Arena Stage’s world-premiere musical Snow Child tries to be many things at once—the personal story of a married couple struggling to cope with the loss of a child; a fairy tale incorporating elements of magic; a musical homage to the Alaskan wilderness and its local traditions; and a snapshot of a particular time in Alaskan […]
Archives for April 2018
Keegan’s next season packs two big musicals in its 7 show adult season, and 2 shows for kids
Keegan’s 2018-2019 season will begin next September with a reprise — of John Strand’s Lincolnesque, which Keegan first ran in 2009. A young Congressional aide, desperate to save the campaign of his clueless Member, turns to his psychotic brother, who believes that he is Abraham Lincoln. Might Francis be able to produce a — um, […]
Review: Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt
Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt is a bounty filled with madcap fun and laughter. The fact that it’s part of a seven-theatre nationwide co-commission getting its world premiere here is a testament to the company’s award-winning quality programing.
Take Five! with Helen Hayes nominated Designers
Designers enliven the dark stage with light, color, texture and sound. Take Five! with designers: Alejo Vietti, Cory Pattak, Debra Kim Sivigny, Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden, Helen Q Huang, Jason Lyons, Justin Schmitz, Kendra Rai, Kenny Neal, Lindsay Jones, Matthew Nielson, Milagros Ponce de León, Misha Kachman, Neil McFadden, Olivia Sebesky, Paige Hathaway, Patrick W. Lord, […]
Review: Synetic’s Titus Andronicus, wordless, bloodless yet chilling
Take out the words, and it turns out you can make Shakespeare’s most violent play even more brutal and terrifying.
The Iceman Cometh Review: Denzel Washington disappoints the drunks
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope’s saloon are drawn to Hickey, the character Washington is portraying. Hickey is a happy-go-lucky traveling salesman who arrives every year on Harry’s birthday to buy them […]
Druid actors: Beckett was having a bit of fun with Waiting for Godot.
Based in Galway, Irish theatre company Druid is known for its epic productions of large-scale works such as DruidSynge, all six John Millington Synge plays performed in a single day, DruidMurphy, a similar showing of the work of Tom Murphy, and DruidShakespeare, a presentation of Richard II, Henry IV (Part One), Henry IV (Part Two) […]
Take 5! with Helen Hayes Award nominated actors
Actors are Mediums, channeling the voices of the playwright and director through their bodies and psyches to etch a character indelibly into an audience’s memory. Actors responding: Alessandra Baldacchino, Alex Vernon, Anna O’Donoghue, Annie Houston, Antoinette Robinson, Ben Gunderson, Blakely Slaybaugh, Bryan Jeffrey, Caroline Clay, Caroline Dubberly, Clayton Pelham Jr., Danny Gardner, Derek Smith, Doug […]
Review: Girlfriend musical at Signature Theatre
Girlfriend, a distinctly gay love story built around a specific alt-rock album, delivers a universal narrative of first time young love and the music that makes the teen years survivable.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Review: A spectacle that even muggles can love
What if Harry Potter hadn’t existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the five and a half hour play now on Broadway about two generations of Potters and their friends and enemies, was the first in the franchise — not preceded by J.K. Rowling’s seven novels published between 1997 and 2007 […]
Review: Druid performs Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
The accidental Samuel Beckett festival now going on in Washington (Scena Theatre’s three one-acts, Arcturus Theatre’s two one-acts) has been made internationally lustrous by acclaimed Irish director Garry Hynes and the impressive Druid ensemble’s production of Waiting for Godot. With this play, the Galway company has tackled the equivalent of a theatrical Mount Everest, and they […]
Next of Kin theatre festival plays tribute to sci-fi writer Octavia Butler
Writer Octavia Butler is that rare African American woman who found success in the normally male-dominated science fiction literature genre; her work is beloved by fans of all ages and races. She’s known best for her 1979 novel, Kindred, which incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. The Freshh Theatre Company will be […]