In the vast, soaring reaches of that old dowager, the Warner theatre, there is a conspiracy of chaos in progress. The agents of chaos are three silent bald men, wrapped in skins of cobalt latex. They are Blue Man Group. We are invited to be co-conspirators. [Read more...]

The long running, award winning percussive hit, Stomp, has returned with a bang to the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 30.  The show is a spectacle of percussion, movement and visual comedy, with no spoken dialogue, that takes the audience on an eye-opening journey of how music, rhythm and dance can develop by using everyday “musical instruments” like paper bags, metal paint cans and plastic tubs.  You will be dancing in your seat to the energizing pulse of Stomp. [Read more...]

The rent is late. No one’s got a job. No one can afford health insurance, and someone has contracted HIV/AIDS. The circumstances faced by the friends in Rent were as urgent in 1996 as they are now. [Read more...]

Few actors are as identified with a single role as Ted Neeley, who has been performing the lead in Jesus Christ Superstar for nearly four decades.  The good news is that Ted Neeley still gives a star-worthy performance in this iconic role.  The better news is that Ted Neeley is surrounded by a talented cast in a first-rate touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar now making a brief visit at the Warner Theatre. [Read more...]

It is easy to praise Chazz Palminteri’s acting ability in bringing nearly a score of colorful characters to life in his one-man show A Bronx Tale.  Equally impressive is his ability to craft such a rich and poignant semi-autobiographical memoir.

Palminteri paints an affectionate portrait of his childhood Bronx, a place where kids grew up on the street corner nurtured by doo-wop music and their mother’s pasta sauce. [Read more...]

The Marriage Counselor

Written and Directed by Tyler Perry
Produced by Tyler Perry at the Warner Theater
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

Going to a Tyler Perry production is like going home on Spring break-you know what’s coming, but it’s comfy and reliable, and there’s absolutely no place like home.  Nobody hits the buttons, unburies the bones, dares the characters to “go there,”  and splashes over the top like Perry.  His musicals fit a winning formula– a mix of zany characters in serious life situations, good smacking the mess out of evil, the healing power of prayer and redemption, and enough gut-wrenching gospel music to qualify for Sunday service. [Read more...]