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Damascus Theatre Company Cabaret

By • Feb 20th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

With a combination of poor direction and egregious miscasting, Damascus Theatre Company’s Cabaret lamentably fails to deliver on too many levels to deem worthy of a recommendation.



Taking Flight Theatre Company The Fox On the Fairway

By • Feb 18th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

Taking Flight Theatre’s The Fox On the Fairway had potential and at times some humor, but overall did not live up to the past high standard that they have been known to bring to Loudoun County.



Arena Stage Metamorphoses

By • Feb 17th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

In some moments, Arena Stage’s large, shallow, rectangular pool — reportedly the largest used in any production of the show — is used to striking effect.



Shakespeare Theater Company Hughie

By • Feb 13th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

Schiff’s performance is a clinic in how an actor can give a character profound emotional and dramatic force without ever resorting to histrionics.



Arena Stage Good People

By • Feb 9th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

The great virtue of Good People is its ability to put a vivid, emotional, human face on what sometimes can seem an abstract policy discussion or merely the subject of a 30-second political spot.



Arena Stage Grand Parade

By • Feb 9th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

If a visually dazzling spectacle was what was intended to be portrayed by this troupe’s work, then they succeeded.



Riverside Dinner Theater Ain’t Misbehavin’

By • Feb 5th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

This Ain’t Misbehavin’ is worth the shortish drive to get to Riverside Center and is just a lovely show with beautiful and personable performers.



McLean Community Players Next To Normal

By • Feb 4th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

Next to Normal demands that the characters be portrayed as unflinchingly real, even in the midst of their weirdness and stress and notwithstanding the stylization inherent in a musical. The MCP cast passes this test with flying colors, being utterly believable throughout.



Keegan Theatre Cabaret

By • Feb 3rd, 2013 • Category: Reviews

Keegan’s Cabaret is, at its core, a fun romp in Berlin but it also treats on deeper and darker issues that pervaded Weimar Germany during the Nazis’ rise to power.



Folger Theatre Henry V

By • Feb 3rd, 2013 • Category: Reviews

The dramatized history of Henry V makes for a triumphant play, especially when performed as honestly and skillfully as Folger Shakespeare Theatre has done.