Tag: DC Metro Theatre
Review: ‘The King and I’ at The Kennedy Center
Swapping one beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein’s national tour production for another, the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I made...
Review: ‘Bonnie & Clyde The Musical’ at Monumental Theatre Company at...
The history of Bonnie and Clyde is well-known. Lovers, living a life of crime. Since their infamous streak of robberies and murders, which ended...
Review: ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ at City of Fairfax...
For those who love musical theatre, there is something amazing going on in Fairfax, Virginia this weekend and next, as the City of Fairfax...
Review: ‘Grease’ at the John W. Engeman Theater
Grab your leather jacket and go back in time to Rydell High, 1959 in Grease. The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport has opened...
Review: ‘Annie’ at Westchester Broadway Theatre
Westchester Broadway Theatre is currently presenting Annie, and this production, directed and choreographed by Mary Jane Houda, is enjoyment and smiles from start to...
Review: ‘Chicago’ at ArtsCentric at Motor House
The city of Chicago is “Hog Butcher for the World... City of the Big Shoulders,” as poet Carl Sandburg wrote just over a 100...
Review: ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ at the Summer Dinner Theatre...
In 1850 Oregon, Adam Pontipee (a velvety-voiced Da’Von Moody) has come to town to trade some furs and look for a bride. We know...
Review: ‘Barefoot in the Park’ at The Candlelight Theatre
Six days do not a week make.
These famous words of nonsense, uttered by the young wife Cory, will tell all serious theatergoers that they...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’
Imagine a bird emoji tweeting. No, it’s not another bizarre White House official message. The Hodgepodge Group has adapted Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. It would be...
Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (remount)
Honestly, I am still reeling after seeing Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon last night. I’ve been wandering around the house all morning, eyes glazed over,...
Review: ‘New York – The Melting Pot’ at Soulpepper on 42nd...
The first in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s three-part musical celebration of the history of diversity in New York - The Melting Pot pays tribute...
Review: ‘to tell my story: a hamlet fanfic’ at The Welders...
Maybe the only way the play Hamlet could ever make sense is to filter it through a teenaged girl perspective. Watching a 30-year-old man...
Movie Review: ‘Landline’
Landline, the latest from Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, the creative team behind Obvious Child, opens with the sounds of… rutting, I guess is...
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 Mark of Cain’ at Synetic Theater
Fans of Synetic Theater's music-and movement-based works derived from classic texts will find a surprise twist in the company's latest offering. Typically, a Synetic...
Review: ‘Night Tide’ at the New York Musical Festival
Ancient sea lore meets Sixties beach party in Night Tide, a new musical parody by Taylor Tash (book and lyrics) and Nathania Wibowo (music),...
Review: Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF): ‘Welcome to Fear City’
Fear City is the South Bronx in July 1977. There is nothing particularly unique about that July in that year in that place.
Fear, it...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Portraits of GRRRLs
The production of Portraits of Grrrls felt like I walked into a high school guidance counselor’s activity. This should not diminish the discussions, content, importance, and...
Review: Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF): ‘Everything Is Wonderful’
The Amish with their horse and buggy, 19th century culture; their simple, old world uniforms and habits; their infamous Rumspringa where the teenage Amish...
Review: Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF): ‘The Niceties’
Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties is a political play that takes the gloves off. It's bare knuckled and it's bloody, though no bones are broken...