With the Presidential race heating up, some of us might find ourselves thinking you’d have to be brain-dead to vote for one candidate or another. Woolly Mammoth’s Zombie: The Ame... Read more
It is nearly impossible to think of modern absurdist playwrights without thinking of Christopher Durang. Mostly popular in the 1980s with plays including Baby With the Bathwater and Sister M... Read more
It’s a touchy subject – the relationship between a priest and a young boy. Nowadays, it’s the kind of story that makes most people uncomfortable. Yet that is just what John Patrick Shanley a... Read more
Showcasing the best tenor-dominated songs from music and show business alike, Signature Theatre is now running Signature Tenors. The latest in their Cabaret series, the showcase covers every... Read more
Written by famous screenwriter Nora Ephron, Love, Loss. And What I Wore is now playing at Next Stop Theatre Company. This collection of stories from various women about outfits that they or... Read more
For those to whom silent theater seems an oxymoron, Synetic Theater’s decade-long decision to produce wordless Shakespeare must seem a very strange decision. How does one tell a complex, mov... Read more
At last there is a musical for those who enjoy horror movies. Creative Cauldron in Falls Church has premiered an original musical which may be in a genre all its own. Based on Henry James’s... Read more
July 27th saw the closing of the Capital Fringe Festival. Before it went however, I was able to snag some last-minute advice for post-grads from a show called C-. While that grade may strike... Read more
For any literary nerds who have ever desperately wished there was a way to get two characters from disparate novels together, the Capital Fringe Festival has now provided the answer. Miss Em... Read more
Leaves of Grass is perhaps Walt Whitman’s most famous work, a collection of poems numbering up to four hundred. If that sounds to you like a daunting prospect to turn into a performance piec... Read more
