Review: COMEDY OF ERRORS at Shakespeare Theatre Comany
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 ...
Review: ECHOES OF AMERICA at Kennedy Center
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....
Review: Cirque Du Soleil's OVO at Capital One Arena
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...
Review: HEATHER HEADLEY with the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center
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 (...
Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL at Mosaic Theater Company
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...
Review: THE 22+ WEDDINGS OF HUGO at GALA Hispanic Theatre
by Tavish Young - September 09, 2024
A comforting and sweet time, The 22+ Weddings of Hugo offers a little taste of everything on the menu. It may leave you wanting something more substantial, but none the less was delicious along the way....
Review: MAMMA MIA at Kennedy Center
by Ken Kemp - August 21, 2024
Jukebox musicals generally fall into one of three categories: tribute shows which try to reproduce the music and staging of an iconic musical act as closely as possible (Rain, the Beatles Tribute, for example), biographical narratives (Beautiful, the Carole King Musical and Ain't Too Proud being two...