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1 week ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds |Randy Shulman |André Hereford
Obsession with eternal youth has always been a hot topic. Theatergoers who can’t get enough of the theme are in luck, as three New York shows prominently feature the idea of enduring beauty: a Broadway stage adaptation of the 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her has two dueling divas battling it out in comic fashion after drinking a potion that halts the aging process.
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1 week ago | 
manhattandigest.com | Ryan Leeds
“Start big, finish big, and they’ll forgive everything in between,” goes the age-old show business proverb. Yet if neither the start nor finish is strong, the forgiveness will be scarce. Such is the case with Take the Lead, a world premiere musical currently playing at Paper Mill Playhouse. True stories make excellent material for entertainment and Pierre Dulaine’s life is no exception. (Dulaine was interviewed by this publication in 2014).
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2 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Purpose – Photo: Marc J. FranklinFame’s a bitch. Especially when it’s weighted down by baggage. Such is the case for the Jaspers, a prominent, Chicago-based, politically well-connected Black family who continue their usual brand of chaos when Solomon “Junior” (Glenn Davis) arrives home for a visit. He’s a state senator who has just been released from prison after 24 months in prison after embezzling campaign funds and committing wire fraud.
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2 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Glengarry Glen Ross: Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk – Photo: Emilio MadridYou would think that, by now, reasonable theatergoers would be exhausted by angry, self-serving bloviates who unleash profanities and cruel language on each other and anyone within earshot. Obviously, there is more demand for it, as David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glenn Ross is back on Broadway for a third time.
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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Ryan Leeds |Randy Shulman
Thunderbolts*Studios and indie distributors are seemingly taking a machine gun approach to theatrical releases for the upcoming film season, rat-a-tat-tatting a barrage of movies at audiences every week of the early spring and late summer. Then, notably, on the lucrative deep-summer dates, fresh choices at the cinema dry up to one or two new wide releases per weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Doug Rule |Ryan Leeds |Randy Shulman
National Symphony OrchestraThe Spring-into-Summer offerings this year in the classical realm are as rich, diverse, and extensive as ever. There’s even a WorldPride-affiliated event here and there, including a two-day festival that will close out May in surely the gayest way ever up at Strathmore. But don’t think for a second that the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington is gonna take that lying down.
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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds |Doug Rule |Randy Shulman
The Last Five Years: Nick JonasClassic tales with Hollywood heavy hitters dominate Broadway marquees this spring, along with two musicals about corpses, two other tuners with Latin flair, a beloved animated book character come to life, a singing cave dweller, a show based on a show, a family drama on politics, and a new twist on a Gilbert and Sullivan classic.
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3 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Ryan Leeds |Doug Rule |Randy Shulman
Weinberg Center for the Arts: The Great Gatsby – Photo: Will Bucquoy A robust fall/winter for dance in the DMV gives way to a lighter but still bountiful spring, with an impressive variety of utterly inviting events and performances to choose from — from Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride at Atlas Performing Arts, and international troupe Compañía Medusa exploring queer themes at Dance Place, to several collaborators melding tap dance with different genres of movement and music to keep...
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4 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | André Hereford |Ryan Leeds
Your Name Means Dream: Naomi Jacobson and Sara Koviak – Photo: Ryan MaxwellLast seen onstage at Theater J putting a tender comic stamp on the remarkable Ruth K. Westheimer in Becoming Dr. Ruth, Naomi Jacobson displays impressive range portraying a very different feisty older lady in José Rivera’s thought-provoking Your Name Means Dream.
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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.
