The tangy DC streets or a soulful bowl of NOLA. From Gumbo to Mumbo celebrates each from its first notes"for what writers and performers Drew Anderson and Dwayne Lawson-Brown do is something…
Homebound's episode nine "Refuge" begins with poetry. And dance"the hazy figure of a woman in her living room moving to the sound of her own voice as the camera cuts to Maboud pulling an old…
Craig (Craig Wallace) has found his feet in this week's episode, "Community," by Agyeiwaa Asante. He's been able to run 2.23 miles to honor Ahmaud Arbery, and now he can't stop running. And,…
If any of Homebound's episodes have been pure joy, it is episode 7, "The Date," written by Dani Stoller, who finally finds Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) a match in the charming pixie-ish L…
Sometimes it snows in April Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad Sometimes I wish life was never ending And all good things, they say, never last Prince wrote that in 1985 on the song "Someti…
Homebound's episode 5 finds us once again with Craig (Craig Wallace), who has become somewhat of an avuncular safe haven for the various souls of Homebound. It's easy to understand why: h…
Homebound's episode 4 shifts back to Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh), who's hanging in his sweat pants, rocking a Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt (long live Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness), d…
Here is the episode that elevates Homebound, taking us out of this moment for 11 minutes virtually to show us how this moment fits into life's larger narratives. It also takes…
If Alexandra Petri's "Connect!" " which opened Round House Theatre's weekly web series Homebound " was a prologue, then Karen ZacarÃas'Â "Human Resource" offers some rising action, rat…
The first episode of Round House Theatre's new weekly webseries Homebound is a quick, slick, fluid slice of life in the pandemic. The opening sequence"a close-up of hand washing as if it's a…
After years of writing reviews for DCTS, I'm writing my first preview! The world is changing, and I'm rolling with the punches. And, it's not for a musical or play, but for Story District…
For a brilliantly good time, call Flying V, who notched up the fun last Friday with The Adult Fan Fiction World Championships. So why are you reading about it here? Because this is a theatre…
Save the Earth. Kick a little ass. Ripe out a spleen (or a spine). And do it all with a power-pop ballad in your heart. That is The Toxic Avenger: The Musical, and, in Rorschach's hands, …
To leap, bound, and twirl through Narnia is to enjoy the storied fantasy world anew, watching the Pevensie children learn the value of sacrifice, friendship, family, love, and, of course, th…
Abstinence and sex. Sex and abstinence. They've long vexed the masses, from noble to peasant as far back as the 1700s, when British writer Elizabeth Inchbald translated a German play roughly…
All the charm in Creative Cauldron's Disenchanted! is homespun, from madcap performances to powerful voices and kitschy props. But the script lobs too much hate at the House of Mouse (…
"Jubilant!" Strange word to describe a play about skin tones, a mean girl with a foul mouth, and the lasting affects of colonialism. Yet, no other word works when it comes to School Girls; o…
Creative Cauldron doesn't shy away from the big and bold, and producing the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast embodies that to the hilt. Amidst its small modest space, the Di…
Singin' in The Rain seems like the type of beloved movie that shouldn't be made into a stage version, with its perfect 1952 film, directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and named by the AF…
Economy or first class? Glasses or inhaler? Go right or go left? Rather, stay or go at all? I say go"go fast to Escape from Peligro Island: YOU Create Your Own Adventure, a delightfully f…
The National's stage has an air heavy with anticipation. Trash hangs across a large set that is part tin shack, part jungle gym. It's as if Marie Kondo has Kondo-ed a junkyard. Everything a …
Pooh Bear is a fuzzy, golden puff full of positive wonderment whose honey addiction still roils little bellies with laughter at Adventure Theatre MTC's Winnie the Pooh, a sweet stroll thr…
Twenty years on. And the horror of April 20, 1999 has not only not dissipated, but it also seems to have continually intensified with each mass school shooting. Virginia Tech. Sandy Ho…
Seems poetic that The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is well over 100 now and still as impish as ever in Finding Neverland. Peter Pan, the eternal boy, sprung from the mind of Scottish novelist…
Gypsy is a grand, brilliant affair. Then and now and forever. And Toby's Dinner Theatre is giving it a first class production. This is the story of Rose (Cathy Mundy). The precursor to th…