Wednesday, December 11, 2019
If the notion of compressing 900 years of Irish mythology into a single two-hour show sounds like a lot to take on, that’s because it is. In fact, tackling the entire pantheon of Irish leg…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMSunday, December 8, 2019
When Fiddler on the Roof opens at the National Theatre next week, the village of Anatevka—the fictional setting for one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history—will not be th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
When Susan Rome bats her eyelashes—as she often does in Edward Albee’s Occupant, now at Theater J—she becomes Louise Nevelson, the iconic sculptor whose life and work were inseparable.…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Villainy takes many forms. And Ian Merrill Peakes – now plotting revenge against a gifted rival in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Amadeus – has played more than a few. …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMThursday, October 31, 2019
Storytelling is a gift. And Conor McPherson—the Irish playwright, screenwriter and long-time ‘bad boy’ of the British stage–is one of the most gifted tale-tellers ever known. His Por…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Henry IV Part I, which opened at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre last week, is superb. (Click here for DCMTA’s review.) This production, starring Ed Gero, is equal to any I’ve seen. In fa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
More than 50 seniors crowded into a storytelling circle inside one of the Kennedy Center’s new REACH buildings on Monday, and I, as a card-carrying member of the reduced-fare generation, s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMThursday, September 5, 2019
First, the bad news. Enron, the farcical, scary and all-but-unbelievable romp through the biggest fraud in corporate history, has closed. The good news is that there’s still time—four mo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMFriday, August 30, 2019
Although it sounds serious on the surface, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, is one of the funniest plays ever to grace a DC stage. That’s the opinion of my colle…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Ann Richards, the late governor of Texas, and the first woman in that state to be elected in her own right would be howling with glee if she could see the pandemonium unleashed in government…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30PMMonday, July 22, 2019
“Heaven is so boring.” That’s the complaint of a modern-day version of Dante Alighieri in Inferno the Musical, a look at the vagaries of life and love and the inevitability of fate. Wr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMFriday, July 19, 2019
There’s plenty of beef in Carolann Valentino’s one-woman musical, If These Balls Could Talk, about her life as a young actress from Texas working at a steakhouse in New York. This was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Whenever Erick Acuña is asked to play Peruvian music, he launches into a burst of rock. Why not, he wonders, since rock is his country’s favorite sound. But rock is not what his hosts ex…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMMonday, July 15, 2019
Set in a blighted corner of Wales, Iphigenia in Splott is a breathtaking one-woman show, imported from the UK and written by Gary Owen, a Welsh playwright and winner of the Meyer-Whitworth A…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSaturday, July 13, 2019
She Sings Light, written by Claudia Rosales-Waters and directed by Josh Sticklin, is one of four ‘curated’ shows in the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. That means that this highly symbolic…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Improv, as any actor knows, is harder than it looks. And dramatic improv—in which actors invent their roles as they go, expanding on a basic situation in ways that are both comic and sad…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
There’s not much to laugh at in politics today. Nor is it easy to make fun of diversity, gender, Putin, or Pepsi. But that doesn’t prevent the team of talented comedians at Second City…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54AMThursday, June 20, 2019
When the actor playing Blackbeard first appears on stage at the Signature Theatre in the new musical bearing his name, smoke literally curls out of his matted black hair. It’s a terrifying…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
When Farrell Parker steps out onto the black box stage at The Writer’s Center in Flying V’s version of We’re Gonna Die, something explodes. Light and sound—literally—erupt. And whi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
What does a 200-year-old literary classic have to do with the chaos of the US Congress today? A lot, according to Jason Loewith, Olney Theatre Center’s Artistic Director, who has adapted F…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PMMonday, May 6, 2019
Actors, by definition, play all sorts of roles. But for Jennifer L. Nelson—a theater veteran who’s been working on stage and off ever since she landed in DC at the age of 22—the multi-…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMFriday, April 12, 2019
Laura Giannarelli is a woman of many roles. A founder of Washington Stage Guild, she’s been a fixture of the DC stage for almost four decades. She’s been the mother-in-law from hell in G…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMMonday, March 18, 2019
It took a little over 120 years. But—thanks to Theater J—Jacob Gordin’s wildly popular Yiddish drama, celebrated as The Jewish Queen Lear, has made it onto the English-language stage. …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PMFriday, March 1, 2019
From the moment she enters—decked out in widow’s weeds and descending a carpeted stairway—Nancy Robinette commands attention. That’s not unusual, since this actor—awarded the 2018 …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Nell Gwynn – as brash and bawdy as a play could be – has arrived on Capitol Hill. And what a triumph it is! The play, which had a successful run in London’s West End and won Br…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08AMSaturday, February 2, 2019
One of the scariest moments in Kleptocracy – Kenneth Lin’s drama about the struggle for power in post-Soviet Russia – occurs when the shadow of a tiger prowls the length of an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMSaturday, January 26, 2019
Gulf View Drive is the third and final play in Arlene Hutton’s highly-acclaimed Nibroc Trilogy, which opened this week to waves of laughter and applause at the Washington Stage Guild in do…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:11PMMonday, December 31, 2018
The verdict is in. God is not dead. And rumors of his death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the deity—He, She or That Which Transcends All Else—is aliv…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMMonday, December 24, 2018
Talley’s Folly – now in its final week at GALA Hispanic Theatre on 14th Street – is a waltz. Meaning, it’s not a salsa. And it’s not a hustle, a tango or even a hot pasodob…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
The role of Otto in Paula Vogel’s Indecent—the Tony Award-winning play at Arena Stage—is an actor’s dream. The play, about a Yiddish melodrama that scandalized Broadway nearly a cent…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
One of the most remarkable things about D.C. theater is its abundance of good plays, professionally produced and performed, yet often staged in places that are, to put it mildly, a bit odd. …
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