Ten Musical Scene Stealers

From a Swiss orphan and her new playmate, to a young Jewish boy on the verge of becoming a man, to a pitter-pattering Lord Chancellor, to a slow-competing, high-tenor singing barber, [Read more...]

The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall

anniehallHenry Blume (Josh Lefkowitz) worships at the altar of Woody Allen, eats anti-anxiety drugs (without effect), writes about paranoia and anti-Semitism to an audience of zero, and lives off the largesse of his furniture-selling parents. He is about to blunder into the funniest play I have seen in DC this year, [Read more...]

Blue Door

bluedoorWhat starts out as an ugly case of insomnia caused by Lewis’s personal and marital stress, professional challenges, and cross-road decisions gets even tougher when spirits of four generations of his ancestry come a’calling for reckoning and reflection. And you thought you had a rough night. [Read more...]

Heidi

heidiFor kids who are unlikely to sit through 280 pages of the 19th century book by Johanna Spyri, Imagination Stage’s new musical adaptation of Heidi is an excellent alternative. [Read more...]