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 ...

Ken Ludwig. Courtesy of Olney Theatre Center. Lend Me a Tenor — like Lend Me a Soprano — focuses on a visit by a famous opera star to a Cleveland opera company for a guest appearance that is fraught ...

The Arlington Players’ current production of The Play That Goes Wrong is everything you didn’t know you needed to inject some levity and good-old slapstick silliness into an otherwise stressful and ...

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 ...

One of the most exciting parts of this musical is the dancing — the choreography, created by Sergio Trujillo, is fluid, dynamic, and makes you want to jump out of your seat! The actors do an ...

Funny Girl is a weird one. It’s a show with a handful of beloved songs and some leading stars who have made Broadway history in its 60-year legacy, Lea Michele included, but a plot that’s a serious ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staging a new musical is no small feat for a regional theater, carrying significant financial and creative risk but also opening the thrilling possibility of putting one’s unique stamp on the American ...

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 ...

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 ...

In keeping with its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to life for a present-day audience, Red Bull Theater’s current Off-Broadway offering at New World Stages is a limited engagement of ...