Anybody can put on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and many theater companies do, year in and year out. But hardly any pairs the Shakespearean romp with his lesser known The Two Noble Kinsman, th... Read more
One of the best thing I did at my last newspaper was convincing them to run “Mutts,” the splendid comic strip by Patrick McDonnell. A simple strip about dogs and cats and the people who love... Read more
What could be better than an evening of the music of Louis Jourdan and his influential jumping jive that paved the road through jump blues to hard R&B and rock ’n’ roll? That’s what Clar... Read more
When the Theater J production of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures still hadn’t begun a little after its posted start... Read more
Families can be some crazy places. Within these primal institutions, where psychological blocks are built and broken down, everyday nagging and picking can build into some life-imploding pre... Read more
You’ll be rooting for the central character of Marc Goldsmith’s Danny Boy in the Unexpected Stage Company production at the Randolph Road Theatre in Silver Spring. Not because he’s a little... Read more
The unusual alliance, in 1965, of boxer Muhammad Ali with Stepin Fetchit, the Depression-era comedian and stereotype, seemed so odd that it certainly deserves an imagined play chronicling th... Read more
A nearly 100-year old play by Luigi Pirandello would seem to be a dusty old thing to attempt to stage. But dress it up in kicky 60s clothes on a nifty modernist set with vintage Italian pop... Read more
There are some plays that are perfectly suited for Washington’s historic Ford’s Theatre and Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy” is one of them. One imagines the spirit of Abraham Lincoln look... Read more
Assembling a nice night of operatic arias for a cabaret production, Kathleen Cahill was struck by a commonality among the women in classic productions: They pretty much all ended up dead in... Read more
