Review: THE BEDWETTER at Arena Stage
by Dara Homer - February 15, 2025
Based on comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter uses brazen humor to explore themes of broken family bonds, depression, and being different....
Review: ABT'S CRIME AND PUNISHMENT at Kennedy Center
by Emily Berger - February 14, 2025
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) regularly brings new story ballets to DC for their Kennedy Center performances and this year was no different. Crime and Punishment, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, premiered in New York in the fall and is the first full-length ballet by a female choreographer ...
Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Constellation Theatre
by Brian Bochicchio - February 12, 2025
The title is not a typo. Hey, what are the odds? Could it be kismet, a prearranged theatrical landing spot, or totally happenstance? And if we cosmically reset the situation, would it happen again in the same way? Would we want it to happen the same way?...
Review: FUENTEOVEJUNA at GALA Hispanic Theatre
by Audrey Cahak - February 13, 2025
Written in 1613 by Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna is widely considered a masterpiece by the most influential playwright from Spain’s golden age. The play depicts a town revolting against tyrannical rule during a period of countrywide political unrest, based on the real events of the Fuenteovejuna villa...
Review: HAND TO GOD at Keegan Theatre
by David Friscic - February 10, 2025
The audacious and lively play Hand to God is a daring and yet, an oddly compelling and textured meditation, on society’s hypocrisies set within a more intimate framework of five characters whose minds are tortured with clashes between reason and fiery lust -driven passions. This play makes the puppe...
Review: THE GARBOLOGISTS at Theater Alliance
by Roger Catlin - February 09, 2025
It’s fitting that the Theater Alliance’s terrific new offering “The Garbologists” is presented in a temporary pop-up in the sprawling ground floor of a new apartment building — an industrial, no-frills empty retail space that could serve as a truck garage for the two workers featured in Lindsay Joel...
Review: PATTI LUPONE: A LIFE IN NOTES at Strathmore
by Mary Lincer - February 07, 2025
In the late 1960s (in her late 60s), cabaret étoile Mabel Mercer added the utterly goofy 'Wait 'til We're 65' (by Lerner & Lane) to her sets; when she was well past 50, Barbara Cook began including Harper & Zippel's wildly funny 'The Ingenue' to her shows, simultaneously sending up her rivals and ag...