Forum Theatre & Dance mounts two plays The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara and Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller that have a an anti-war message as part of their season titled “The Present Moment”. World Wars I and II are the focus of these one-acts that seek to tie the reactions from those wars to […]
Review: Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie
Seeing a Solas Nua production is a lot like getting to ride the biggest baddest rollercoaster without having to go to a big, impersonal amusement park. This is theatre that is so up front and personal that you find yourself totally immersed in the characters and their out of control ride through Dublin nightlife. Dan […]
Review: Spoon River Anthology, American Century Theater
A touch of Americana based on the original collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters, strummed folk guitar and well presented poetic dialog all make for an interesting piece of theatre in Arlington at Gunston II. The American Century Theater identifies rarely produced American plays and produces them for the enjoyment of DC theatre audiences. […]
Beautiful Child, Didactic makes a fearless choice
Like The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee, Beautiful Child by Nicky Silver is a play that scares critics and audiences alike with hard to handle subject material that evokes our most deeply held feelings of disgust. Didactic Theatre’s mission includes promoting the reality of disparity based on a variety of circumstances. They […]
Review: WIT’s Seasonal Disorder comes with all the trimmings
Seasonal Disorder tickets might just be what Santa should bring to all those “bah humbug” sorts that have forgotten how to laugh. We all have holiday stories tucked away in our cerebral archives that may not seem so funny to us, but in the hands of the creative folks at Washington Improv Theatre they are […]
Venus Theatre portends the future with A Little Rebellion Now
Sometimes a smaller theatre company can mount a production that has so much enthusiasm and heart that one looks past technical issues and the company’s shoestring budget and just says “Who Cares! The show just rocks”. Venus Theatre has mounted A Little Rebellion Now at The Warehouse Theatre and it has that feel of true theatre excitement that is hard […]
Review: If We Are Women, Washington Stage Guild
If We Are Women currently at the former Living Stage space is an overly wordy story of three generations of women spending a leisurely day at a Connecticut beach house — we suffer through moaning, groaning and discussions of who had the more primitive method of dealing with menstruation. Jess (Lynn Steinmetz) is mourning her just passed […]
Review: Kingdom from African Continuum Theatre
Kingdom, currently mounted at the Atlas Center For The Arts, is without doubt the most interesting production I have seen this year. Now keep in mind I did not say the best but it is close and it is fantastic. Take a large cup of Richard III, throw in some BBQ chicken and red Kool-Aid, add […]
High level theatre – Low Level Panic from Open Circle Theatre
Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre, currently mounted at The Playbill Cafe by Open Circle Theatre, seeks to examine the rolls sex, pornography and personal identity play in women’s lives. Three young women (Jo, Mary and Celia) share not only a home, but also a bathroom, where they express their feelings about their lives, loves, […]
Review: Hapgood, a game of Spy vs Spy
As Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart Again fades into the background, WSC’s newest production, Hapgood, opens in the men’s changing rooms of a public swimming pool where a complex trade of top secret information is taking place. Briefcases slide under this door then that door so many times it takes quantum physics to explain […]
Streetcar Named Desire at Keegan Theatre
James Lee Burke wrote: “New Orleans isn’t a city. It’s a Petrarchan sonnet. There’s no other place on the planet like it. I think it was sawed loose from South America and blown by trade winds across the Caribbean until it affixed itself to the southern rim of the United States. Every antithetical element in […]
Dan Brick stars as MisterMan at DCAC
MisterMan is forty five minutes of Dan Brick and that alone is enough reason for anyone to see this one man show at DC Arts Center. Mr. Brick is able to take command of an audience with great skill. His has an ability to bring a smile to your face while knowing full well that […]