Arena Stage Metamorphoses
By Bob Ashby • Feb 17th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCIn some moments, Arena Stage’s large, shallow, rectangular pool — reportedly the largest used in any production of the show — is used to striking effect.
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Richmond Triangle Players Confessions of a Mormon Boy
By Bruce Levy • Feb 14th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaMake no mistake; it would be a mistake to miss this Confession.
Shakespeare Theater Company Hughie
By Bob Ashby • Feb 13th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCSchiff’s performance is a clinic in how an actor can give a character profound emotional and dramatic force without ever resorting to histrionics.
Virginia Rep Cotton Patch Gospel
By Bruce Levy • Feb 13th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThe story is novel, and Chapin’s music is catchy. Cotton Patch Gospel is a hand-clapping, foot-tapping good ol’ time.
Arena Stage Good People
By Bob Ashby • Feb 9th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCThe 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 Xandra Weaver • Feb 9th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCIf a visually dazzling spectacle was what was intended to be portrayed by this troupe’s work, then they succeeded.
Milburn Stone Theatre 9 to 5
By Jennifer Gusso • Feb 5th, 2013 • Category: Maryland, Reviews9 to 5 has some great moments and is overall an entertaining evening, but it does have a few substantial flaws that keep it from ascending to the level of a usual Milburn Stone production.
Riverside Dinner Theater Ain’t Misbehavin’
By Genie Baskir • Feb 5th, 2013 • Category: ReviewsThis 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 Bob Ashby • Feb 4th, 2013 • Category: ReviewsNext 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 Jacob Kresloff • Feb 3rd, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCKeegan’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.