Here are some links to some reviews I’ve done so far this year for Broadway World, starting with a terrific Othello, pictured above, with Wendell Pierce at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Also:
- What to tell your younger self, listening to emo in the early 2000s in a District Fringe play “When I Was.”
- A revival of the Elizabethan-era play “The Roaring Girl” at Theatre Prometheus.
- A little experimental theater piece “A Fine Madness” at Woolly Mammoth.
- A taste of three 20-minute operas in the American Opera Initiative at Washington National Opera.
- Presenting the history of funk through cabaret at Signature Theatre in “Get Down Tonight: Classic Funk”
- Mixing alchemy and domestic conflict in “Dragon Play” at Rorschach Theatre.
- Intimacy and impact in the stage production of Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” at Shakespeare Theatre Company.
- The Scopes monkey trial gets a new restaging in “Inherit the Wind” at Arena Stage.
- Upending the monarchy in the fantasy “Cake Eaters” at The Welders.
- A one-woman show about perilous situations in Israel and elsewhere in “Stories from the Brink” at Theatre J.
- One play I thought didn’t being at Shakespeare Theatre Company: “Paranormal Activity.” (The joke’s on me; it opens on Broadway next month).