★★★★☆ Director Gregory Doran runs mostly hot and sometimes cold on the Shakespeare masterpiece
Miss You Like Hell: Hudes and McKeown View Mothers and Daughters
★★★☆☆ Rubin-Vega and Jiménez as an estranged mother and daughter renewing their love to songs
The Winter’s Tale: Arin Arbus’ Austere–Too Austere?–Revival
★★★☆☆ The stage direction that goes “Exit, pursued by bear” gets it best showing ever
Feeding the Dragon: A Childhood Sometimes Charmed, Often Not
★★★☆☆ Writer-performer Sharon Washington remembers being the girl who lived in the library
Rocktopia: Rock and Classical Fight to the Death, Both Lose
★☆☆☆☆ Classic rock warhorses meet classical warhorses, but the singers, orchestra, and choir reach no agreement
Pygmalion: Delightful Shaw, With Only Spoken Music
★★★★☆ Bedlam’s Eric Tucker directs a six-member cast with Vaishnavii Sharma as Eliza and himself as Higgins
Escape to Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett Makes a Salted Musical
★★★★☆ Director Christopher Ashley lets bookwriters Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley loose on Parrot Head faves.
Three Wise Guys: A New Runyon Guys and Dolls
★★★★☆ The Actors Company Theatre spends Christmas Eve 1923 by circuitously following an Eastern Star.
The Low Road: Bruce Norris’ Very Funny Colonial Timewarp
★★★★★ The Clybourne Park Pulitzer Prize-winner delivers an imaginative, intelligent, contemporary commentary.
Kings: Checking Out D.C. Lobbyists, with Checkered Results
★★★ Some of Sara Burgess play is fun, but sometimes it feels disappointingly incomplete—in its writing and acting and even Thomas Kail’s direction.