The credits at the end of this A Christmas Carol list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays. He's the narrator, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge's clerk Bob Cr…
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…
You're never quite sure which Claus is independent in Jackob G. Hofmann's meandering, pointless 70-minute video comedy until the very end, and by that point it doesn't matter. In Best Medici…
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced yesterday that it will cancel its limited in-person production of Blindness in light of an increase in the number of DC coronavirus cases. The increase …
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between The World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
The economic havoc caused by the coronavirus has claimed another local victim " Brave Spirits Theatre. The nine-year-old company was in the midst of an ambitious project to produce Shakespea…
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
The DC Theatre Community has been undergoing much transformation throughout the pandemic, beginning with the removal of powerful white men in positions of power. (The Washington Post even re…
Brothers and sisters, think back to the day you asked your Heart of Hearts to join you in eternal matrimony, if there was such a day. Did you do it in the traditional way, at a restaurant, k…
An embittered Ari Roth today announced that he has resigned as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company, the company he founded six years ago after parting with Theater J. Board of Di…
At its heart, Trans Am is an autobiographical ode in the style of a rock opera, that draws inspiration from the folk-rock like stereotype of the singer-storyteller. Lisa Stephen Friday, in h…
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…
February 8, 2020 I sat in GALA's historic entertainment "palace" to review Nilo Cruz' Exquisita Agonia. It was the last time (pre-Covid) I enjoyed live theater. Nine months later, Managing D…
Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard Theatre's Artistic Director, died suddenly yesterday, the company announced on Facebook. W. Thompson Prewitt, wAvant Bard's Executive and Artistic Director since Febr…
Live theater is a dangerous place. We know it as a place where audacious ideas and forms " The Seagull, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America, A Strange Loop " saunter their risky walks acr…
Election night 2020 IN Series opened a cantata-as-opera based on the Senate Judiciary hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It was bold enough that Artistic Director Timothy Nelson …
Before James Corden became known to American audiences as host of "The Late, Late Show," he became a theatrical star in the Royal National Theatre's 2011 production of One Man, Two Guvnors.Ã…
IN Series is presenting its 2020-2021 season completely online and free through its platform, INvision, though paid access has additional perks. Their production of Orphée et Eurydice (whic…
When I first encountered Adrienne Kennedy, through her Obie award winning 1964 play Funnyhouse of a Negro as a student in graduate school, I was surprised I had never heard of her. After …
Roaring is a peek at the tumultuous 1920's as seen through the eyes of a plucky go-getter, Mabel Daniels (Kara Burri). In this fun-filled digital original by Best Medicine Rep's John Mor…
Melissa Dunphy's The Gonzales Cantata, which will begin its run on In Series' website November 3, is an opera with a unique libretto " transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing…
theatreWashington has expanded its Taking Care COVID-19 emergency grant program and will now be increasing the amount of grants available to any theater professional in need living in the DC…
There are not many towns which could be riveted by a tale which revolves around the tax treatment that carried interest gets, but, by God, Washington is one of them. Of course, the carried i…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's peripatetic Artistic Director Simon Godwin, having instituted a six-production 2020-2021 season for STC notwithstanding the pandemic, has decided to use his spa…
All stories are about the loss of power " or, more correctly, loss of the illusion of power, and the more fundamental the loss, the more heart-wrenching the story. Here we are, in the prime …