On Stage: Bessie Smith and ‘Devil’s Music’
The Mosaic Theater Company ignites its third season with a sure hit, a proven crowd-pleaser about the Empress of Blues. "The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith”…
What I Saw at Capital Fringe
I took buses, cars, Metro trains, streetcars, and even walked to the H Street corridor where most of this year's Capital Fringe Festival took place in Northeast D.C. As part…
Stage: ‘The Sound of Music’ vs. ‘Hedwig’
It’s amusing to me that on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the namesake of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, there are two popular, quite…
Stage Review: A Rare ‘Timon of Athens’
Ian Merrill Peakes begins and ends his role as "Timon of Athens" standing in the center of Folger Shakespeare Theatre's stage. At the start, he's basking in his glory as…
On Stage: ‘Laura Bush Killed a Guy’
Lisa Hodsoll emerges as fully First Lady in The Klunch world premiere "Laura Bush Killed a Guy." She's got that soft West Texas accent, the omnipresent smile as shiny as her pearls,…
‘Macbeth’ With Machine Guns
As investigations into Russian influence on U.S. elections continue, here’s a development that has so far eluded Rachel Maddow: They may have also been behind the witches in “Macbeth.” So…
Stage Review: ‘Fun Home’ National Tour
Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” first arose 15 years ago as one of those rare graphic novels that rose above all others, as Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” or Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” did…
Review: ‘Or,’ at Round House Theatre
Holly Twyford has a wonderfully blank expression she uses when taking in the madness all around her. She's also very expressive when setting quill to paper in the rare wordless…
Theatre Review: One-Woman ‘Pike St.’
Nilaja Sun sits in the chair, absorbed in herself as the audience at Woolly Mammoth takes its seats for her electrifying one-woman “Pike St.” Sun may be familiar from her…
Stage Review: ‘Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing’
Bad singers make interesting stories. After Meryl Streep got an Oscar nomination for her role as the classical world’s “Florence Foster Jenkins,” last year, here comes Broadway’s Debra Monk, warbling…