Round House Theatre’s Around the World in 80 Days is a capricious charmer, with director Nick Olcott distilling the right amount of Edwardian-era fancy into the production without glopping things up with preciousness.
The Dancing Princesses
The delicate rhythms of grief are explored in Imagination Stage’s affecting The Dancing Princesses, featuring a winsome score by Christopher Youstra and a compassionate book by Allyson Currin.
Triumph of Love
Those who prefer some brains with their bong-chica-bong-bong will revel in Olney Theatre Center’s goofy and gossamer-light production of Triumph of Love, directed by Clay Hopper with an appreciation for the old slap and tickle.
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Backstage shows, such as A Chorus Line, Noises Off! and Kiss Me, Kate are catnip for theater lovers and [title of show] will definitely induce looped swoons in diehard Broadway geeks. You thought you got all the jokes in MetroStage’s Musical of Musical: The Musical? [title of show], a fetching musical-within-a-musical at Signature Theatre, kicks […]
Reasons to Be Pretty
Reasons To Be Pretty at Studio is a whole lotta ugly. And that’s good news for audiences who like theater that’s hard to look at. For all the emphasis on physical beauty in Neil LaBute’s cruel and captivating play, the characters are about as attractive as Dorian Gray’s portrait after a lifetime of sin.
My Name is Asher Lev
Jeremy Skidmore’s direction of My Name is Asher Lev fervently captures the passion and intensity of the novel… a beautiful, cerebral production.
Porgy and Bess
The Washington National Opera has opened a gorgeous production of Porgy and Bess directed by Francesca Zambello and featuring a score newly researched and restored by Maestro John Mauceri that reflects the original score produced by George and Ira Gershwin in 1935.
That Face
Studio Theatre’s production of That Face isn’t pretty, but is instead a startling look into rich, ruined children forced to raise their monstrous parents from young playwright phenom Polly Stenham.
Let There Be Love
Center Stage lets the sun shine in with a vibrant and splendidly acted production of Let There Be Love, a 2008 tragicomedy by British West Indian playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah about aging, immigration and social change.
Antony and Cleopatra
Synetic is widely known for its visual poetry and you wonder if they can top themselves after the bucolic bounce of their Midsummer Night’s Dream or the gothic tingle of their Dracula, for example. Yet, they do it again.