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Constellation Theatre Company Scapin

By • Jan 22nd, 2014 • Category: Reviews

Constellation Theatre company’s production of Scapin misses no opportunity to combine visual, physical, verbal, and musical humor to produce one of those roll in the aisles sort of evenings.



Arena Stage The Tallest Tree in the Forest

By • Jan 17th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

Written and performed by Daniel Beaty, The Tallest Tree in the Forest is one of the most ambitious and complex examples of the first-person biographical show.



Montgomery Playhouse Blame it On Beckett

By • Jan 15th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

The play is very funny, in a bitter sort of way, though the plot ultimately becomes rather convoluted in its attempt to provide a satisfying ending.



American Century Theater Bang the Drum Slowly

By • Jan 14th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

The great virtue of Bang the Drum Slowly is that it presents a story of an athlete’s fatal illness in a way that does not turn into a four-hanky sports weepy.



Synetic Theater Twelfth Night

By • Jan 13th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

Synetic’s Twelfth Night is punctuated with an all out assault by dancers with ebullient polish. They want you to just enjoy and marvel at what they can do with their enthusiasm of youth, no matter what their chronological age.



Dominion Stage Urinetown

By • Jan 13th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

Dominion Stage’s Urinetown hits enough of the show’s high points to make for an enjoyable evening.



No Rules Theatre Late: A Cowboy Song

By • Jan 9th, 2014 • Category: Reviews

Late: A Cowboy Song is a cunning little early play by Ruhl. That is a reason alone to see it; to see how Ruhl has “grown up” into the major force she is now as a playwright.



Signature Theatre Gypsy

By • Dec 26th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

Have no doubts, Sherri Edelen has put her own brassy, striving take on that ultimate theater mother, Mamma Rose, in Joe Calarco’s interpretation of Gypsy, A Musical Fable.



NextStop Theatre Company Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

By • Dec 16th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

It is well worth a trip to Herndon’s Industrial Strength Theater and the Dulles Corridor’s newest professional theater company.



Little Theater of Alexandria A Christmas Carol

By • Dec 10th, 2013 • Category: Reviews

The mercifully brief one-act, adapted from the Dickens story by Donna Ferrugut, seeks only to entertain, a task at which it intermittently succeeds.