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Vienna Theatre Company This

By • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Clearly This does not have anything like universal appeal. But it can give a certain generational cohort the encouraging feeling that their preoccupations matter.



Reston Community Players Les Miserables

By • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Reston Community Players justifies its reputation as a top-notch company with this production, succeeding brilliantly in meeting the musical, dramatic, and technical demands of Les Miserables.



Swift Creek Mill Theatre The Miracle Worker

By • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

The individual performances were strong, but in a story where the family dynamics are quite complicated; the performers didn’t seem to quite gel together.



CAT Theatre The Joshua Plant

By • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Berlin and Bucci have created an emotionally poignant and disarming presentation of what life must be like inside the mind of a child with autism and why they might do the things they do.



Milburn Stone Theatre Deathtrap

By • Jan 24th, 2014 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

At the end of the day, Milburn Stone has delivered an enjoyable evening of the traditional murder mystery comedy that is missing from today’s theatre’s repertoire.



Constellation Theatre Company Scapin

By • Jan 22nd, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Constellation Theatre company’s production of Scapin misses no opportunity to combine visual, physical, verbal, and musical humor to produce one of those roll in the aisles sort of evenings.



Arena Stage The Tallest Tree in the Forest

By • Jan 18th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Written and performed by Daniel Beaty, The Tallest Tree in the Forest is one of the most ambitious and complex examples of the first-person biographical show.



Vagabond Players Harvey

By • Jan 16th, 2014 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

With a great script, a truly impressive set, and a few stellar performances, an enjoyable evening is a certain result.



Montgomery Playhouse Blame it On Beckett

By • Jan 15th, 2014 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

The play is very funny, in a bitter sort of way, though the plot ultimately becomes rather convoluted in its attempt to provide a satisfying ending.



American Century Theater Bang the Drum Slowly

By • Jan 14th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

The great virtue of Bang the Drum Slowly is that it presents a story of an athlete’s fatal illness in a way that does not turn into a four-hanky sports weepy.