Review: AT THE WEDDING at Studio Theatre
by Dara Homer - Mar 18, 2024
At the Wedding is a comedy with tragedy sprinkled in like celebratory confetti that proves difficult to clean up once dispersed. It tries to squeeze in a lot of different ideas, tones, and resonances into barely over an hour. Not all of it lands, but there are seriously funny moments mixed in with the ones that fall flat–and in a story about messy resilience, the unevenness sometimes works.
Review: ONE DESTINY at Ford's Theatre
by Elliot Lanes - Apr 6, 2023
There are several things I can always depend on at this time of year in DC. The cherry blossoms blooming, me having to give lost people directions to the zoo when they are standing in front of a sign that says “Zoo, this way”, and for theatre lovers, DC’s best kept secret One Destiny at Ford’s Theatre.
Review: THE MORTIFICATION OF FOVEA MUNSON at Kennedy Center
by Shelby Tyler - Mar 6, 2023
What did our critic think of THE MORTIFICATION OF FOVEA MUNSON at Kennedy Center? The Mortification of Fovea Munson is a fast-paced, TYA musical based on the novel of the same name, both penned by Mary Winn Heider. The story follows Fovea, a middle schooler who just wants to find her place in the world despite her parents' owning a cadaver lab. Suddenly, when Whitney, the cadaver lab's receptionist, runs off with her boyfriend to Florida, Fovea finds herself stuck working at the cadaver lab all summer. She finds it insufferable... until three disembodied heads need to ask her for a huge favor.
Interview: Theatre Life with Justin Huertas
by Elliot Lanes - Mar 3, 2023
Today’s subject Justin Huertas is currently living his theatre life as the composer/lyricist of Kennedy Center’s World Premiere Commission Musical The Mortification of Fovea Munson. The show begins performances March fourth and plays through the nineteenth in Kennedy Center’s Family Theater.
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS Comes to Imagination Stage This Summer
by Stephi Wild - May 19, 2022
Imagination Stage brings Mr. Popper's Penguins to the stage from June 22 - August 7, 2022 promising the most fun kids will have inside this summer! Based on the 1939 Newbery Honor novel by Richard and Florence Atwater, the musical's book is by Robert Kauzlaric, with music and lyrics by George Howe.
Ford's Theatre, In Partnership With WAMU 88.5 FM, Presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE RADIO PLAY
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 28, 2020
In time for the holiday season and in partnership with WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.'s NPR news station, Ford's Theatre presents a one-hour radio play adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, featuring acclaimed Washington actor Craig Wallace as Ebenezer Scrooge. WAMU 88.5 FM will broadcast the play on December 25, 2020, at noon ET.
BWW Review: THUMBELINA at Imagination Stage
by Jane Horwitz - Feb 20, 2020
We may live in a high-tech age, but little ones still love to draw and make stuff with paper, paste and crayons. And that low-tech delight is exactly what fuels Thumbelina at Imagination Stage, with its interweaving of hand and shadow puppets, paper cut-outs, hand-drawn animation and real actors.