Sleepy Hollow by Synetic Theatre at Olney Theatre Center by Lisa Traiger

As daylight wanes, autumn brings forth spooky season. Halloween may be the centerpiece of longer nights and colder days, but more indoor time lends itself to ghostly tales. In the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region, no theater does better at unsettling minds and sending chills through theater goers than Synetic Theater.

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News & Reviews Stage Review

June 10, 2026

Mosaic Theater Company’s Precarious by Audrey Brown

In the aftermath of the pandemic years, when the reality was the reverse for many young twenty- and thirty-somes, playwright Steph Del Rosso flips the script, forcing climate warrior Vi into her daughter Tillie’s one-bedroom New York apartment that she shares with partner Drew. Chaos and comedy ensue—or rather, a series of chaotic, comedic scenarios that force the watcher into introspection and, at times, existential despair.

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News & Reviews Stage Review

Atlas Performing Arts Center Audrey Brown Steph Del Rosso Jaki Bradley Mosaic Theater Company

March 17, 2026

Chez Joey at Arena Stage by Audrey Brown

Any modern-written show that includes a full-blown Golden Age dream ballet is a winner in my book. Such was the fact in Chez Joey, currently playing at Arena Stage in Washington, which deems itself a “revisal” of the 1940 musical Pal Joey.

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News & Reviews Stage Review

Arena Stage Audrey Brown Chez Joey

December 23, 2025

The Holiday Show 2025 by The GMCW at Lincoln Theatre by Audrey Brown

Arriving to the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s Holiday Show 2025, performed at the Lincoln Theatre on U Street, I was greeted by two enormous, buzzing lines wrapped around the building. Was I in the right place? Was I mistaking the line for some highly-anticipated A-list singer-songwriter who forced fans to camp around the block in hopes of a ticket? No—this was the energy that the GMCW, now in its 44th season, drew to a cold D.C. night; and the selfsame energy was sustained throughout the performance, rife with caroling, dancing, and holiday cheer.

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News & Reviews Stage Review

Audrey Brown Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington Lincoln Theatre

November 9, 2025

Lie Low by Solas Nua at Atlas by Audrey Brown

Written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth and debuted at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022, Lie Low makes its overseas debut on a Washington, D.C. stage, supported by Solas Nua, an organization dedicated to uplifting modern Irish voices in the nation’s capital.

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News & Reviews Stage Review

Atlas Performing Arts Center Audrey Brown Megan Graves Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Cody Nickell Robert Bowen Smith Lorraine Ressegger-Slone Solas Nua

October 10, 2025

Ceilidh at M&T Bank Exchange by Audrey Brown

I’ve been greeted at the doors of Cabaret at the for-now-renamed, even on Google Maps, Kit Kat Club, formerly the August Wilson Theatre, with a shot of alcohol and ushered through a beaded curtain into what transforms the entire performance space into a Weimar-era cabaret.

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Dance Reviews Stage Review

Audrey Brown Ceilidh M&T Bank Exchange Irish Dance musical