Dust off your tiaras and opera glasses, the Washington National Opera (WNO) 2016-2017 season is underway. “The Marriage of Figaro” (“Le nozze di Figaro”) is an Italian language opera buffs w... Read more
Trump, Trump, Trump. That man is everywhere lately. I am no fan of Donald Trump and was skeptical of a play that draws further attention to him. Created and performed by Mike Daisey and Dire... Read more
In 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera hit Broadway after a successful debut on the West End, scooping up the Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as the Tony Award for Best... Read more
Written by Robert James Walter in 1992, The Bridges of Madison County was first turned into a movie in 1995 starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The Tony Award-winning musical The Bridg... Read more
We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woolly Ma... Read more
Ceramic plates and pint glasses banged and clanged in the bar above my head. It could have been wildly distracting but nay! I couldn’t look away from the madcap performance mere inches from... Read more
Hedda Gabler has a scandalous reputation. Premiered in Munich in 1891, Hedda Gabler shocked and scandalized. One reviewer in 1904 went so far as to label Hedda a “vicious, heartless, cowardl... Read more
Almost everyone has lost someone they love. The aftermath can be bewildering. Playwright David Auburn’s Proof delves headlong into the repercussions of loss, love, genius and madness for one... Read more
Playwright Jennifer Haley’s The Nether is set in 2050 when Earth is a dystopian wasteland and humanity seeks refuge in the Nether, an interactive wonderland where anything and everything is... Read more
Moment is much more than another biblical tall tale of quick forgiveness. Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan traps a dysfunctional family into one room to interact passive aggressively employi... Read more
