Women’s role in the French Revolution is generally remembered to be the image of the fictional Lady Liberty in the famous Delacroix painting, hoisting the tri-colored flag, leading the... Read more
Uncle Vanya is like the relative you once used to see every decade or so at family reunions. Suddenly, he’s been coming to every Thanksgiving. And now you might think he’s moved in altogethe... Read more
In 1972 a parapsychologist in Toronto tried a strange experiment — get a bunch of people together to make up a fictional historical character and then try to conjure him up, though the power... Read more
To counterbalance the echoey chaos of last year, with the Helen Hayes Awards seemed to have been swallowed up by the party it was having at the National Building Museum, the 31st annual even... Read more
With a handful of plays and still in her mid-30s, Amy Herzog may be a slightly premature candidate for a festival of her work. But Baltimore’s Center Stage has forged ahead nonetheless, pres... Read more
The cheery cast of the world premiere G-d’s Honest Truth promises, early on, a story that’s “Jewish but not too Jewy.” Theatre J at the DC Jewish Community Theatre would be the place for suc... Read more
The title of Beth Henley’s new play sounds like an order; at least a nudge. Laugh is her effort to move away from her more serious works from the stage that have included the Pulitzer Prize... Read more
There could hardly be a more reverent salute to a great, twisted film than The Pointless Theater’s well-wrought Doctor Caligari, which brings the influential German expressionist film to lif... Read more
The climactic horror at the end of the Washington National Opera’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites has an added jolt — it echoes too closely the beheadings of nearly two... Read more
Much respect is due the Washington Stage Guild, which has been systematically producing the plays of George Bernard Shaw for more than 25 years. In that time and in five different locations,... Read more
