Researched, interviewed, and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee CATF: You first heard the song, Berta, Berta, while watching a production of August Wilson's, The Piano Lesson. You sa…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to be celebrating 20 years of bringing the best of Broadway in Virginia with the legendary and iconic Broadway…
By Beatrice Loayza "So, what are we seeing again?" my friend asks me at dinner prior to the show. Pause. Â I scrape the corners of my mind for a suitable answer, but the reality is– …
by Allison Considine Ready for your next summer adventure or weekend getaway? Each July, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, presents new plays in the…
by Emily Canavan Opinion Since the 2016 election, I am sure you have noticed the term Fascist is being dusted off and nervously applied to our current president. I have banged my head agains…
By Beatrice Loayza Directed by Patrick Pearson and written by Matthew Capodicasa, The City Of . . . is an ambitious work self-described as inspired by the metaphysical wrestlings of Jorge Lu…
by Doug Krentzlin The Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring recently announced on their website that they are currently accepting membership applications. The consortium consists of companies …
50 break-ups. 14 playwrights. 6 actors. 1 common theme. Directors Samir Bitar and Yana Landowne, longtime collaborators, engaged 14 playwrights to submit stories around a common theme: leavi…
Even in Washington, DC, a town unofficially known as the choral capital of the United States, Christopher Bell stands out as a milestone hire for The Washington Chorus (TWC). Bell, who just …
by Dara Gold Indulge in the vices of the Wild West and find out that these painted ladies are far more than meet the eye! Welcome to the tale of the unsung and unexpected lives of the women …
By Kylie Miller The Heritage Players began their run of James and the Giant Peach this weekend. Based on the book written by Roald Dahl, with lyrics and music by Justin Paul and script by Ti…
By Rachel Kurzius Wendi Winters was one of five staff members murdered while working at the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28. But in addition to her thrice-weekly columns as a staff write…
Avant Bard today announces  its “Welcome Tempest-Tossed Campaign”: For the final weekends of its production of The Tempest, Avant Bard commits to donating one-half of all full…
Have you heard? Bethesda Little Theatre (BLT) is putting on A Swellegant, Elegant Party June 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and July 1 at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center " and it's one you w…
After their highly successful partnership in 2017 on Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher, Wolf Trap Opera and Halcyon reunite to present Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brec…
By Andy Arnold Ovations Theatre's Senior Company ended the 2017-2018 season with Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party playing June 15 " 17. And what a party it was thanks to Darnell Patrick Morr…
By Andy Arnold Amanda Spellman, a DC-area theater veteran, is sensational as pregnant wife Beth Wells in The Quickening, now playing its world premiere at Fells Point Corner Theatre. Beth ha…
While hitchhiking across Europe by herself at 18, Anne B. Thomas fell asleep in the back of a car, and when she woke she was lying by the side of the road. She tried to stand up but found sh…
After launching seven months ago, arts organization Indicoe is hosting its first event: an Artist Mix N' Mingle at Woolly Mammoth Theatre on June 16th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The event is held…
By Ellie Milewski Today, theater has grown into an extravagant event. It's normal to spend hundreds of dollars on tickets, go to a fancy Broadway Theater, and wait after the show by the stag…
Review submitted by Natalia Corvoisier of Clarksburg High School. “A 16 Bar Cut: The History of American Musical Theatre” is by Patrick John Moran, a student of University of …
Review submitted by Kevin McNerney of Bishop Ireton High School. The Old Testament story of Joseph, featuring: starving Frenchmen, an Egyptian Elvis, and a biblical ho-down. All with no spok…
Washington, DC-based Playwright Audrey Cefaly is the winner of this year's Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Drama for her play The Gulf which had its world premiere at Arlingto…
Charm City Ballet presents its original full-length ballet, The Little Mermaid, to be performed at The Gordon Center for Performing Arts, at 3506 Gwynbrook Ave in Owings Mills, for three sho…
The Kennedy Center Announces a #HAM4HAM Hamilton ticket lottery in Washington, DC. 40 tickets will be sold for $10 each to every performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House (June 12-Septem…