Monday, November 19, 2018
Like so many spy stories before it, The Little Drummer Girl starts with a bang. The year is 1979. The city is Bad Godesberg, West Germany. And the key motif is a nerve-jangling collection of…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:36PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
At a pivotal point in Bachelorette, one character offers her take on the state of contemporary womanhood: “Age 12 is when you start to hate yourself.” It’s the closest the play ever co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
“Do u no wot the hum is?” ask the cryptic ads for Hum, which had its world premiere on Monday night at the Atlas. Having seen the play, I now know what “the hum” is. But I’m still …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMMonday, April 16, 2012
The Seafarer – a Christmas-themed play set in Ireland – arrives in DC too late for both the Yuletide season and St. Patrick’s Day. But that’s no reason to miss it. Anyone who wan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMThursday, March 15, 2012
There’s no better place for a story about identity than the theater. No other art form depends so much on our suspension of disbelief, and our willingness to accept that any person – giv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
It would take an ambitious, forward-thinking theatre to capture British playwright Roy Williams’ unique blend of kitchen-sink drama and urban patois. Fortunately for all of us, the play fo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49AMThursday, February 23, 2012
It’s clear from minute one of Astro Boy and the God of Comics that writer and director Natsu Onoda Power is in very familiar (and very beloved) territory. Ms. Power – whose 2009 book, �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
If plays are judged by the sheer force of their emotional impact, Really Really – the world premiere of playwright Paul Colaizzo’s contemporary, college-set drama, now playing at Signatu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Synetic Theater – which has spent the past decade building a reputation for the “synthesis” of its “kinetic” theatrical elements – has taken a break from its acclaimed silent Sha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:02AMFriday, February 3, 2012
Horror is a tricky genre for both stage and screen. It relies, perhaps more than any other genre, on emotion – evoking a gut-level, sometimes primal terror that makes the viewer forget, ju…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:55PMSunday, January 29, 2012
How do you solve a problem like The Two Gentlemen of Verona? This comedy, often speculated by scholars to be the first of Shakespeare’s plays, is one of his least-beloved (and least perf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:55PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The Dark Knightmare Before Christmas and Breaking Hunger Recent years have seen the music industry taken over by “mashup artists” – DJs who meld numerous popular songs into a surpri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:50AMFriday, December 16, 2011
Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage takes to the screen There’s a scene late in “Carnage” in which Penelope – the type-A, upper-middle class mother played by Jodie Foster – asks …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AM 
