2024 a memorable year in local theater
For D.C. theater, it’s been a year of engaging premiers, reprises, and some particularly strong performances. Here are a few of the standouts.
At Round House Theatre, 2024 kicked off with “Next to Normal,” Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s masterful alt-rock musical. Strikingly helmed by out director Alan Paul, the production featured a marvelous Tracy Lynn Olivera as Diana Goodman, a homemaker struggling with mental illness.
Despite years of scary manic episodes, med adjustments, and endless flat days filled with robotically performed household chores and married life, she maintains a wry sense of humor peppered with sarcastic asides.
At Studio Theatre in spring, nonbinary playwright Bryna Turner’s “At the Wedding” made a regional debut with a production directed by Tom Story.
