Review: ESCAPE FROM THE ASYLUM at Washington Stage Guild
by Roger Catlin - February 05, 2025
The latest offering from Washington Stage Guild, “Escape from the Asylum: A Madcap Mystery,” is a sequel to the Patricia Milton play presented there last season, “The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective.”...
Review: SCHMIGADOON at Kennedy Center
by Elliot Lanes - February 04, 2025
During the pandemic, musical theatre lovers were hit with withdrawal. Apple TV took us out of our funk when Schmigadoon hit the air in July of 2021. The series took an original story line and based it around a specific genre of musical theatre. The result had us laughing and singing along for two se...
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Capital One Hall
by Pamela Roberts - February 02, 2025
The national tour of COME FROM AWAY is making a brief stop at Capital One Hall in Tysons – just five performances Friday, Jan. 31 to Sunday, Feb. 2 – so act quickly. This show is good medicine to soothe rough times....
Review: TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at National Theatre
by David Friscic - January 27, 2025
Twenty -six musical numbers (including two welcome encores) shine like mega-watt voltage in the dynamic musical story of family woes, domestic abuse and racism that are all overcome in tribute to the resiliency of the human spirit of survival in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical now playing at the Natio...
Review: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - January 23, 2025
The fine playwright Heidi Schreck has written an impassioned play about the many undercurrents and issues that percolate throughout the United States Constitution in the stimulating and invigorating production What the Constitution Means to Me. The constant tension between this cherished document as...
Review: WHO CARES: THE CAREGIVER INTERVIEW PROJECT at Voices Festival Productions
by Roger Catlin - January 17, 2025
Health care systems and society in general has never adjusted to just how long people are living these days. It’s fallen largely to family members to do their best to help their elders stay at home as long as possible. The strained efforts have had a huge effect on all these volunteer caregivers, tr...