I finally saw Wicked on Broadway in early 2022. I went in blind, and as I left, I was sad to find that I felt underwhelmed. Unmemorable, plotless songs plagued the performance, and the show centers ...

Dave Harris. Photo by Izak Rappaport courtesy of the artist. Over the past year and a half, I’ve reviewed the DC productions of Exception to the Rule and Incendiary. Although Dave Harris started as a ...

In Data, Matthew Libby’s cautionary tale of the comprehensive reach of big tech, it is Arena Stage’s technical production that most persuasively tells the tale. The production’s design team is on the ...

Tom Lehrer, the brilliant satirist known for the hilariously clever ditties he wrote and performed in the 1950s and 1960s, really did dump all his songs into the public domain. (You can find them here ...

Toby’s Dinner Theatre pulls it off — by putting on a show that is more energetic, better sung, better danced, and simply shinier than any in recent memory. The Music Man is usually thought to need ...

A longtime theatergoer in the DMV, Eric counts eight Playbill books full of theatrical experiences as one of his prized possessions, and his favorite local productions include Caryl Churchill’s A ...

They say it isn’t over until the fat lady sings — but in Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano, the real chaos begins before a single aria is heard. This sharp, gender-swapped reimagining of Ludwig’s farce ...

Blake Henri as Kent and Angela Iannone as King Lear in ‘King Lear.’ Photo by Alaina Shefelton. King Lear is very much a tragedy for our times: the tale of a monarch who chooses flattery over true ...

With a Greek Island paradise wedding just around the corner, a young bride-to-be snoops in her mom’s old diary determined to find the father she’s never met, in order to make the day perfect. When all ...

DCTA graphic. The Shakespeare Everywhere Festival will run from October 7, 2023, until the end of the year and include Fat Ham by James Ijames at Studio Theatre, Romeo and Juliet directed by Simon ...

It is hard to imagine, especially at this time of year, that anyone hasn’t seen the beloved 1965 movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which opens with the iconic helicopter ...

By Kathryn Willis In Voices from Vietnam, now premiering at Journey Theater in Warrenton, playwright Dr. Harry J. Kantrovich doesn’t spotlight a particular character. Instead, the production’s true ...