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By Jen Lofquist Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is almost a master class in restrained theatre. His words, like the Nordic landscape, are stark and carved. Ibsen will tolerate no over-acti…
Washington, DC:Â The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented six awards Monday night at Signature Theatre, October 8. The award was presented to actors Will Gar…
By Andy Arnold You know you'll have a bad day at work when the guests at the Hangtown Asylum for Extremely Tense People lock up the staff and take over the business. As it happens, the asylu…
Adventure Theatre MTCÂ (ATMTC)Â announces its grand reopening on October 15th in Glen Echo Park after seven months of renovations due to an electrical fire. Executives from Adventure The…
An Alfred Hitchcock-style mystery play unfolds at the Knights of Columbus performance on Friday, October 5, 2018, at 7 p.m. in the St. Leo the Great School Gym. The play is the second origin…
By Brandon Block We're in a long, dark, monastic chamber. A white marble bust of Putin sits against dark red drop-banners that are just barely not swastikas, instead featuring a black outlin…
By Cybele Pomeroy "My name is Luther and I'm going to sing every song I know. Come on, y'all, let's have a party." — Tamba Giles as Luther Vandross in Luther. It's a small, squatty bri…
After a dramatic auditioning process that lasted the entirety of their 40th season, Washington Bach Consort has selected their new Artistic Director. The premiere Baroque chorus and orchestr…
The final days of summer are here. And you know what that means? It's time to score some awesome deals during Theatre Week. For the third year, we're bringing you exclusive prices to some of…
The Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Page to Stage Festival offers theatergoers the chance to view and give feedback on works of theater. The free performances feature work by over 60 loca…
The Washington, DC-area premiere of Athol Fugard's most recent play The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek opens this weekend at MetroStage and will run through September 30. First preview on T…
Theater Alliance launches Season 16 with the Word Becomes Action Festival: Flipping the Script. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural festival, this second annual festival e…
Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, died last night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 91 years ol…
Rep Stage is pleased to announce that the third annual conference dedicated to women working in the theatre will be held in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community…
WASHINGTON, DC " August 14 " theatreWashington today announced plans for Theatre Week 2018, a three-week celebration that will offer $15 and $35 tickets to over 20 productions, a fr…
By Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about Alexander Hamilton, "the forgotten founding father," has become a turning poi…
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod's Roméo e…
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière newly adapted for now, plus…
By Bill Kamberger King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare's play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular works; indeed, it hasn't been performed in B…
From The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts: The Theatre Lab has lost a wonderful friend and an integral member of our family. We mourn the passing of George Grant, who over the past te…
By Leandra Lynn Step right up! Feast your eyes on PWLT's current production, Barnum! The fun started even before I walked into the Hylton Performing Arts Center, with clowns waving at me fro…
By Bill Kamberger On September 30, 1975, twenty years to the day after the car crash that took the life of movie legend James Dean, six of his female fans gather at a convenience store in a …
by Jill Kyle-Keith Two unconventional beauties take us on a wild ride through sex, politics, and the politics of sex. As the title implies, Chlamydia dell'Arte is a sort-of burlesque, with a…
By Becca Kurtz Raina Greifer's new play, Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It, produced by Purple Crayon Productions, is a tale of abandonment, friendship, and the teenage mind. It's fitting …
By Hannah Sternberg Riot Brrrain is a punk-fueled, nonlinear tour through the life of Teddy as they revisit their past relationships after being diagnosed with neurosyphilis. Teddy is bisexu…
