Antionette Nwandu’s Pass Over at Studio Theater is not an easy play to watch, but good theater can often be about that which is not easy. Directed by Psalmayene 24, Pass Over is a mash-up of Waiting for Godot, the Bible Book of Exodus, and today’s tragic Chicago Tribune headlines, often expressed in a… Read More
If you love history and humanity, story-telling — and simply seeing the good guy win for a change — then hurry to the D.C. debut of David Seidler’s original play The King’s Speech – which inspired the 2010 Oscar-winning film by the same name –… Read More
Constellation Theater’s production of 39 Steps is a rollicking good time for all ages. A not-so-classic film noir, the stage version of 39 Steps is an antic farce of the original film by the same name, adapted by Patrick Barlow, and paying homage to the genre and… Read More
You might scratch your head and wonder what inspired someone to wake one morning and think, “I’m going to write a show about Jewish life in 1905 Tsarist Russia . . . and make it a musical!” But after seeing The National Theatre’s boisterous, heartwarming… Read More
Right now at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater it’s the summer of 1899, and the newsboys of New York City are about to take on two of the most powerful men in the country — Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst — and win.… Read More
If you’re looking to see a show like none you’ve ever seen before, hurry to get your tickets to Emmy Award® winner John Leguizamo’s sixth one-man venture Latin History for Morons during its short, three-day run at National Theater before it’s gone. Raunchy and rude, yet also poignant… Read More
In Studio Theater’s U.S. world premiere of White Pearl, Thai-Australian playwright Anchuli Felicia King has written a black comedy about selling whiteness, and the dark underbelly of the beauty industry. Sharply witty and bleakly unflinching, the play follows the all female executive team of Asian… Read More
If you walk by Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater this month between 8-10PM you might feel your soul elevate if the stirring harmony of the Fisk Jubilee Singers leaks through the doors of Kreeger Theater into the night. World-premiere musical Jubilee, written… Read More
Written and directed by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Studio Theater’s production of P.Y.G., or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle at Studio Theater is a boisterous, anarchic, and quirky look at race in America through the filter of music and the lens of the lens. What you get is… Read More
If Gordon Gecko took up playwriting in prison, Junk is the play he would pen (in the pen). Directed with a tireless foot on the accelerator by Jackie Maxwell, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar’s (Disgraced) rapid-fire script offers an unflinching post mortem on the origins of debt… Read More
