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Night Witches, a new play following the true story of the first all-female Soviet combat pilots of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment, will be performed at The Hylton Performing Arts Cent…
Please give us your name, part you are playing in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, and a brief description of your theatrical background. My name is Leah Mazade, and I'm playing Grandm…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will officially re-open the Terrace Theater on Friday, October 6, kicking off a month-long suite of performances that highlight the theater…
Opera singers, jugglers, tango dancers, strippers, puppets, and way more gather for the Mucho KlunchoTalent Show! An epic assemblage of talent, the likes of which DC hasn't seen in centuries…
On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7 pm, the 32nd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards were held at the Historic Lincoln Theatre.   Malcolm Barnes from DMV202ARTS was there …
By Natalie Graves Tucker The theater that brought you the Helen Hayes Award"winning show Word Becomes Flesh last year is walking the talk and following up with the Word Becomes Action Fes…
The Round World is excited to present Tales from the Round World:Â The Log of the Salty Pearl, the second in their series of live radio plays with variety acts interspersed to raise money…
This piece, “Two Years After Launching Mosaic, Ari Roth Reflects” by Marilyn Millstone was originally published on HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community…
As Founding Editor Continues to Endure Debilitating Effects of ALS, Revitalized Staff Regroups to Carry Forward His Vision Metro DC (September 7, 2017)"DCMetroTheaterArts (DCMTA)"the website…
Want to see some really cool plays with women at the helm of the production? We've got great news for you! Women playwrights and women-led theater companies are ready to entertain you at the…
The exhilarating musical The Gospel at Colonus returns, Lauren Gunderson’s fiery genius Emilie makes her DC debut, and Shakespeare’s fantastical The Tempest takes the stage by st…
Out of nearly 90 shows in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, 5 captured Audience Awards, as announced Monday, July 24. And a total of 16 shows got coveted extensions because they bec…
Imagine a bird emoji tweeting. No, it's not another bizarre White House official message. The Hodgepodge Group has adapted Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. It would be wise to be have…
The production of Portraits of Grrrls felt like I walked into a high school guidance counselor's activity. This should not diminish the discussions, content, importance, and impact thi…
A man wanders onstage, a mad look above his riotous beard. Another man comes on, petrified with fear, not seeing the disturbing maniac. With lightning speed, the bearded man pounces and …
Lakeboat was thought controversial when it debuted 40 years ago, but now it seems almost quaint, verging on classy. The very first script by David Mamet, it features many of the hallmarks…
With P.I.C. : The Prison Industrial Complex, the Conciliation Project hits the cruelty of the American criminal justice system hard with just about everything they can throw at it: Scores…
What would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination had failed " but the danger wasn't over? Lancer and Lace pulls on this historical thread and weaves an interesting yet …
"Torture numbers," author Gregg Easterbrook once wrote, "and they'll confess to anything." David S. Kessler, a masterful storyteller aided by onstage musicians and projections in his new sho…
A marketing company might have taken The Coil Project's The Changeling Child and instead titled it A Midsummer Night's Dream " The Next Generation. That title better conveys the…
By Amanda Brenner There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual fam…
You probably know Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, but did you know he was also an accomplished magician? In Orson the Magnificent, consummate showman L…
A play about gun control, mental health, Robert Kennedy, and the Umpqua Community College shooting that forms a cohesive message without hitting the audience over the head with an anvi…
Like storytime for adults, David W. Grant sits in a modern version of a wingback chair in the small space at the Pursuit Wine Bar, sipping a Negroni while regaling us with true tales from hi…
Nazi Germany, South African apartheid, any city USA circa Black Lives Matter, pre-civil rights era America, Batista regime in Cuba, Cochabamba in Bolivia, Syrian uprising, 1984, even Jews in…