Stage
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All in the Family
There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...
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Lights! Camera! Fraction!
Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...
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Victorian Plunge
When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...
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Show Time
At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...
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Brute Force
The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men, that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new...
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Classic Fare
Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...
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Perpetual Motion
It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...
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Masterpieces
Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...
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Comedy and Tragedy
The biggest problem with the farce is that it has become so much part of the high school theatrical trunk. It's a potent mix for...
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Creative Transfusion
With their original blend of high-impact dance, crystal-clear storytelling and keen sense of what entertains, it's hard to imagine being disappointed by anything generated by...
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Heavy Metal
Although Michael Kahn has an exceptional talent for injecting antique plays with contemporary flair, his take on Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist makes one long...
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Songbirds
Washington, D.C., is a city built on two unstable foundations. The first (and most commented on during the summer swelter) is a swamp, though serious...
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Past Presence
David Dower wants to make one thing perfectly clear about The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an Epilogue. ''It's a new play,'' says the Arena...
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Quality Issues
There are some plays that should come with a warning sticker and Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life, is one of them. If you have...
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Portraiture
Round House Theatre's world premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Picture of Dorian Gray is stylish, sexy and unspeakably cool. Unfortunately, it stumbles thanks to the...
