It’s a classic story of supernatural love and crafty trickery. Bell, Book and Candle is a wonderful play, originally brought to the stage in 1950 and to film eight years later. Vpstart Crow has mounted a fantastic production of this off beat love story for the Halloween season. John William Van Druten’s play is pleasantly nostalgic […]
Review: Synetic Theater’s first Dracula, 2005
Synetic Theater’s unique performance style is a composite of the arts, blending drama, movement, dance, mime, and music — it is no wonder then that its production of Dracula is swarming with erotic imagery and sensual choreography. It is unfortunate though that this show never defines itself as either an erotic tale of terror or […]
Review: The Boys Next Door from Journeyman Theater
The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin is the kind of play that makes you laugh in an uneasy way. One question this wonderfully acted production asks is pointed and direct — can a play about four mentally challenged men living together in a small apartment be humorous without the focus of the joke being […]
Review: It Had To Be You – American Century Theater
Do you ever just want to see a good comedy, one where the laughs come easy and the characters are like people you know or wish you did? I suggest you get on the phone and buy a pair of tickets to It Had To Be You currently being staged by American Century Theatre. Written […]
Fountainhead turns in top performances for Top Girls
Margaret Thatcher’s England of the 80s has a lot in common with George Bush’s America of 2005. It is those similarities that make Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls a play that is relevant today and quite possibly into the foreseeable future because, while times have changed, the basic human desire to be successful at all costs […]
Review: An Evening With Herakles by Archibald MacLeish
Natural Theatricals is the theatre company in residence at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, VA and a wonderful residence it is. This setting is perfect for the classical Greek productions that are it’s mission. Herakles is based on Archibald MacLeish’s verse-play, an artistic statement on the 60’s cold war and its effects […]
Godspell by NobleHeart
Way back in 1970 John Michael Tebelak, Godspell’s writer, attended Easter Sunday church services and left feeling depressed. He was quoted at the time as “feeling the stone was being rolled to close the tomb instead of opening it.” On the way home, the police stopped him and searched for drugs because of his long […]
Agnes Of God – Omaemoda Productions
John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God is a sensitive disturbing and electrifying play being revived in a new production at The DC Arts Center by Omaemoda Productions over twenty years after its original Broadway run. A new born baby has been found dead, umbilical cord wrapped about its neck, in a trash can in the room […]
Disco Pigs – Solas Nua
Pig and Runt, two club kids growing up in Cork, Ireland have a lot to say–and for the most part they say it through their actions and emotions rather than dialog that one can readily understand. In fact they have developed a special language they share in their own private world. Like relationships in real […]