One of the larger mistakes you could make at the theater is to take a youngster to this Frozen at the Anacostia Playhouse. The grim Bryony Lavery play is not only emphatically not the popula... Read more
“Black lives matter.” That’s the succinct message that’s arisen from protests of the past several months. It’s a rallying cry, too, from August Wilson’s powerful King Hedley II — one t... Read more
Back in the 1980s, playwright Barbara Wiechmann used to marvel at the bombed out surroundings of New York’s Coney Island. Caught between the ruins of the past and promise of future redevelop... Read more
Humans have a regrettable instinct oftentimes to avoid a recent widow – what can one say to the grieving? How to act? This apparently worked against both Mary Todd Lincoln nearly 150 years a... Read more
Bessie Smith is having something of a moment in 2015, 121 years after her birth. The celebrated “Empress of the Blues” is not only the subject of a big HBO bio film this year starring Queen... Read more
The renaissance of timeless animated Disney musicals occurred during the time of “Beauty and the Beast” more than 20 years ago. There followed the golden age of Disney stage musicals based o... Read more
Natsu Onoda Power’s The T Party had its start as a workshop in the summer of 2013. As such, you’d expect the return of the work “celebrating gender transformation” at the Forum Theatre in Si... Read more
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the musical Bible story Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber put together before they did Jesus Christ Superstar (and Evita and all the theater-fi... Read more
“Please endeavor to care as much as possible,” the program for the Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Famous Puppet Death Scenes at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre implores. And so we shall. The quirky... Read more
It’s the music and the dancing of The Nutcracker that have made it an annual tradition in cities across America for half a century. The new production of The Nutcracker at the Round House Th... Read more
