Woyzeck
Jesús Quintero Performing Arts Theatre
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Theater this daring “doesn’t happen often in South Florida,” said The Miami Herald. Updating an 1836 German play about a tormented soldier, director/star Jesús Quintero puts the spotlight on a PTSD-plagued Iraq war vet, using songs by Tom Waits that evoke Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
The Night Watcher
Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culver City, Calif.
(213) 628-2772
“The heat of guilt is turned on high” in Charlayne Woodard’s one-woman show about being childless by choice, said LA Weekly. When she puts aside her own woes to explore friends’ troubled relationships with their children, “a finer performance would be hard to imagine.”
Romeo and Juliet
Synetic Theater at Crystal City
Arlington, Va.
(800) 494-8497
“Choreography, scenery, and emotions” effectively tell the story of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in this dialogue-free production, said Washingtonian.com. Time’s flight is underscored by the ticking of giant clock gears, and the tragic ending, though familiar, “still delivers a punch.”
-
No Kings rally: What did it achieve?Feature The latest ‘No Kings’ march has become the largest protest in U.S. history
-
Bolton indictment: Retribution or justice?Feature Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic, John Bolton, was indicted for mishandling classified information after publishing his ‘tell-all’ memoir
-
Chicago: Scenes from a city under siegeFeature Chicago is descending into chaos as masked federal agents target people in public spaces and threaten anyone who tries to document the arrests
-
If/Thenfeature Tony-winning Idina Menzel “looks and sounds sensational” in a role tailored to her talents.
-
Rocky
feature It’s a wonder that this Rocky ever reaches the top of the steps.
-
Love and Information
feature Leave it to Caryl Churchill to create a play that “so ingeniously mirrors our age of the splintered attention span.”
-
The Bridges of Madison County
feature Jason Robert Brown’s “richly melodic” score is “one of Broadway’s best in the last decade.”
-
Outside Mullingar
feature John Patrick Shanley’s “charmer of a play” isn’t for cynics.
-
The Night Alive
feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
-
No Man’s Land
feature The futility of all conversation has been, paradoxically, the subject of “some of the best dialogue ever written.”
-
The Commons of Pensacola
feature Stage and screen actress Amanda Peet's playwriting debut is a “witty and affecting” domestic drama.