour’ at Strathmore
To paraphrase an old expression, “big talent can come in small packages!” This observation was never truer than when the diminutive musical superstar, Kristin...
Review: ‘#therevolution’ at InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia
In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron told us that the revolution will not be televised. Now, in 2016, Playwright Kristoffer Diaz tells us that the revolution...
Review: ‘The Language Archive’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA
“I love you.” This simple, universal concept becomes one of the most multi-faceted phrases in all languages in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s recent production of...
Review: ‘South Pacific’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
The South Pacific of your dreams was just sighted at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia. Never mind the current debate over “New York values”...
Review: ‘I Shall Not Hate’ at Mosaic Theater Company of DC
It was a record-setting blizzard, not prescient season planning, that resulted in Mosaic Theater Company’s rescheduling the opening of I Shall Not Hate to last...
Review: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at The Kennedy Center
Alexei Ratmansky’s newest staging of the great classical ballet The Sleeping Beauty feels like that moment in the classic MGM film The Wizard of...
Review: ‘Harvey’ at Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia
So what if he’s invisible? He’s still the best friend and constant companion of the lovably eccentric tippler Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, a...
Review: ‘Under the Skin’ at Everyman Theatre
At first blush, a play about organ donation might not have you rushing to the box office. But Playwright Michael Hollinger’s Under the Skin,...
Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair’ at Manhattan Theatre Club at The...
Richard Greenberg's new play is of the school from which the story "The Lady or the Tiger?" sprang. It has enigmatic hints of Harold...
Review: ‘SWEAT’ at Arena Stage
Permit me this before my actual review of Lynn Nottage's bold, brave play SWEAT which is receiving a splendidly searing, raw, and real production...