Stage Review: ‘Year of Magical Thinking’
One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones. We wonder about the right thing to say when the actual requirement…
Stage Review: ‘An Iliad’ at Taffety Punk
By now the world is used to inhumane aberrations like ten-year wars. But back when Homer wrote his epic poem, it was still something to rage about, as he did…
Review: ‘Be Awesome: Theatrical Mixtape’
Music streaming services allow kids these days to put together digital playlists for every mood or activity. Once, not so long ago, it was a more hand-crafted effort to put…
Review: ‘The Last Schwartz’ at Theater J
"The Last Schwartz," a play that's perfectly suited for Theater J, is certainly a familiar trope for its audience: Somebody brings home a non-Jewish women to a solemn family occasion…
Stage Review: ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre
If Studio Theatre has a go-to playwright, it's been Caryl Churchill, the award-winning British innovator and provocateur, whose season-opening "Cloud 9" at the theater is as brash and challenging as…
What I Saw at the Capital Fringe Festival
Got to see nearly a dozen productions at this year's Capital Fringe Festival. Which sounds like a lot but is only a fraction of the 130 shows produced. At any…
On Stage: UCB’s ‘We Know How You Die!’
New York's UCB Theatre, which grew out of a small group of comics you know in the Upright Citizens Brigade, now contains hundreds of performers you don't know putting on…
Theatre Review: ‘Hand to God’ at Studio
The long ride up the elevator to Studio Theater’s Stage 4 is certainly rewarded in the regional premiere of Robert Askins' Broadway hit “Hand to God.” Here, the lift of…
Sneak Peek at the Capital Fringe Festival
With more than 130 different productions being staged over three weeks at 20 different venues, the Capital Fringe festival can be an overwhelming undertaking. To ease the avalanche of choices…
America According to Second City
Love it or hate it, the whodunit farce “Shear Madness” at the Kennedy Center represented D.C. theater for busloads of high school students for nearly 30 years. It’s taking its…