Stage
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Bill Irwin’s Beckett Effect
Bill Irwin reflects on Samuel Beckett’s writing and how it shaped his legendary stage career in his one-man show "On Beckett."
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Creative Cauldron Celebrates Stephen Schwartz in Snapshots
Snapshots weaves the music of Stephen Schwartz into a story of marriage, memory, and life’s turning points.
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Bethesda’s Play in a Day Puts Six Theaters on the Clock
Six local companies have 24 hours to write, rehearse, and perform original short plays before a live audience at Imagination Stage.
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Dendy’s Nothing Up My Sleeve Casts a Mesmerizing Spell
Dendy’s one-man show at Round House Theatre turns sleight of hand into an intimate meditation on trust and human connection.
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Bill Irwin’s On Beckett Is an Exhilarating Triumph
Bill Irwin transforms Samuel Beckett’s existential prose into an intimate, illuminating, and unexpectedly moving evening.
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Chez Joey Swings Hard at Arena Stage
Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn reinvent Rodgers & Hart’s Pal Joey in a jazz-charged revival starring Myles Frost.
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Stereophonic Is Rock Drama at Full Volume
David Adjmi’s Tony-winner about a fracturing ’70s rock band delivers immersive design, simmering tension, and beautifully rendered songs.
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GALA’s House of Bernarda Alba Is Ruthless and Riveting
Taut direction and striking design, paired with a fiercely committed cast, ignite melodrama in this blood-red staging of Lorca’s classic.
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Keegan’s John Doe Is a Promising Ghost Story That Falters
Grief, romance, and a restless spirit collide in an intriguing premise that never quite finds its footing between comedy and mystery.
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Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Is Campy Fun at Constellation
Constellation Theatre Company’s boisterous spoof of Bram Stoker’s gothic classic leans into parody, sex jokes, and era-mashing silliness.
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Paranormal Activity Is All Scares, No Substance
Impressive stagecraft and jump scares can’t make up for Levi Holloway’s thin story and underwritten characters.
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Studio Theatre’s Octet Has Eight Voices and No Story Arc
Dave Malloy’s a cappella chamber musical delivers striking harmonies but never develops into an engaging drama.
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Synetic’s Antony and Cleopatra Is a Dazzling, Wordless Epic
Sixteen years after its debut, Synetic Theater’s movement-driven take on Shakespeare returns with visual bravado, emotional ambition, and mixed romantic heat.
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Douglas Sills Finds Himself in Tevye
Broadway veteran Douglas Sills discusses reimagining Fiddler on the Roof at Signature Theatre, Jewish identity, and HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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Jacob Dickey Comes Up Lucky as Sky Masterson
Fresh from belting Sondheim with Bernadette Peters, Jacob Dickey rolls the dice in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s "Guys and Dolls."
