(Joan Marcus)The best in Washington theater starts with a hands-down top six:“A Little Night Music”The most satisfying musical of the year. “King Charles III”With a nod to Ethan McSweeny’s current airport-set “Twelfth Night,” proof that big Shakespeare still lives in Harman Hall. The back-channel politics and mod-classical language mash-up were acted with guile and crackle in David Muse’s epic-scaled Shakespeare Theatre Company production. “Fun Home,” “Mean Girls”It’s just the case: Washington theater is buzzier when the National Theatre is on top of its game. In the ultra-glossy, perfectly cast “Mean Girls” pre-Broadway tryout this fall, Tina Fey cleverly updated (and in key instances, repeated) the laughs from her adored 2004 movie.

Source: Washington Post December 08, 2017 14:05 UTC