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Arena Stage Love in Afghanistan

By • Oct 28th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Its title notwithstanding, Charles Randolph-Wright’s new play, Love in Afghanistan, now playing at Arena Stage, has little in it of the conventional love story.




Vienna Theatre Company Picasso at the Lapin Agile

By • Oct 25th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Martin’s script is uneven, intermittently humorous and tedious. But the performances at VTC make the evening a worthwhile entertainment.




Reston Community Players A Tribute to the Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein & Andrew Lloyd Webber

By • Oct 15th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Pairing composers with styles as different as R&H and Webber is a little odd — like steak and white wine, a friend commented — but RCP’s singers and orchestra made it a tasty dish.




Port Tobacco Players Fiddler on the Roof

By • Oct 7th, 2013 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

There are some sparkling moments and performances in Port Tobacco Players’ production of Fiddler on the Roof. If only that energy and inventiveness had carried throughout the production.




The Arlington Players A Chorus Line

By • Sep 30th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

A Chorus Line touches the reality of the audition process, at least before the finale in which all the job seekers, those hired and those not, get to parade in spectacularly glittery gold costumes. If only.




Shakespeare Theatre Company Measure for Measure

By • Sep 26th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

The production is full of well-realized character roles, and the technical side of the production lives up to the Shakespeare Theatre’s typically high standards.




Olney Theatre Center Saint Joan

By • Sep 20th, 2013 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

If you value absolutely stunning, absorbing theater, do not miss the opportunity to see Saint Joan.




American Century Theater Come Blow Your Horn

By • Sep 19th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Even at this early stage of his career, however, Simon could write material that greatly pleased viewers, and the TACT production elicited strong, favorable reactions from the Saturday night audience.




Little Theater of Alexandria Caught in the Net

By • Sep 12th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

The capacity audience loved every moment, and the intervals between laughs were very short indeed.




Aldersgate Church Community Theater Man of La Mancha

By • Jun 25th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

This is a well-conceived and successful production of Man of La Mancha that deserves an audience.