The highly successful reworking of Pride & Prejudice, currently running at the Round House Theatre, respects Jane Austen's rich language and characters while keeping the audience engaged and entertained. more ›

Amadeus is an almost perfect illustration of what makes a good film and what makes a good play. more ›

I can't help thinking that Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray would have little interest in the character of the same name embodied by Roderick Hill in Round House's season opener, the world premiere of a new production of . Sure, this Gray's a slashing murderer, a sexual deviant and a good-looking-enough-guy (in a CW teen series kind of way). But yet, he still manages to be kind of boring. more ›

isn't the first ambitious attempt to adapt Tolstoy's epic novel to the stage. It's also not in the running to be the definitive version. more ›

, and in its dramatization of the pair's shared insecurities, it succeeded in making both artists seem at once more fallible and more gifted. more ›

MONDAY At Chapters, they’re mad for mystery writers on Mondays in March, and for alliteration at all other times. Today, they have a fine guest: Laura Lippman, who’ll be reading from her latest, What the Dead Know. 445 11th Street, NW, 1 p.m. TUESDAY Tom Bissell and his father, an ex-Marine who served in the Vietnam War, travel back to Vietnam on a journey that retraces both national and personal history. He’ll be in town... more ›

Ah, the ambiguous ending. For some, it’s infuriating; for others, it can be part of the fun of going to the theatre. more ›

DCist apologizes for this month's theater preview being a bit behind schedule (its resident critic keeps ending up travelling out of state), but there's no reason to fret, as there's plenty of interesting options playing at area venues during November. more ›

Boy meets courtesan. Families disapprove. Tuberculosis gets in the way. more ›