Washington, DC Theater Reviews

Review: METAMORPHOSES at Folger Theatre
by Jake Bridges - May 14, 2024

What did our critic think of METAMORPHOSES at Folger Theatre?...

Review: MUMMY IN THE CLOSET: EVITA'S RETURN at GALA Hispanic Theatre
by Roger Catlin - May 14, 2024

After the former First Lady of Argentina died in 1952 at 33, after a life that inspired plays, books, movies, musicals and dance productions, she was such a charged figure everybody knew that simple burial would not do....

Review: TURANDOT performed by Washington National Opera at Kennedy Center
by David Friscic - May 14, 2024

Incredibly rich in detail --from staging to technical aspects-- and emboldened with Puccini’s soaring music and meticulous, intelligent direction by Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera’s production of Turandot is a production for the ages. The entire creative team, the cast, the Washington...

Review: SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy
by Jennifer Muscato - May 13, 2024

What did our critic think of SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy?...

Review: DUA: THE MONSTER'S STORY at Theatre Prometheus
by Morgan Musselman - May 12, 2024

In DUA: THE MONSTER’S STORY, written and directed by Robin Berl, the classic story of Medusa is retold, giving the monster the chance to tell her own tragic tale....

Review: DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - May 12, 2024

What did our critic think of DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center?...

Review: THE HELLO GIRLS at Terrace Theater/Kennedy Center
by Mary Lincer - May 09, 2024

What did our critic think of THE HELLO GIRLS at Terrace Theater/Kennedy Center? The Hello Girls tells the notable story of the 223 female telephone operators who served in the Army Signal Corps during World War I....

Review: REEFER MADNESS at NextStop Theatre Company
by Rachael F. Goldberg - May 08, 2024

'Reefer Madness' is an incredibly smart and pointed show impersonating something far more pedestrian, and NextStop Theatre Company manages to capture this perfectly without ever feeling overproduced or trite....

Review: HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard
by Roger Catlin - May 07, 2024

What did our critic think of HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard?...

Review: HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - April 29, 2024

The producer Larry Klein honored the memory of Leonard Cohen with a 2022 tribute album that had a hushed sensibility and taste, as well as an impressive array of vocalists. Hoping to continue that feel, he began work on an equally fine performance version with the same title, “This is Now: A Tribute...

Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater
by Tavish Young - April 29, 2024

Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good. It's refreshing, biting, funny, and relevant. From April 25th to May 19th, under a few trashbags and discarded cups of tea, DC theatre goers may be able to find Spooky Action Theater's production of Frontiers Sans Frontiers....

Review: MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas
by Mary Lincer - April 28, 2024

What did our critic think of MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas?...

Review: SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY: IMPERMANENCE at The Kennedy Center
by Tavish Young - April 28, 2024

A beautifully asynchronous and turbulent super-organism, Impermanence opened its weekend at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater on April 16th....

Review: AMM(I)GONE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
by David Friscic - April 28, 2024

The semantics and silence that delineate love and disclosure are operating at full throttle in the probing personal story of playwright and performer Adil Mansoor in the theatrical experience that is entitled Amm(i)gone. As the uber-talented Mansoor invites his very traditional Pakistani mother to t...

Review: HAIR at Signature Theatre
by Pamela Roberts - April 27, 2024

Signature Theatre’s revival of the groovy Vietnam-era musical HAIR is wildly energetic, colorful, and full of spirit. The cast’s gorgeous voices and exuberance uplift songs that we know as the soundtrack of the times, from the opening “Aquarius” to the final “Let the Sunshine In.”...

Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS at Opera House/Kennedy Center
by Mary Lincer - April 25, 2024

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, The Illusionists brings the fun of magic and the magic of fun at a time when a little voluntary, recreational misdirection sounds like a great idea. Indeed, through the magic of a big screen and a little camera, The Illusionists have solved the problem ...

Review: VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
by Jackson Malmgren - April 23, 2024

What did our critic think of TAFFETY PUNK THEATRE COMPANY'S VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company?...

Review: PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at Kennedy Center
by Hannah R. Wing - April 22, 2024

On Saturday, April 20, 2024, PASO brought their program, Todo Tango, an intimate and fiery evening of tango to the Kennedy Center. ...

Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater
by Emily Berger - April 21, 2024

This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history....

Review: A JUMPING-OFF POINT at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - April 17, 2024

An exploration of what constitutes the writer’s role and ownership of material, issues of representation in the arts, racial politics and the messiness of friendship and caring are all threshed out in Inda Craig -Galván’s play A Jumping-Off Point. Now being presented at the Round House Theatre, this...

Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild
by Roger Catlin - April 18, 2024

It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.” ...

Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua
by Roger Catlin - April 17, 2024

You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs. Three hundred po...

Review: CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron
by Jake Bridges - April 15, 2024

What did our critic think of CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron?...

Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage
by Rachael F. Goldberg - April 15, 2024

'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little diss...

Review: ISLANDER at Olney Theatre Center
by Itai Yasur - April 14, 2024

Now on tour, a new musical makes landfall at Olney Theatre Center with a fantastical song worthy of our attention...