Stage
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The Capital Fringe readies its 9th annual festival
A decade ago Julianne Brienza saw great untapped potential in D.C.’s strong theater scene. “We have many high-end, expensive theater experiences in the District of...
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”Side Show” and ”Disney’s The Lion King” provide two worthwhile theatrical experiences at Kennedy Center
“Come Look at the Freaks,” goes the grand opening number in the musical Side Show. And it’s quite possible such a exploitative, sensationalistic call might...
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Colman Domingo’s proud career as actor and budding playwright
Colman Domingo's proud career as actor and budding playwright
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Unhappy Days: Scena stages Beckett’s absurdist classic
Happy Days at Scena Theatre and Cloak and Dagger at Signature Theatre
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“Private Lives,” “The Totalitarians” feature strong female protagonists, but leave unanswered questions
Separated by time and genre, you wouldn’t expect Noel Coward’s 1930s ever-so-British rom-com Private Lives to have much in common with Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s The...
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Quirky QFest: Baltimore serves up LGBT film festival
Baltimore serves up an LGBT film festival
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Cock Fight: Studio Theatre’s provocative look at the battle for love
To use a British colloquialism, Mike Bartlett likes to “cock about” with words and concepts. Last year Studio Theatre presented the provocative playwright’s Contractions, a...
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Extraordinary Ordinary Days at Round House
Ordinary Days is the rare musical that ends before you're ready to part with it
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Smokey Memories
Why mess with success, right? Arena Stage touts in a press release that Smokey Joe’s Café, which debuted nearly two decades ago, became Broadway’s longest-running...
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Some Serious Drag
Bea Arthur played the role of Lucy Brown in the 1954 off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. “If Bea Arthur could do it, then I figured...
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Studio Theatre offers Mike Bartlett’s play, “Cock,” poking at sex, identity
The Studio Theatre presents Cock
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Spotlight: The Love of the Nightingale at Constellation
The ever-ambitious and ever-adept Constellation Theatre Company once again dares to stage a large-scale classic tale in the intimate Source Theater space. This time around...
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Worth Every Penny
Rick Hammerly hisses at Erin Driscoll early in Act 2 of Signature Theatre’s The Threepenny Opera. Yes, the veteran local actor really and truly hisses...
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Vaunted Villain
As he started work on HBO’s True Blood,actor Denis O’Hare was instructed that vampires don’t touch each other. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, fuck...
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Oh, Henry
Like 16th century versions of the biopic, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), and Henry V, contemplate fascinating lives through an auteur’s...
