Reviews

America in 1970 seemed like the worst of times. Halfway around the world, the problems of a country only slightly larger than the state...

The first time I directed sketch comedy material was during my New Playwrights’ Theatre days on Church Street, and Yeardley Smith was in the...

Start with the Academy Award-winning Disney animated feature film which included a delightful score by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, sprinkle in five new...

I was honored to be in the audience last night to catch this last production under the stewardship of Artistic Director Blake Robison. What...

A Little Night Music, the 1973 Tony Award Best Musical winner, features one of Stephen Sondheim’s loveliest scores, filled with grand waltzes, witty barbs...

What do three hookers of various age and experience, a cantankerous old man, a sweet southern story teller, a disturbed young lesbian and her...

Paul Gonsalves on the Road will be performed at the Capital Fringe Festival from July 21st through the 29th. As any jazz listener or...

Armageddon has arrived. The power has died. The grid is down. No more television, no more radio, no more internet. No electricity. And the...

A Typographer, a Geographer, and a Stenographer; perhaps the beginning of a new ‘guy walks into a bar’ style joke but in this case...

There's a fantastic cart-dragging, cow-milking, heartwarming Tevye at The Bowie Playhouse in 2nd Star Production's production of Fiddler on the Roof. Local favorite Fred Nelson...

Power + Corruption = Success   Looking for a theater production to kick off your countdown to Election Day? Search no further than Dominion Stage's thoroughly...

The thunderous sound of the river as it rises to greet the sun, the moon, and all that is in-between, embodied by dances and...

Fifty years into a magnificent career that has garnered nine Tony Awards and a National Medal of Arts, the one and only Tommy Tune...

Encore Stage and Studio present’s Charlotte’s Web, a beloved children’s tale about bravery and friendship presented for kids, by kids, as the cast and...

DADA Returns (20th Anniversary Edition) is a piece well worth revisiting. In its crazy maze of poetry and comedy, this gem from 1924 is a...

About a third of the way into No Rules Theatre Company’s Suicide, Incorporated, there is a showdown over office supplies at the eponymous organization....

Last night,  I witnessed one of the first area Community Theatre productions of the Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal....

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A great joy of seeing a production at Act Two is the feeling of “discovering” a talented young performer who you just know will...

A stunning performance of heartfelt emotions and war-torn reality comes to Crystal City in Synetic Theater’s new mesmerizing production of Home of the Soldier....