Unlike most of us lazy mortals, Christopher sees everything. And in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, now playing at the Kennedy Center, we see the world through his unique …
"He's very good at what he does." Despite 100 minutes of blistering and savagely funny assaults on the mogul-turned-pitchman-turned-megalomaniac, monologist Mike Daisey still pays Donald Tru…
As we hurl toward an unpredictable and increasingly surreal election in November, Donald Trump's persona is hard to avoid. Endlessly looped on news broadcasts and grabbing headlines each…
Love theater, but have a limited attention span when the summer weather is calling? You might want to swing by the ninth annual CulturalDC Source Festival running through July 3rd. Â This…
Americans increasingly seem to have a love-hate relationship with "stuff". Visitors from abroad find themselves amazed at the vast array of artisanal cheese available at any grocery store. O…
The mark of master storytellers is that they can make a given narrative hold resonance and power beyond the narrow context of the original time and place. By this standard, much art wi…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a more than fitting venue for Letters to Jack, the latest chapter in renowned performance artist, filmmaker, and composer Laurie Ande…
On Monday night, we learned that Stephen Gregory Smith and Matt Conner and the cast of The Turn of the Screw received Helen Hayes director’s nominations for the Creative Ca…
Palestinian-Israeli actor Gassan Abbas carries I Shall Note Hate, here for a limited engagement at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, alone on  his shoulders. The one-man play, told in …
We tend to think of genius as fully formed. We see the end results of a truly sublime or original masterpiece " be it a play, a painting, or a theorem " and chalk it up to divine insp…
"Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?" It's a lament many of us find ourselves asking on dark nights of the soul when we are forced to dwell on our mortality. Few of us pose the question as…
Steven A. Butler’s Chocolate Covered Ants offers audiences unique insight into the minds of African American men in the age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and the subsequent news stories o…
DC theater veterans Kerri Rambow and Fiona Blackshaw headline George is Dead, written by comedic icon Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait, The Birdcage). The one-hour play, opening December 3rd, wil…
Bill Largess is a founding member and Artistic Director at Washington Stage Guild. A graduate of Catholic University, he has been extensively involved as an actor and director in the region …
"You have to consider that top singers and celebrities have a lot of impact on our lives. Just look at someone like Michael Jackson and how the music of artists becomes the soundtrack of you…
"It's not where you start " it's where you finish." So goes the opening number to Just Between Us: a piano, a mic, and a memory, a delightful one-woman cabaret performance featuring DC theat…
Nancy Reagan famously referred to her husband's lengthy bout with Alzheimer's disease at "the long goodbye" " a prolonged and painful process of shedding the various levels of one's memories…
For many of us, museums can be a relatively rare pleasure " even if we live in a cultural hub like Washington. They are an escape from reality and mundanity " a chance to reflect deeply on a…
"The great thing about kids is that they will tell you in real time how your show is when they see it during previews," said David Kilpatrick, manager of the John F. Kennedy Center's Theater…
"It picks you rather than you picking it." That is how Claire Schoonover describes acting. DC theater lovers are certainly finding Schoonover and her craft a perfect fit. The British …
What if you could have a heart-to-heart with yourself thirty earlier younger? Thirty years older? What if you could finally ask the younger you just what the hell you were thinking on the ve…
What if Adolph Hitler had been a better artist?  It's one of history's great riddles. Perhaps if the Führer had shown more promise in his original career choice as a painter, the …
It's easy to grow jaded about the magic of Washington after a few years on a lease. Over time, lofty ideals and Sorkin-esque monologues have a way of being superseded by rent worries and Met…
"You should use this in your act." There are few phrases more dreaded by comedians, according to Adam Ruben. A molecular biologist by day, Ruben has been moonlighting as a comedian and story…
"Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play." Everyone is also invited " strongly invited " to participate at AWoL Productions' Ten Principles )'(, an enthusiastic glimpse into…