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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Kate Wingfield
#Charlottesville: Priyanka ShettyPriyanka Shetty’s incisive solo play #Charlottesville starts by asking, “Priyanka, where were you on August 11 and 12, 2017?”Those days will live in infamy, not only for the brigade of torch-carrying, Dockers-wearing dickheads marching through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, but for the tragic death of Heather Heyer, killed by a self-avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Kate Wingfield
Sister Act – Photo: Scott SuchmanBlessed with a sweet yet sturdy redemption story, Sister Act, based on the hit 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, is a natural fit as a screen-to-stage musical. The tale of lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier hiding out from her murderous crime boss boyfriend in the last place he’d think to look for her — a convent full of singing nuns — eagerly lends itself to set-pieces full of singing and dancing.
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4 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Kate Wingfield |André Hereford |Randy Shulman
The Immigrant – Photo: Katerina KatoLike life imitating art and art imitating life, Synetic Theater currently has rather a lot in common with the subject of their production of The Immigrant, a riff on Charlie Chaplin and his tragic-comic character known as the Little Fellow. Not only are Synetic’s founders themselves immigrants, but the company is now as homeless as Chaplin’s character.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | Kate Wingfield |Ryan Leeds |Doug Rule
It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure – Photo: Cameron WhitmanArriving at a particularly tense time for the nation’s capital, Woolly Mammoth’s funny, subversive It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure is a breath of fresh air. It’s inoculated in that this is British-born and performed theater — and the Brits really do get something of a pass when it comes to the kind of irreverence that would otherwise raise eyebrows and hackles.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Kate Wingfield |Randy Shulman
ThroupleIt takes two to tango, with good reason — add one, and the footwork gets way more intricate, to say nothing of where all the other parts go. An adventurous couple and an enthusiastic third try out their footwork, and stumble through the dance, in the Brooklyn-set queer indie Throuple, a notable feature debut for director Greyson Horst.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | Kate Wingfield |André Hereford
Kunene and the King: John Kani and Edward Gero – Photo: Teresa CastracaneIt can’t be easy to write a play that successfully cries out to the world “Look what happened here! Understand!” Many fall way too hard on the side of over-explaining, feeding the drama with fiction-busting expository and presenting their characters as either heroes or villains to make every point crystal clear. Their hearts may be in the right place, but they so woefully underestimate their audience that they lose it.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
metroweekly.com | Doug Rule |Randy Shulman |Kate Wingfield
The Holiday Show: Gay Men’s Chorus of WashingtonThe holidays can be overwhelming, and that goes for all the ways you can celebrate the holidays, too. So we thought we’d help out by culling through the festivities to select a few of the very best. We’ll do it again next week with a whole new crop of outings to consider for getting your holly jollies on.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |John Riley |Ryan Leeds |Kate Wingfield
Gladiator II – Paul MescalSUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTERFor those who are about to dive into Gladiator II feeling foggy about where the first film left off, director Ridley Scott salutes you with a pithy animated opening-credit sequence recapping the saga of champion Maximus Decimus Meridius.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Ryan Leeds |Kate Wingfield
Wicked: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – Photo: Universal PicturesEverything that’s popular won’t be popular with everyone. That’s one of many lessons learned in the musical Wicked by the self-proclaimed princess of “Popular,” Galinda, and it applies to people, places, films, film reviews, and the musical Wicked. Over the course of the show’s journey through Oz, Galinda eventually becomes Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, sworn foe of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, formerly her friend.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds |Kate Wingfield |André Hereford
Maybe Happy Ending: Darren Criss – Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan ZimmermanREAD THIS REVIEW IN THE MAGAZINEAsk Alexa if she’s ever been in love. Chances are, she’ll reply with a cheeky and playful answer that was preprogrammed by Artificial Intelligence.
