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Gala Hispanic Theatre The Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother

By • Feb 7th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

This adaptation by Marquéz’s fellow Colombians Jorge Alí Triana and Carlos José Reyes is an engaging and imaginative rendition of a bizarre tale.




The Children’s Theatre Night at the Wax Museum The Musical

By • Jan 10th, 2011 • Category: Reviews

Put wax museum and children’s theater together: nice fit.




Little Theatre of Alexandria Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge

By • Dec 1st, 2010 • Category: Reviews

What Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge lacks in coherence and uplift it makes up in scattershot satire and darkly comic cynicism.




Synetic Theater The Master and Margarita

By • Nov 16th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

As a splashy, flashy theater spectacle, Synetic’s M&M is incomparable. As an ideological denunciation of totalitarianism, it is unimpeachable.




Signature Theatre A Fox on the Fairway

By • Oct 26th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

A Fox on the Fairway has what theater-goers crave in hard times, be they the 1930s or the 2000s — romance, swanky-but-ludicrous characters and lots of laughs.




Dominion Stage Altar Boyz

By • Oct 7th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

By fusing the waning vigor of Catholic spoof comedy with by-gone boy group vitality, however, Altar Boyz demonstrates the well-known staying power of hybrids.




American Century Theater Serenading Louie

By • Aug 1st, 2010 • Category: Reviews

The current American Century Theater production of Serenading Louie is at least solidly crafted. While not inspired, the acting is proficient.




Gala Hispanic Theatre El Bola — Cuba’s King of Song

By • Jun 16th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Those who pine for mid-20th Century romantic boleros and bluesy ballads, pepped up with the occasional folkloric ditty, get a rare opportunity to indulge their longings at El Bola.




Synetic Theater Metamorphosis

By • Apr 13th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Director Derek Goldman’s take on The Metamorphosis is grim and unsettling. But it is also provocative and absorbing.




Washington Shakespeare Company The Miser

By • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Proving that a show can be amusing without being coherent is this Washington Shakespeare Company production of Moliere’s The Miser.