Rodgers and Hammerstein, the team which gave us Carousel! Sound of Music. Oklahoma! South Pacific. The King and I, undoubtedly have one of the most celebrated musical theatre canons in the w…
Wig Out! is beautiful, raw, and real. And magically human, bonding me to the sadness, joy, and fear of wonderfully deep characters. To be candid, this is a world"the underground Ball Culture…
An hour of music"wonderfully moody ballads, bluesy numbers, and almost twangy folk songs"is always an hour well spent. Even if that music largely focuses on supernatural themes. Monsters to …
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII's many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has a…
North Korea's nukes hurtle toward the U.S."targeting both rural and urban areas"and we've got 15 minutes left to live, all the while being "monitored" by an unknown Russian operative who ins…
Patsy Cline is easily the queen mother of country music"her importance to the genre on par with the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Loretta Lynn. She was a pioneer, paving the…
Genius. Fearless. Absolutely fun. Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World is a pop culture junkie's wet dream. And, given the violence, skin, and sexual innuendos, there's n…
A gunshot. Chaos. Followed by shock. And a nation, almost on cue and in sync, let's out a collective wail of grief. But the cries of a lone, new widow displease the gentry surrounding her in…
Scheherazade’s mystical folktale, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, still spins its magic. Taken from James Norris' 1940 adaptation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, Adventu…
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is as delightful today as ever, and Toby's Dinner Theatre does it just right. If you are a certain age"somewhere between 30 and 40"Beauty and the Beast is in…
The name Donny Hathaway probably doesn't ring too many bells these days"certainly not as many as Stevie Wonder or Roberta Flack, his contemporaries"but you likely sing him every Christmas…
The Mushroom Kingdom is in a tizzy. It's perennial hero (and everyone's favorite Italian plumber), Mario, no longer finds satisfaction in running, leaping, and rescuing, in facing his spiked…
The Snow Whyte of the future is a lot doper than the one of the past. She's also a lot more gender friendly and fiercer. The girl is no longer just a pretty face, thanks to The Freshest Snow…
Like a fantasy disco, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart opens all glitz and glamour. Yet, it isn't as frivolous as it would want you to believe watching Sam (Nicole Spiezio) and Leo (Tommy H…
“Brilliant” is barely adequate to describe Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, which blurs the line between comedy and drama with the infinite precision, speed, and flash of a…
Like its English cousin, An Irish Carol is a dramatic look at life on a day when it should be most celebrated and filled with peace, hope, and love. Unlike its cousin, there are no actual gh…
Dickens"that stuffy purveyor of eternally drab tales"gets a refreshing and quirky upgrade in The Second City's Twist Your Dickens, the Kennedy Center's merry holiday fare that will help you …
The magical, the magnificent, The Magi. This play, wrapped in a concert, is a wonderfully performed piece that showcases the best of theatre: Storytelling. Drama. Humor. Song, along with …
Dark. Squirmy. Brutal. Galling. Backwards. Chilling. A slew of punchy, powerful words ran through my mind, much like the pithy (and punctuated) Tame. on Monday night, as I watched a man d…
Open Circle’s The Who’s Tommy shakes the establishment not with its hard-hitting guitar riffs but with its fearless use of American Sign Language (ASL), a move more rock ‘n…
Debbie Allen's Freeze Frame…Stop the Madness is a multi-media show about gun violence at the hands of cops/authority figures. Dance is its beating heart. Which is good. Because the dialogu…
A musical about a suburban mom and her teen daughter having a bad day doesn't scream high-octane or joyful or laughable, but Freaky Friday is lively, agile, and full of fun, fun, fun. Review…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre's production of Bad Jews is drop-your-eyes, shake-your-head, rub-your-forehead funny. Because your family, though maybe not Jewish, is most probably just as mess…
The wide-eyed, baby-faced babe with a bod known as Betty Boop is an icon"a 1930s cartoon character based on singer and dancer Helen Kane (and influenced by other ladies of the day) who be…
The truest measure of a show is often how it leaves you feeling. Sometimes, a show has got its work cut out for itself"taking someone from an incredibly rotten mood to elation (or deep thoug…