While John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath have historically been on high school reading lists for decades, one of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner's more ambitious wo…
The 2018 Charm City Fringe Festival returns to the Bromo Arts District with 23 productions and more than 80 performances taking place between November 1 and November 11. Baltimore talent for…
Lee Wilkof looks back at the 1982 production and the upcoming special revival at Washington, D.C.,’s Kennedy Center.
Reading the description of Anna Ziegler's thought-provoking play, Actually, it's easy to think the story was ripped right from today's headlines. After all, the plot follows two freshmen at …
The rolling world premiere of Blight, a new play by playwright and DC Theatre Scene writer John Bavoso, is being produced by Pinky Swear Productions at the Anacostia Playhouse. "Silvia is…
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will has been probably adapted into more styles, settings than any of the Bard's plays. Whether it's Play On, a Broadway jukebox musical f…
With Halloween only weeks away, it seems fitting that the National Theatre will debut the world premiere musical Beetlejuice, based on Tim Burton's wildly fun, demented 1988 movie, which hel…
When Hamilton made the transition to London, some naysayers thought that the musical wouldn't play as well on the other side of the pond because of its U.S.-centric political story and its c…
As Edwin Lee Gibson prepares for opening night September 6th of Arena Stage's production of Turn Me Loose, a look into the life of comedian Dick Gregory, his dressing room is full of photos …
One of DC theatergoers' favorite times of year is back, as theatreWashington presents the popular Theatre Week, Sept. 12 through Oct. 7, with 26 productions being staged throughout the regio…
Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel scored a huge hit in 1989 with the release of her debut novel, which became a New York Times best seller, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate),…
In celebration of the 17th annual Page-to-Stage Festival, more than 60 theater companies"both new and established"will ascend to The Kennedy Center this coming weekend (Sept. 1-3) to offer a…
Natascia Diaz has wowed DC audiences for a decade, but when Signature Theatre offered her the lead role of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, she hesitated. The popular actress has e…
"This is a good time for this piece to be in this city,”director Kurt Boehm says of The Bridges of Madison County, now onstage at Keegan Theatre. No matter what side of the political a…
NextStop Theatre is celebrating its 30th year, a history that took root as the Elden Street Players in 1988, when the newly-formed community theatre took over a Herndon-based warehouse an…
N'Jameh Camara is playing Nettie in The Color Purple, now concluding its national tour at The Kennedy Center. "Nettie is the younger sister of Celie and looks at her environment and wonde…
"We either repeat mistakes or don't update our own sense on what love is for," Kathleen Akerley, artistic director at Longacre Lea, said in our recent interview about her upcoming debut p…
The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company, Holly Bass’ latest work, conceptualizes one of the most urgent ideas of our time: what it means to be free and how we can all move towards…
Musicals based on movies are all the rage these days with titles like Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Bronx Tale and King Kong dominating Broadway marquees and the ads in Times Square. Arena Stage…
Last January, Synetic Theater’s performance space (1800 S. Bell Street in Arlington) experienced somewhat of a theatrical disaster when a sprinkler system situated above the theater, p…
Ephraim Sykes can't seem to leave the '60s. He played Otis Williams in the Broadway show Motown the Musical, was a critical darling as Seaweed in NBC's Hairspray Live, and now can be seen in…
When two-time Helen Hayes winner Rick Hammerly woke up recently, a "morning" after taking the stage as fiercely funny drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre's The Legend o…
Director Nick Olcott was intrigued when he learned that playwright Patrick Flynn had a different take on the Peter Pan stories, a new play written from Tinker Bell's point of view. Michae…
The Tony-winning director explains the special place D.C.’s Kennedy Center holds in his heart.
Thanks to a 14-year run on Broadway and an even longer 19-year run in London's West End"which continues to this day"Mamma Mia! is one of the most beloved jukebox musicals ever. It's no wonde…