Zemfira Stage The Producers
By Bob Ashby • Sep 4th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsZemfira Stage’s production of The Producers pulls out all the show’s stops, creating a highly enjoyable evening of theater.
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The Rude Mechanicals Lysistrata
By Bob Ashby • Aug 19th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsThe Rude Mechanicals theater company plays up the 1960s resonance of Lysistrata, filling the production with topical references to the culture and music of young people of the era.
Traveling Spotlight Productions Miss Saigon
By Bob Ashby • Jul 10th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaTraveling Spotlight Productions’ presentation of Miss Saigon offers neither transcendent performances nor spectacular staging.
Silver Spring Stage Stop Kiss
By Bob Ashby • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Maryland, ReviewsThe strength of Stop Kiss is that one is left hoping that two characters who are worth caring about will find the resources needed for the next steps on their path.
The Arlington Players A Little Night Music
By Bob Ashby • Jun 4th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCA Little Night Music is a show that is easy to love, and there is a lot to like in the current TAP production.
Arena Stage The Music Man
By Bob Ashby • May 26th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCA sterling cast; gorgeous singing; and well-conceived, energetic and precise dancing make Arena’s production a delight, notwithstanding the conceptual baggage.
Shakespeare Theatre Company The Servant of Two Masters
By Bob Ashby • May 24th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCThe Shakespeare Theater’s production of The Servant of Two Masters is the most outrageously over-the-top, nonstop, roll-in-the-aisles funny thing to hit this town in recent memory.
1st Stage Flora the Red Menace
By Bob Ashby • May 23rd, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaIn a well-intended and generally well-executed, but ultimately futile, bit of theater archeology, 1st Stage dusts off the 1965 Kander-Ebb musical, Flora the Red Menace.
WSC Avant Bard The Bacchae
By Bob Ashby • May 16th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaGiven the history of the last 100 years, a classical play about the power and destructiveness of irrationality may not be so far removed from our reality as we would like to believe.
VpStart Crow Six Degrees of Separation
By Bob Ashby • May 14th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaVery competent acting and strong pacing will hold an audience’s interest in VpStart Crow’s production of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation.