The “MOTEL” sign flickers and sputters its message before showtime, forlorn and unforgiving as the Mojave desert landscape, as it awaits the production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love to begi... Read more
When a young woman named Abby returns home unexpectedly one afternoon after nobody showed for her yoga class, she finds her husband Zack home even more unexpectedly. That he was in the bedro... Read more
It seems fitting that LARP and theater would eventually meet. After all, LARP – or Live Action Role Playing, that fringe group of costumes, swords and adopted personalities – involves some o... Read more
The current post-Fringe, pre-fall lull in D.C. theater is being filled admirably by Scena Theater, which is packing the Atlas Performing Arts Center with two Irish dramas, the first of which... Read more
The role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is supposed to be one of the prized roles for women of a certain age. “One of those parts,” Dame Peggy Ashcroft once said, “actresses will... Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find a better night at the theater than the terrific production of Private Lives at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Doffing the Bard in a season where they’ve previ... Read more
As the audience files into Studio Theatre’s “Grounded,” Lucy Ellinson is already standing at attention, almost imperceptibly. In the Gate Theatre production directed by Christopher Haydon, s... Read more
Politics is such a relentless, fulltime obsession in D.C., it may never occur to you to duck into a theater to take in more of it. Peter Sinn Nachtreib’s The Totalitarians, which is closing... Read more
After being told I couldn’t even get in the door at the Spooky Action Theater until my cell phone was shut off, I thought: They are really cracking down on these electronic devices! Actually... Read more
The American sex farce Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight begins in the throes of passion, when what would normally just be spontaneous and embarrassing bedroom barking escalates suddenl... Read more
