Theatre Review: ‘Static’ at Source Festival
“Static” is just the kind of play you might expect from a former longtime sound theatrical sound designer. But author Tom Horan is also an accomplished playwright, which sort of…
Puppet Takeover at Helen Hayes Awards
Constellation Theatre’s adult puppet musical “Avenue Q” swept the 32nd annual Helen Hayes Awards honoring professional theater in Washington, D.C., on Monday with seven awards including outstanding musical. Two other…
Stage Review: Robin Hood in a Bar
Close-up magic, where the cards and tricks fly right under a viewer’s nose, is always quite effective. So why not close-up theater? That’s what’s going on in the Petworth bar…
Stage Review: ‘The Body of an American’
When the foreign correspondent Paul Watson snapped a grisly photo in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, he’d receive both a prize and a curse. He got a Pulitzer Prize for capturing…
Opera Review: A Sub for ‘The Valkyrie’
Ten years of planning and $10 million in production costs couldn't prevent the Washington National Opera from pleasing all the gods in its ambitious staging of all four operas in…
Stage Review: Make Room for ‘Dada’
It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada. At the Cabaret Voltaire, he…
Opera Review: ‘After Life / Josephine’
What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers? They sing. Or at least that’s what happened to a couple of singular women at the beginning of…
Review: Theological Meeting of Minds
One of the funnier political bits of the season was one Bill Maher did last fall on “The King Trump Bible,” reinterpreting the text using the pithy phrases of crude…
‘Falling Out of Time’ at Theater J
Siri, the electronic personal assistant installed on every iPhone, can be helpful in very many areas, but has heretofore has yet to be recognized for theater criticism. Not far into…
Theatre Review: ‘American Idiot’ in D.C.
It seems like a howling musical about disaffected citizens rising up could be perfectly adapted for our confounding political times. Switch on the cable news this election season: “American Idiot”…