Review: ‘Midwestern Gothic’ at Signature Theatre
A native Midwesterner myself, I was eager to see Midwestern Gothic, Signature Theatre’s new show that is being touted as Misery meets Fargo, a...
Review: ‘Pike St.’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Even as fear and animus split the human race asunder, great authors have reminded us for millennia that we really are all one. From...
Review: ‘King Lear’ at George Washington University
Director Leslie Jacobson has book-ended Shakespeare’s dark tragedy King Lear with lyrical and lovingly-lit tableaux of the mad king’s court as if in a...
Review: ‘Battlefield’ at The Kennedy Center
In The Empty Space Peter Brook declared that the stage has “two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.”
In Battlefield, his...
Review: Hamburg Ballet: John Neumeier’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
In this production, John Neumeier adapts the classic 1837 tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid. The production, not only explores the story...
Post-Play Palaver: ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘No Sisters’ at Studio Theatre
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheaterArts writers who saw the same production—in this case the same two productions, Chekhov’s Three...
Review: ‘NSO Pops: Sophisticated Ladies: 100 Years of Ella & Company’ at The Kennedy...
Acclaimed vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith and Montego Glover joyously hopped the A train to Harlem along with the NSO Pops in tribute to...
Review: ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at The Catholic University of America
Who would have thought that an evening of love, ambition, betrayal, violence, and death could be so enjoyable? That is precisely what last night’s...
Review: ‘Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali?’ in Collaboration...
Sometimes a story is so unique it needs no explanation.
Sometimes a story dares you to disbelieve.
Sometimes a story...
Where Can I Find Someone Like You,...
Review: ‘Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo’ at The Kennedy Center
Men in tights and pointe shoes ballet super seriously and have fun doing it. The all-male comic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte...
In The Moment: ‘The Sound is the Kicker’ in Scena’s ‘The...
Another superior night with Irish playwright Conor McPherson, this time at Scena Theatre under Robert McNamara’s illuminating, layered direction of McPherson’s earthy, sideward glance...
Review: ‘Antigonón, un contingente épico’ at The Kennedy Center
As the audience gathers in the Eisenhower, antique footage rolls on the screen: people gathering, moving, marching. José Martí, Cuban national hero, poet, and...
Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ at Prince William...
It’s probably helpful to be well versed in Chekhov and Greek tragedies to understand many of the in-jokes and allusions in Christopher Durang’s 2012...
Review: ‘The Night Alive’ at Scena Theatre
Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive is a story of lost souls seeking redemption, of searching for a light in the darkness. Presented...
Review: ‘Donizetti’s Don Pasquale’ at The In Series: Opera & More
Happiness is a theatrical adaptation that successfully reinvents the original. The In Series' production of Gabriel Donizetti's 1843 comic opera Don Pasquale, now playing...
Review: ‘Three Sisters’ at The Studio Theatre
As improbable as it may sound, the plays of Anton Chekhov are vivid proof that there is such a thing as joyful melancholy. You...
Review: ‘Mnemonic’ at Theater Alliance
Just now when the world is wracked with wave upon wave of ethnic animus—just now when our country has succumbed to xenophobia not seen...
Review: ‘No Sisters’ at The Studio Theatre
A shout-out to Studio Theatre co-founder Russell Metheny, who designed the complex on 14th Street, for installing a backstage stairway connecting the dressing rooms...
Review: ‘What Every Girl Should Know’ and ‘Dry Land’ in Rep...
One hundred years separate the young women in What Every Girl Should Know and Dry Land, now playing in rep at Forum Theatre.
In Monica Byrne's What Every Girl...
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...