Arena Stage Long Day’s Journey Into Night
By Bob Ashby • Apr 9th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCIn Arena Stage’s powerful production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the words sing and the emotions sear.
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American Century Theater On the Waterfront
By Genie Baskir • Apr 7th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaOn the Waterfront is a play well worth catching at TACT. The eternal story of conscience, loyalty and martyrdom still resonates in our contemporary times of moral ambivalence.
Shakespeare Theatre Company Strange Interlude
By Bob Ashby • Apr 4th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCFrequent asides are the trademark of this play, as O’Neill voices the thoughts of his characters on the fly, in the midst of their lives.
Synetic Theater The Taming of the Shrew
By Genie Baskir • Apr 4th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCThe language of dance and mine is universal and this company has made theatre something worth paying for again.
Theater at Mason The Life of Galileo
By Michael & Laura Clark • Apr 4th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaA character driven story on a section of Galileo’s life that was well performed and led the way to a new era and way of thinking.
Rockville Little Theatre Frozen
By Bob Ashby • Apr 3rd, 2012 • Category: Maryland, ReviewsRockville Little Theater’s production of Byrony Lavery’s Frozen provides rich opportunities for thinking and talking about justice, responsibility, remorse and forgiveness, and recovering from the most terrible blows life has to offer.
Olney Theatre Center Red Riding Hood: A New Fable
By Michael & Laura Clark • Apr 3rd, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThe three person cast brings to life not only a tale of a hungry wolf and a loud grandmother, but also a little girl who wants to learn about a world of imagination.
Elden Street Players/Theatre for Young Audiences Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
By Michael & Laura Clark • Apr 3rd, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaAladdin and the Magical Lamp was a fun, family friendly show appropriate for ages 2 to 8 or so.
City of Fairfax Theatre Company Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr
By Rachael Murray • Mar 30th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThis is an ambitious production to take on, particularly with a large, younger cast, and features several upbeat musical numbers.
Riverside Dinner Theater Cabaret
By Bob Ashby • Mar 28th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaRiverside Dinner Theater in Stafford, Virginia, provides a faithful, competent, and often polished reproduction of the 1998 Broadway revival of the Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret, a show that has always had moments of greatness along with noteworthy flaws.