Even if you aren’t a Broadway know-every-word-by-heart nerd like me, you’ll be toe-tapping along to Arena Stage’s excellent production of Oliver!, whisper-singing “food, glorious food” and “boy for sale” under your breath along with the cast. The minimalist revival of the 1960 musical based on… Read More
Erma Bombeck was the pithy, and prolific humorist who lifted the veil of 1950s housewifery, lampooning “the world’s second oldest profession” of raising a family in the suburbs. If you were not a follower of her newspaper column, At Wit’s End offers a crash course… Read More
The Kennedy Center production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical offers what Broadway seekers crave: snazzy stagecraft and sleek production numbers, such as “1650 Broadway Medley,” a composite recording session featuring immortal pop groups performing their biggest hits. All arrayed in an eye catching two-story… Read More
Art is a portal, and in Jessica Dickey’s world premiere meta-meta comedy The Guard, that doorway is both literal and figurative. It’s a play about a painting about a philosopher . . . but isn’t, using a masterpiece and our feelings toward it to capture… Read More
From first glimpse of the enchanting set, audiences will be wholly transported into Olivier Award-winning playwright and Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater inaugural resident artist Katori Hall’s fierce comedy-drama The Blood Quilt. The world premiere play threads together the past and… Read More
