Review: HAMILTON at the Eccles Theater is Stunningly Intricate
by Tyler Hinton - Aug 2, 2024
Returning to the Eccles Theater is the national tour of the smash hit HAMILTON – an intricate piece of historical, theatrical storytelling that tautly weaves together complex language and stunning stage pictures with contemporary momentum.
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - Feb 1, 2024
The painful slow journey for understanding as to what normalcy or perceived sanity is --when a family member is suffering from bipolar illness--- is explored with heartbreaking poignancy, almost brutal honesty and with deadpan caustic humor in the musical Next to Normal. Now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, this almost totally sung-through musical caught me up in its oddly satisfying emotional pulse. I fell into its compelling pull as the trauma of a family experiencing the highs and lows of bipolar illness unfolded.