DEEP RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

by Jackson Malmgren - September 25, 2024

What did our critic think of CRACKING ZEUS at Spooky Action Theater?...

by Elliot Lanes - September 25, 2024

The Four Seasons had a hit song many years ago with a lyric that went “Oh! What a Night!” That is how I can best describe watching singer/songwriter/actress Sara Bareilles with YOUR National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), under the always stellar direction of Maestro Steven Reineke in Kennedy Center’s Co...

by Roger Catlin - September 25, 2024

But the new play by Dave Harris at Studio Theater is framed the same way: Six people marooned in an afterschool detention classroom on the Friday before Martin Luther King weekend, who bicker, flirt, nearly fight, and wonder if the presiding teacher will ever come to sign forms allowing them to go h...

by Ken Kemp - September 23, 2024

What did our critic think of SHREK THE MUSICAL at Capital One Hall?...

by Pamela Roberts - September 22, 2024

Primary Trust is a touching, intimate, and deeply affecting work. The 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winner is making its Washington-area premiere at Signature Theatre in an outstanding production directed by Obie Award winner Taylor Reynolds....

by Dara Homer - September 22, 2024

What happens to the characters in a play when they’re not on stage? Do they continue to exist in a narrative limbo outside of time? Does the paradox of characters without stories parallel how we struggle to find meaning in life’s entrances and exits?...

by Itai Yasur - September 21, 2024

CLUE: LIVE ON STAGE! at The Kennedy Center Opera House is a sharp and breezy murder-mystery farce right at home in DC....

by Michela Dwyer - September 20, 2024

What did our critic think of DISTRICT CHOREOGRAPHER'S DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 at Dance Place?...

by David Friscic - September 19, 2024

Nigerian ancestry, and American ideals clash, merge, and play off each other in Sojourners by playwright Mfoniso Udofia ---this deeply moving play is part of the epic nine-play Ufot Cycle which follows a Nigerian American family through many cycles of life and generations. This production, presented...

by Elliot Lanes - September 18, 2024

Every once in a while, you see the billing for a concert and think to yourself “That’s an interesting combination”. This was my exact thought at Wolf Trap with Broadway superstars Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming on the same bill. Don’t get me wrong, their talent is not to be questioned. It’s more...