Smudge Washington Ensemble Theatre, 608 19th Ave. E., 325-5105, washingtonensemble.org. $15–$25. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Mon. Ends April 22. Remember the shock…
“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., 352-1777, westoflenin.com. $12–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m….
A charming, unfulfilled wife, her fastidious, inattentive husband, and her obsessive, capricious lover. You know the story, set in decaying…
Have you noticed the recent profusion of plays about science? Ever since 1998’s Copenhagen (Michael Frayn’s brilliant mystery about Niels…
Placing an adaptation of a fiercely beloved franchise like P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels in your theater season is a gamble…
This particular Seagull breaks your heart for an unexpected reason: It’s a glimpse of what theater could be like, but…
Strange things can happen when you set a small, intimately scaled play on a big stage. Putting David Mamet’s 1975…
“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense,” says the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s…
Set designer Craig Wollam renders the eponymous house in Henrik Ibsen’s revolutionary 1879 masterpiece as a delicate, robin’s-egg-blue facade thrusting…
Kind of what theater was like in Shakespeare’s day (i.e., rowdier).
Paul Mullin’s bespoke two-hander.
Sophocles in the barrio.
Conspiracy theories and alien-abduction fears.
If ’90s rock bands can reunite, why not ’90s sketch-comedy troupes?
Village Theatre’s production is sweet, solid, and occasionally stolid.
More brain than sensuality.
The dinner is wonderful; the theater needs work.
ACT’s Hindu epic is overstuffed but entertaining.
A formula for box-office success–and sobbing audiences.
Our seventh president as rock star.
