Tiger, tiger, burning bright… In the touring production of Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti from Yann Martel’s novel, and now playing at the Kennedy Center, it is a Bengal tiger named Richard ...

Avant Bard Theatre presents a truncated and transformed adaptation of a collection of Shakespeare’s histories titled The Margriad, or the Tragedy of Queen Margaret, playing through March 29 at the ...

Orlando, Sarah Ruhl’s 2010 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, is a brilliant example of the wholly un-newness of gender fluidity and thought around finding your true self ...

It is astonishing to think that Jonathan Larson, the visionary composer, the voice of a new generation, the tunesmith who brought rock to musical theater in his iconic show RENT, would be 65 this year ...

Lolita Marie in ‘hang.’ Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography. Situated in Britain, hang by debbie tucker green, directed by Deidra LaWan Starnes, traps us within an imagined legal system (in an ...

Frida Libre, a bilingual world premiere, opened to a packed house at GALA Hispanic Theatre. With book and lyrics by treasured playwright Karen Zacarías and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, the show ...

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 ...

Something is afoot at the Workhouse Arts Center. They seem to have discovered a magic spell for executing lesser-known comedic texts that have the potential to teeter but that Workhouse turns into ...

Matthew Broderick as George F. Babbitt in ‘Babbitt’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography. The story, essentially, is one of rebellion. George F. Babbitt is introduced ...

Emerson Holt Lacayo (Abby), Elin Joy Seiler (Amy), Aria Kane (Sarah), and Alina Santos (Ally) in Sarah Silverman’s ‘The Bedwetter – A New Musical.’ Photo by T Charles Erickson Photography. Originally ...

Eden Espinosa and Andrew Samonsky. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. Eden Espinosa stars in the titular role, manifesting the contradictory and self-absorbed nature of Lempicka, who claims ...

The last play of the year at 1st Stage, Laughs in Spanish, directed by Elena Velasco (she/ella), is a rollicking, code-switching, witchy, and wonderful 90 minutes of fun. Over-the-top diva matriarch ...