Any creative way that local companies find to bring us original theater feels like a lifeline these days, and We Happy Few's genteel caper, Loveday Brooke in 'The Mystery of the Drawn Dagger…
A 16th century queer romance that's a jukebox musical set to the hits of The Go-Gos? It's hard not to think "train wreck potential" when you hear the synopsis of Head Over Heels, the musical…
As Constellation Theatre Company wraps up its performance of The 39 Steps each night, one thing's for certain: the lighting designer deserves his own curtain call. Managing Director A.J. Gub…
When a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. is set at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on the evening of April 3, 1968, it's easy to assume that you know where the play is going. But The Mount…
It's a savvy move on the part of Synetic Theater to stage a production of The Snow Queen right as children and tweens everywhere are besotted with the prospect of "Frozen 2" opening in theat…
In White Pearl, playwright Anchuli Felicia King quickly throws the audience into a keenly contemporary conflict: a viral social media PR crisis, with a company accused of racism. Inspired by…
Jon Fosse's Sea is a tricky play to connect with. Its inhabitants seem at times to be on a boat ("I am the Shipmaster!" one insists, over and over), but it's clear early on that the setting'…
High school musicals are hot right now, with Broadway hosting everything from the biting Mean Girls to the heart-warming The Prom to the phenomenon Dear Evan Hansen to the zany Be More Chill…
Yvette Spears is one of those performers who sings with her whole body and soul. Medleys start deep in her throat and nearly consume her as she belts out the blues, whether she's scolding he…
Broadway musicals' 11 o'clock numbers are often defiant, triumphant character studies or orchestra-swelling realizations of love " think "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy or "She Used to Be Mine" fro…
It's probably safe to say that We're All Going to Fucking Die! is the only Fringe show where you stand a chance at taking home a prostate massager. Despite the cheekily morbid title, this br…
In 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, seven comedic sketches are linked by the loose thread of "show business." A klutzy stand-up comedienne tells academic jokes about Harry Potter, surrounded by hecklers…
Mom's so in denial about having a baby, she's nine months pregnant and still thinks she's making it to her ballroom dancing competition in Spain. Shady used car salesman Dad's hoping to "tra…
Frankie Addams really, really wants to get out of dodge. The teenager and her struggles are put center stage in The Member of the Wedding, a staple of high school English classes adapted int…
Constellation Theatre Company's latest production may be called The White Snake, but it's the Green Snake who steals the show. Momo Nakamuru proves a delightful, hilarious presence as the sp…
Pre-dinner martinis turn into two bottles of champagne, which turn into nightcaps of Benedictine. The alcohol just keeps flowing during Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, and things get more an…
My sister asked me what play I was going to see as we wrapped up our phone call. "Oh, it's a musical about one of those contests where people stand around a truck and the last person who tak…
As a film, the tiny indie musical Once (shot over 17 days for a mere $150,000) was such an unlikely hit that it's easy to be cynical over whether a big-budget Broadway adaptation could captu…
Abrupt decapitations. A chatty, fiendish cat. Magical sorcery onstage and off. An epic costumed ball thrown by Satan himself. On its surface, The Master and Margarita doesn't seem like the e…
Keith Hamilton Cobb (or at least, the actor he's playing) isn't exactly afraid that his director might accuse him of playing the race card when it comes to his opinions over Othello. Once th…
Broadway obsessives who can rattle off titles like Shogun: The Musical, Smile and Ruthless with as much authority as The Music Man and Les Misérables will find a special place in their hear…
So is God more like a Jewish mother or an abusive husband? Both comparisons are thrown around like zingers in Mosaic Theater Company's Oh, God. In Anat Gov's comedy, God (Mitchell Hébert) i…
The glimpses we get into God of Vengeance, the real-life play-within-a-play that's at the heart of Paula Vogel's thrilling, stirring Indecent, are audacious, provocative, tender, challenging…
Whether they're getting dolled up for a trip to the Shop-N-Stop like it's a trip to the prom, or realizing, as the Fed-Ex guy walks away, that they've had an entire conversation with their b…
There are only about a dozen cast members onstage at the exhilarating closing of Aida's first act, but given their vocal power and emotional heft, you'd swear there were 30. Constellation Th…