The Shakespeare Theater’s production of The Servant of Two Masters is the most outrageously over-the-top, nonstop, roll-in-the-aisles funny thing to hit this town in recent memory.
In a well-intended and generally well-executed, but ultimately futile, bit of theater archeology, 1st Stage dusts off the 1965 Kander-Ebb musical, Flora the Red Menace.
Given the history of the last 100 years, a classical play about the power and destructiveness of irrationality may not be so far removed from our reality as we would like to believe.
Very competent acting and strong pacing will hold an audience’s interest in VpStart Crow’s production of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation.
Constellation Theater Company’s Metamorphoses is flat-out brilliant, knock-your-socks-off theater, from script to setting to lights and costumes to actors who speak and move with perfection.
The St. Mark’s Players cast does full justice to some of the best duet and ensemble music of the last few decades on Broadway, in a thoroughly satisfying production of Simon and Norman’s 1991 musical version of the classic children’s story, The Secret Garden.
People who enjoy tuning into the exploits of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot on the PBS Mystery series will enjoy Little Theater of Alexandria’s take on Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.
It is refreshing to see a human-scale, handcrafted show that touches all the musical, theatrical, and emotional bases one needs for a sweet evening of entertainment, like Vienna Theater Company’s production of The Fantasticks.
For lack of consistently strong acting, Silver Spring Stage’s production never weaves the enchantment the script contemplates.
In Arena Stage’s powerful production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the words sing and the emotions sear.