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GALA Wins Big Despite Loss at 2023 Helen Hayes Awards
Shortly after announcing the death of its co-founder, Hugo Medrano, GALA Hispanic Theatre swept the Helen Hayes Awards.
Irish Myth and Tragedy in Three By Yeats
The verse of Irish poet William Butler Yeats is known on these shores, but his plays are performed less often. Yet as a founding member of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, he was no mere dabbler. Yeats, an Irish nationalist, did not just aim to write on Irish themes but to create new theatrical forms distinct from…
Eleanor Holdridge Makes Hamlet a Fast-Paced Revenge Thriller
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s quietly mind-blowing production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, is worth a trip to Baltimore.
Here There Are Blueberries Investigates a Nazi Paradise
Now playing at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Tectonic Theater Project’s latest show illustrates how the dream of utopia can fuel genocide.
Playwright James Ijames: Good Bones, Great Timing
There are bets that pay off handsomely but predictably, like when a home increases in value over years. Then there are the jackpots you just can’t anticipate, like when a theater hires a promising up-and-comer and—four years and one global pandemic later—finds itself opening a brand-new work from a Pulitzer winner who’s become the toast…
The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield and the Theater of War Crimes Investigation
As the audience finds their seats for Expat Theatre’s latest drama, their eyes settle on the set, dominated by a large number of scrims on mobile frames, evoking the temporary curtains used to create a modicum of privacy on hospital wards. Projected on these scrims are blown-up details of a popular subject for 17th-century artists:…
Signature Theatre’s Passing Strange Is a Constellation of Self-Discovery
Passing Strange takes audiences on a journey through time and space where they’re sure to find themselves.
Theatre Prometheus’ The Cassette Shop Remasters Documentary-Style Theater
The ambitious project aims to share asylum seekers’ stories, but its relationships feel underbaked.
Silver Spring Stage’s Pride and Prejudice Adaptation Is a Delightful Rom-Com
Jane Austen’s novels make for great retellings, but her political commentary, skillfully embedded in Pride and Prejudice, shouldn’t be overlooked.
Women’s Work Is Never Done in Jennifer Who Is Leaving
Making its world premiere at Round House Theatre, Morgan Gould’s bitterly funny play has had it with ungrateful men.
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