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American Century Theater The Country Girl

By • Sep 15th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

The current American Century Theater production of The Country Girl scrupulously documents the curiosities of stage life.




Little Theatre of Alexandria Rabbit Hole

By • Sep 11th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

The LTA production of Rabbit Hole bodes well for the company’s evolution. By community theater standards — by any standards, really — the show is both enjoyable and admirable.




Empty Chair Theatre Titus Andronicus

By • Jul 17th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Now and then a group of actors will take the Titus challenge: Let’s see if we can pump some life into this corpse-strewn slasher drama.




American Century Theater Visit to a Small Planet

By • Jul 10th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Visit to a Small Planet holds up very well today — as the current American Century Theater production demonstrates.




Shakespeare Theatre Company The Merchant of Venice

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Productions of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice keep getting darker and darker, grittier and grittier. The admirable Shakespeare Theatre production further ups the pace by eroding shaky comedy and heightening rock-hard tragedy.




Dominion Stage Psycho Beach Party

By • Jun 7th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Dominion’s ten cast members show varying degrees of inhibition and lack thereof when it comes to making canny fools of themselves.




Shakespeare Theatre Company Old Times

By • May 24th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Refinement and restraint are much in evidence in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current revival of this dark comedy.




Capital Fringe Ghost-lands of an Urban NDN

By • Apr 30th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

The good stuff is essentially humorous. The non-good stuff is essentially grim.




GALA Hispanic Theatre Divorcées, Evangelicals and Vegetarians

By • Apr 11th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Divorcées, Evangelists and Vegetarian exemplifies preposterous, whiz bang farce.




Synetic Theater King Lear

By • Mar 28th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Synetic Theater’s seventh Silent Shakespeare venture presents Lear totally denuded of ornate verbal shock absorbers.