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Reviewed: Amazons and Their Men
Forum looks at a self-deluding filmmaker
Theater Review

Reviewed: That Face
At Studio, an acid family drama.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Sweeney Todd
At Signature, Mrs. Lovett steals the show.
Theater Review

Richard II and Henry V: Duel Citizenship
Michael Hayden takes up residence as two embattled Shakespearean monarchs
Theater Review

Reviewed: Barack Stars: The Wrath of Rahm
Second City puts the foul-mouthed Chief of Staff in the spotlight.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Orestes: A Tragic Romp
At the Folger, wit and rhetoric make for a happy tragedy.
Theater Review

Hari Scary: suicide.chat.room and Antony & Cleopatra
Two compelling takes on self-slaughter.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Rivalry
At Ford's Theatre, an unexpected take on the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Three Sisters
At Source, a rather static take on Chekhov.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Four of Us
At Theater J, a friendship threatened over art.
Theater Review

Threefer Madness: Stick Fly, In the Red and Brown Water, I Am My Own Wife
Racial politics at Arena; Yoruban mythology at Studio; German metatheater at Signature.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Last Cargo Cult
At Woolly, another inspired rant from Mike Daisey.
Theater Review

Song Recycle: Rent, Reviewed
Keegan's remount wisely stresses the tunes.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Young Frankenstein
In which Brooks suffers in the transition from screen to stage.
Theater Review

The Year in Theater
This year saw smashes, revivals, and panderings. Just like the nine years that preceded it.
Cover Story

Reviewed: The Solid Gold Cadillac
At Studio, a clunker about fighting the man.
Theater Review

Reviewed: August: Osage County
Tracy Letts' witty, acerbic triumph comes to the KenCen.
Theater Review

Crave New World: As You Like It and Lulu
Shakespeare on the frontier; a loose lady in search of emotional solvency.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Fantasticks
At Arena, a gaudy, slightly distracting remount.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Show Boat
A chamber-size production of one of America's grandest musicals.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Disco Pigs
At Solas Nua, a manic heartbreaker about a friendship gone awry.
Theater Review

Another Schtick in the Wall: Full Circle, Reviewed
Woolly mounts a frenetic, device-heavy tale of 1989 Berlin.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Ariadne auf Naxos
At the Washington National Opera, a Strauss gem about the limits of tragedy.
Opera

Reviewed: Angels in America: Perestroika and A Streetcar Named Desire
Two characters grapple with an era's death—and their own.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Poe Double Feature: "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"
A ghoulish evening that you'll feel in your "sickly vapours."
Theater Review

Lost in Yonkers: Filler Instinct
Theater J grapples with a cluttered Neil Simon play.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Dracula and Adding Machine: A Musical
Two shows that don't suck
Theater Review

Reviewed: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and The Alchemist
One of these soars. One is leaden.
Theater Review

Reviewed: 4.48 Psychosis
A brittle, brilliant, shapeless play about depression and suicide
Theater Review

The Curse of Black Pearl Sings
A well-performed B-list play about cultural appropriation. Plus: Two knockout Shaw shorts!
Theater Review

Reviewed: Jersey Boys
A winning, by-the-numbers Franki Valli tribute.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Picture of Dorian Gray
An Oscar Wilde update that Bret Easton Ellis would love.
Theater Review

Couples Therapy: The Quality of Life and Measure for Measure
A poignant tale of two trauma-riddled twosomes. Plus: more all-female Shakespeare!
Theater Review

Pinter of Our Discontent: Moonlight and A Piece of My Heart
An unsettling family drama; an unsatisfactory Vietnam retrospective
Theater Review

Reviewed: First You Dream
Remembering forgotten corners of the Kander & Ebb songbook
Theater Review

Heroes and Zeroes: Eclipsed and Zero Hour
A tribute to the second-class citizens of Liberia; a hilarious paean to the indefatigable Zero Mostel.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Camille: A Tearjerker
A Charles Ludlam drag travesty that transcends mere farce
Theater Review

Due West: Dirty Blonde, Reviewed
Honoring the self-construction of Mae West
Theater Review

To Zombie or Not to Zombie
At Rorschach, a delightfully undead Shakespeare pastiche
Theater Review

By the Book: Fucking A and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A flat update of Hawthorne; a disappointingly tidy Kesey adaptation.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Dead City
Rorschach's gorgeous realization of a modern-day Ulysses
Theater Review

Reviewed: Spring Awakening
At the Kennedy Center, a tight, impossibly stylish staging of a sexual revolution.
Theater Review

Reviewed: The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion's grief loses something in the translation from page to stage.
Theater Review

Reviewed: Shakespeare Theatre Company's Transgressive, Transcendent King Lear
To July 19 at Sidney Harman Hall
Theater Review

CP Theater Picks

Theater Calendar

Fri. Mar. 12, 2010 - Thu. Mar. 18, 2010

  • MONDO ANDRONICUS
    A severe compression of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, the earliest and gnarliest of Shakespeare's tragedies (though you have to figure he was going for a Sam Raimi-like gore-comedy thing even then)...
    Molotov Theatre Group,, Closes April 3.
  • AMAZONS AND THEIR MEN
    Based loosely on the life of Leni Riefenstahl, Amazons and Their Men is about a young director who seeks artistic vindication after glamorizing a fascist regime. Set in Nazi Germany, the play jumps...
    Round House Theatre,, Closes Mar. 20
  • ANDY WARHOL: GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
    Written and performed by Josh Kornbluth, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? considers the spiritual life of the pop artist who painted portraits of Albert Einstein, George Gershwin, and Golda Meir in...
    Theatre J,, Closes Mar. 21
  • BUS STOP
    After a blizzard strands a busload of passengers at a roadside diner, old relationships and new attractions emerge between an ensemble cast that includes a rodeo rider, a Shakespeare-quoting...
    Olney Theatre Center,, Closes Mar. 21
  • CHUMBALE
    Hilarity ensues after a newlywed couple moves in with the wife's family. Can they survive the misadventures and misunderstandings that come with living under one roof? Preforming in Spanish with...
    Teatro de la Luna,, Closes Mar. 13
  • CLYBOURNE PARK
    A white community in the 1950s splinters after a black family plans to move into an open house. In present day, the same house has come to represent a changed demographic in the community. Clybourne...
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Opens Mar. 15
  • DEAR SARA JANE
    While Sara Jane waits for her soldier husband to return from battle, she must confront the nasty secrets of her past. After a few too many bourbons, Sara Jane poses some dangerous questions that may...
    The Soundry,, Closes Mar. 21
  • FARFAR OASIS and LOWTIDE HOTEL
    The double bill begins with Farfar Oasis, a period piece about the Western world's fascination–and naivety–towards the Middle East in the early twentieth century. It's companion, Lowtide...
    Kogod Theatre at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,, Closes Mar. 12
  • HENRY V
    The Shakespeare Theatre Co. and director David Muse explore Henry V's war with France and his struggle to lead England to greatness. Played in repertory with Richard II.
    Sidney Harman Hall,, Closes Apr. 10
  • HIGH FIDELITY
    A musical adaptation of Nick Hornby's bestselling novel about Rob Gordon, a hopeless record store owner in his mid-thirties. After Rob's girlfriend leaves him, he re-evaluates his life by...
    DC Arts Center, Black Box Theater,, Closes Mar. 14
  • LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
    On an windy day in Tuscany, Claire and Fabrizio fall madly in love. Claire's mother, Margaret, struggles with her daughter new relationship and its consequences on their lives. Directed by Molly...
    Arena Stage,, Closes Apr. 11
  • LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
    Stanley Krelborn, a well-meaning flower shop employee, raises an odd plant with a hunger for flesh and blood. As the plant's size and appetite grow, Stanley loses control of the increasingly bizarre...
    Ford's Theatre,, Opens Mar. 12
  • LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME
    Oscar Wilde’s mystery novella involving free will, anarchists, social niceties and palm-reading, is laced with enough dialogue to suggest that Wilde might briefly have considered putting it on...
    Undercroft Theatre of Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church,, Closes Mar. 21
  • MAHALIA
    A gospel musical starring Bernardine Mitchell.
    MetroStage,, Closes Mar. 14
  • MAURITIUS
    After their mother dies, two sisters discover a book of rare stamps worth more than they could possibly imagine. The sisters' world turns upside down after a group of seedy collectors, who will do...
    Bay Theatre, Closes Mar. 21
  • MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
    Based on the novel by Chaim Potok, director Aaron Posner's newst play follows the life of Asher Lev, a talented artist born in post-WWII Brooklyn. As Asher's ability strains his relationship with his...
    Round House Theatre,, Opens Mar. 17
  • NIGHTS AT THE OPERA: GOLDEN AGE
    Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's backstage Parisian drama about the production of I Puritani, Vincenzo Bellini's final opera.
    Kennedy Center, Family Theater,, Opens Mar. 12
  • PETER & THE WOLF
    Sergei Prokofiev's children's tale about Peter and his animal friends is retold as a musical. Recommended for children aged 5 and older.
    Imagination Theater,, Closes Mar. 21
  • PUSS N' BOOTS
    The classic fairy tale about a clever cat who dons a pair of human boots and leads his poor homeless master to a life of luxury. When Puss puts on the boots, he becomes a fantastic dancer and uses...
    Synetic Family Theater,, Closes Mar. 14
  • RICHARD II
    The Shakespeare Theatre Co. and director Michael Kahn explore Shakespeare's historic account of the life and death of King Richard II. Played in repertory with Henry V.
    Sidney Harman Hall,, Closes Apr. 10
  • SHEAR MADNESS
    The "most fun night" Arch Campbell's ever had at the Kennedy Center is an extended vaudeville routine set in a Georgetown hair salon rather than a play. Funny without ever becoming either witty or...
    Kennedy Center,,
  • SOME GIRLS
    The Neil LaBute written play explores what happens when an engaged man starts to dig up some of his past relationships to discover the women he left behind. Will he reach the altar, or will he remain...
    H Street Playhouse,, Closes Mar. 21
  • STOMP
    After 14 years of itnernational acclaim, Stomp brings its creative, ensemble song and dance performance to the Baltimore–D.C. area.
    Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center,, Opens Mar. 16
  • SWEENEY TODD
    Cast a Shakespearean in Stephen Sondheim's blood-soaked revengical, and you might reasonably expect to discover fresh nuances, and in fact, discoveries do come fast and furious, though not in the...
    Signature Theatre,, Closes Apr. 4
  • THAT FACE
    London playwright Polly Stenham's debut explores violence at an all-girls school and its ramifications on a family pushed to the edge. Black humor and witty dialogue make That Face a must-see.
    Studio Theatre,, Closes Mar. 14
  • THE FRONT PAGE
    After an invesigative reporter and his editor track down an accused murderer on the lam, they hatch a plan to hide the accused man in a rolltop desk to cash in on the scoop. Directed by Roland...
    Port City Playhouse,, Opens Mar. 12
  • THE GLASS MENAGERIE
    Tennessee Williams' 1944 drama is a delicate yet profound story of love, loss, yearning, illusion and escape.
    Rep Stage,, Extended to Mar. 14
  • THE NEW MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY
    After a mishap with a flimsy bulletin board, Stanley is flattened–paper thin! Based on the children's book by Jeff Brown, this children's play follows Flat Stanley as he travels around the...
    Adventure Theatre,, Closes Apr. 4
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