Theater Review: ‘Nutcracker’ Minus Music
It’s the music and the dancing of “The Nutcracker” that have made it an annual tradition in cities across America for half a century. The new production of “The Nutcracker”…
Theatre Review: ‘Five Guys Named Moe’
What could be better than an evening of the music of Louis Jordan and his influential jumping jive that paved the road through jump blues to hard R&B and rock…
Kushner Probes at Theater J
When the Theater J production of Tony Kushner’s “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures” still hadn’t begun one night this week, a…
Two Stage Reviews: Ali and Pirandello
The unusual alliance, in 1965, of boxer Muhammad Ali with Stepin Fetchit, the Depression-era comedian and stereotype, seemed so odd that it certainly deserves an imagined play chronicling their interaction.…
Stage Reviews: ‘Belleville,’ ‘Fool for Love’
Two different plays featuring couples stuck in one place, slowly revealing the secrets that are destroying them, are currently playing in the D.C. area in productions so relentless they have…
Theatre Review: Cold Day at the Beach
The role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is supposed to be one of the prized roles for women of a certain age. “One of those parts,” Dame Peggy…
English Treatise on U.S. Drones
As the audience files into Studio Theatre’s “Grounded,” Lucy Ellinson is already standing at attention, almost imperceptibly. In the Gate Theatre production directed by Christopher Haydon, she’s behind the mesh…
Go Big Dread: Absurdist Play About Nebraska Politics
Politics is such a relentless, fulltime obsession in D.C., it may never occur to you to duck into a theater to take in more of it. But Peter Sinn Nachreib’s…
A Little Walking Around Theatre
After being told I couldn’t even get in the door at the Spooky Action Theatre until my cell phone was shut off, I thought: They are really cracking down on…
Carters Meet Carters at Arena Stage
Presidents have had a complicated relationships with theater in D.C., chief of which was Lincoln's visit to Ford's Theater 149 years ago. Many presidents haven't had time to take in…