HARMAN HALL - SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

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...

by David Friscic - September 18, 2024

Themes of identity, bonding, loss, self-realization and especially death permeate the numerous layers of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ thought-provoking play The Comeuppance. This penetrating work explores so many layers that it is best to let the experience take you where it will. The high school reunion...

by Pamela Roberts - September 16, 2024

The Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its 2024-2025 season with a fun, frothy, beautifully rendered Comedy of Errors by the theatre’s “resident playwright” William Shakespeare and directed by the company’s artistic director, Simon Godwin. Godwin layers visual and aural punch to keep the pace lively ...

by Elliot Lanes - September 16, 2024

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) began their classical season this past Saturday evening in a very satisfying manner. The program was entitled Echoes of America and was conducted by the Artistic Director of The Washington Chorus Eugene Rogers....

by Mary Lincer - September 15, 2024

What did our critic think of THE WAVERLY GALLERY at 1st Stage?...

by Jake Bridges - September 15, 2024

What did our critic think of JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING at Arena Stage?...

by Mary Lincer - September 15, 2024

What did our critic think of OH MY HEART, OH MY HOME at Studio Theatre?...

by Elliot Lanes - September 12, 2024

Cirque Du Soleil is one of those attractions that is not easily explained because it has elements from many entertainment genres. Their shows have a very theatrical quality to them while melding circus elements in as well. At their core is fine storytelling, really good production values and dazzlin...

by Elliot Lanes - September 10, 2024

When summer ends many people get depressed. Let’s face it, you can’t go to the beach or your private summer home for another year. However, you can look on the bright side of things knowing that the end of summer brings a new season of audible brilliance from the mighty National Symphony Orchestra (...

by David Friscic - September 10, 2024

The celebrated and now-iconic jazz vocalist and legend Billie Holiday is portrayed as a tormented “just holding on” survivor in playwright Lanie Robertson’s play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. The audience is transported back to the feel of this classic bar and grill to the year 1959 where a t...