Theater is at its best when it teaches us something. When it makes us think, and reconsider our stance on an issue, or when it carries us away into another land and time, where characters, f…
You've got to hand it to Pointless Theatre- the above title alone is just about perfect for 2020, even if it started out as a simple twist on the company's clever name. As we are all in need…
One would think that a show about joy would have little to do with theater- or much else, for that matter- these days. Yet Synetic Theater, that chameleon of invention, brings us little glim…
The hefty tome of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, a nondescript table, two chairs and a turquoise feather boa is apparently all one needs to stage all of the Bard's output: if you skip a fe…
There's a saying among actors: "There's no such thing as a perfect show." Anyone lucky enough to see Theater J's production of The Wanderers will have to politely disagree: top to bottom, th…
To children, the world is often a large and overbearing place. Think of how difficult it would be if each chair you sat in was three feet tall, the table even higher, and the doorknob imposs…
For those of you who have been living under a rock or putting up moose jerky with the Doomsday Preppers these last few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that ages-old, ever-young cult …
What do you do when nobody's buying what you're selling? Change what you're selling. The long-running Broadway production of Kinky Boots closed last spring, but Toby's brings back the happy …
Some music gets inside your head and stays there. Think "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "My Eyes Adored You". It's pretty much a guarantee you can at least hum at least one of these. After …
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is the quintessential coming-of-age story: Mowgli, abandoned as an infant in the jungles of India, is raised by a pack of wolves and other creatures, who t…
Chesapeake Shakespeare's production of Dracula is just what's needed for this season of dying leaves and chills down the spine. Playwright Steven Dietz has taken the original Bram Stoker nov…
Best Medicine Rep stands out among our newer small theatre companies for location (a store space on the upper level of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg) and for mission: they will only presen…
The decade known as The Sixties contained so may different mini-eras it's a wonder that those of us who lived through it didn't all become split personalities. At times näive, hedonistic an…
Plastic, leather, and love all reign supreme with Up In Your Face's production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Not familiar with the show? In 1995, this wildly campy space musical/murder…
With its clever script by playwright Iris Dauteman, Hatpin Panic weaves a terrific Mobius strip of a largely unknown scrap of history from America's turn of the century women's suffrage move…
To celebrate their 10th year anniversary in Annapolis, MD, Infinity Theatre Company, has restaged their first show and created a new take on The Fantasticks for 21st century audiences. While…
Imagination Stage tells the tale of China's legendary warrior, Mu Lan, (Hua Mulan,) with humor and energy and introduces audiences to a delightful version of the performance style known as P…
Are you aware that most of the Greek and Roman gods can be found working in Brooklyn? It's not much of a stretch: whether driving the Chariot of the Sun, ferrying the dead, or guarding the e…
It's rare that, after finishing a review, I'm ready to see the show again. But then, The Tarot Reading changes with every performance, so it will never be the same. Two years ago, my first i…
A farce, a farce! My kingdom for a farce! Fortunately, you won't have to pay such a high price for this one- though, it's worth it. Ken Ludwig, acclaimed author of Lend Me A Tenor, revisits …
You might call Scena's Pinter Rep director Robert McNamara's arranged marriage of sorts " four short plays by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, the British playwright of such full length pla…
Yiddish theatre in New York around the turn of the century was vibrant: in the small Bowery theaters, Jews of all nationalities and branches of Judaism came to watch shows full of emotion an…
A nonlinear remembrance of family and self, Fun Home was lauded as a groundbreaking piece when it opened on Broadway in 2015, winning the Tony for Best Musical that year. Based on Alison Bec…
There’s one spot in DC where the glories of U Street’s “Black Broadway” are alive and well as The In Series performs From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source …
Since its inception in 1917, 99 plays have received the penultimate Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The category includes musicals and only a few comedies. But the judges were taken with Lanford W…