Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Kenneth Lin’s barbed comedy, having its world premiere at Arena Stage, delves into how Hollywood misrepresents, suppresses and distorts Asian American history.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:18PMFriday, May 5, 2023
The company’s artistic director is leaving after seven years in D.C. to join the leadership ranks of the Houston Ballet.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMThursday, May 4, 2023
Matthew Pauli shines as the stuffy servant in "School for Lies," David Ives’s take on Molière’s “The Misanthrope.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:03PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Morgan Gould’s “Jennifer Who Is Leaving," part of Round House Theatre’s new play festival, features a top-notch cast.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s solo play, part of Round House Theatre’s new play festival, tells the inspiring story of Muscogee leader Jean Chaudhuri.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
A top-notch cast anchors Mona Mansour’s penetrating 2017 play about a war photographer working in the Middle East.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:02PMSaturday, April 1, 2023
“The Crucible” and “Anna Karenina” are among the some newer ballets inspired by novels.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
Washington Stage Guild production of Richard Strand’s 2014 play uses comedy to touch on some of the darkest chapters in America’s past.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Monday’s opening-night performance of "Gloria: A Life" featured an appearance by the activist herself.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:52PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
The creative team for Sondheim’s infrequently produced show includes experts on Japanese swordplay, Kabuki and taiko drumming.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
At Olney Theatre Center, Madhuri Shekar’s 2014 play benefits from Lynette Rathnam’s impeccable comic timing.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Directed by Candis C. Jones at the D.C. theater, the Lynn Nottage play delves into grim systemic problems.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:34PMThursday, February 16, 2023
Nick Payne’s play finds drama in the work of scientists, including the pathologist who autopsied Albert Einstein
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s world premiere is a Spanish-language adaptation that lacks subtlety
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:56PMFriday, February 3, 2023
Choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s “Fortuitous Ash,” with score by Du Yun, is featured in the company’s winter season in New York.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:00AMMonday, January 23, 2023
Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell’s musical imagines the supernatural yet human aftermath of a freak roller-coaster accident.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:20PMThursday, December 1, 2022
The magic, is as eye-catching as it is suited to Shakespeare’s tale of enchantment and reconciliation.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:03PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Produced in collaboration with the Folger, Shakespeare’s sorcery-centric play is directed and adapted by Aaron Posner and the magician Teller.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:42PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Mosaic Theater Company stages all three of Ifa Bayeza’s history-based plays. The most intriguing is the second part, “Benevolence.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:32PMSaturday, November 5, 2022
D.C. production of of J.M. Synge’s play is set in a far different Ireland from the 1907 of its premiere: multicultural, modern and urban
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Synetic Theater production is far more inventive than Rorschach's heavy-handed staging in a vacant firehouse.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:37PMMonday, October 24, 2022
A winning staging of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 1990 musical runs through Nov. 6 at the Source.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:33PMSunday, October 23, 2022
Olney Theatre Center delivers a poignant production of the 2018 off-Broadway hit "Dance Nation," about a troupe of Ohio middle-schoolers.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMMonday, October 17, 2022
“Holiday,” at Arena Stage through Nov. 6, is pleasant enough but tends to lumber along.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMFriday, October 14, 2022
Playwright Bob Bartlett has staged his work in a laundromat. His latest show, ‘Lykos Anthropos,’ is performed outside, by flashlight.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:13AMThursday, October 13, 2022
Written by Ari Roth, formerly of Theater J and Mosaic Theater, the play speaks to a narrow audience.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Nostalgia for a bygone America in the 1953 work by Horton Foote lands uneasily today.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:25PMThursday, September 22, 2022
A terrific cast, led by Lilian Oben, anchors the depiction of grief and tension from Natasha Gordon.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:25PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Based on a 19th-century narrative poem, this revival of the theater’s 2002 production is at its best in wordless scenes of battle and hunting.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:25PMMonday, September 12, 2022
Playwright Hannah Moscovitch drew from her grandparents’ story as refugees in the early 20th century.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:25PMFriday, July 15, 2022
The irreverent, cathartic take on history reimagines King Henry VIII’s wives as pop-star queens.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:07PM 
