600 stories by "David Siegel"
''Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" asked T.S. Eliot's protagonist in the confessional modernist masterwork "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Through a world-premier devised performance,…
With the world premiere of DC playwright David Kessler's fictional memory play, Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance, Nu Sass & Uncle Funsy present an enlightening window into …
"It is what I am supposed to do in my life," The Actual Dance playwright Samuel A. Simon told me in a phone interview. He was speaking about the play he developed and has performed that bega…
There are so many intersections in life"so much for creative artists to put before audiences as a way to initiate larger conversations about issues that can divide or bring together. In a de…
With construction ongoing but substantially completed, The Kennedy Center recently threw open the doors on May 29, 2019 to its new addition, The REACH. It was a glorious day to take in the s…
The Workhouse Arts Center has someone special working closely with its upcoming production of that fan favorite, Little Shop of Horrors"Emmy Award-winning puppet fabricator and performer Bil…
Many of us started our journey into theater as high school students. There was just something about the stage that beckoned us. And that continues for today's high school students. For 20 ye…
Last Out is a raw emotional journey with no illusions as its core value. It is an intense confessional about military service and the effects on family, told from multiple perspectives. It i…
Synetic Theater's Richard iii is a potent conspiratorial theatrical experience for an anxious age such as ours. It is the ultimate in theatrical paranoia, set in a time out of joint. It's as…
The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced more than $80 Million in arts funding awarded across the United States. This is the second round of NEA grant announcements for this ye…
Dancing and singing over the wireless airways"how might it have happened? What might have been a dry history lesson is given delightfully appealing musical charm in Creative Cauldron's world…
Ready for teasing mockery and romantic conflict that crosses economic classes and genders with an added dash of some re-imagined blurred lines? Then step up to the wit and words of William S…
Ally Theatre Company will receive the 2019 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company at the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards. At its core mission, Ally Theatre Company is com…
In 2018 Monumental Theatre Company was the recipient of the prestigious theatreWashington John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. The Aniello Award aims to give public r…
For those wanting to be absorbed into a highly recommended, fictionalized account of events surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords and the inconceivable peace between Israelis and Palestinians th…
Dance and theater performances can be much more than sitting in a seat and watching. BodyWise Dance and its cadre of dedicated, diverse artist educators have been touring throughout the DMV …
Staging an epic that involves a bloody chain of events in "a deluge of violence," as the Shakespeare Theatre Company describes The Oresteia, requires not just the skills and talents of the a…
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature? If you are the least bit curious and open to a quie…
Time may be running out for the denizens of Berlin's swanky Weimar era Grand Hotel who wonder if life has passed them by. But Signature Theatre's roaring, non-stop rendering of the musical G…
Ah, Shakespeare's As You Like It"the ultimate romantic comedy about people trying to find their way to love in a bewildering world; a world that seems to have no rules, or rules that are mad…
On a recent warm Monday evening, Helen Hayes Award recipient Iyona Blake announced her next musical venture, an EP (extended play) of some of her favorite songs. The album will be called "Ti…
In the Hub Theatre's first full production under Artistic Director Matt Bassett, the company will be producing The Burn by playwright Philip Dawkins. The Burn will be the first Hub productio…
Full of high-spirited playfulness, flights of adorable fancy and some verbal gymnastics that children and adults can savor, Creative Cauldron's Alice in Wonderland is family entertainment th…
In honor of World Puppetry Day celebrated on March 21st, it was time to learn more about the puppetry used in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Kate Hamill's adaptation of Vanity…
"Watch me close, watch me now!" As I watched Avant Bard's production of Topdog/Underdog, I knew that it is a production for the ages. Under the visceral, athletic direction of DeMone Seraphi…