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"I see the head of Voltaire" Alice says in Kira Obolensky's Lobster Alice, looking at a painting by Salvador Dalà in a certain way. Things are seldom what they seem in the famous surreali…
Sit in on the “Meet and Greet” at the NEW 42nd Street Studios as director/choreographer Susan Stroman, the designers and choreographers talk through their concepts for Little Dan…
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pair…
DCTS has partnered with the new Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pairs of tick…
People change, especially in stories. Challenging circumstances shape characters, crystalizing them into emboldened heroes. In Franz Kafka's famous short story Metamorphosis, however, hard t…
On Monday night, September 8th, Bay Theatre’s reading of the comedy Four Weddings and an Elvis finished with a surprise twist not in the Nancy Frick script. As the reading, held at the…
Just released – Synetic Theater has begun offering free fitness videos on their YouTube channel – inspired by their popular fitness classes. Synetic Fitness is an exercise class …
The 2014-15 season looks like it will be the busiest in our nine years of covering the theatrical scene. With today’s addition of Peter’s Alley’s three productions, the…
Claybourne Elder, Paul Scanlon and other members of the cast of Signature Theatre’s Sunday in the Park with George accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Landless Theatre’s p…
Six year old theatre critic Iain Armitage is getting plenty of attention on YouTube. His beat is covering DC and Broadway shows. Five months ago, Iain saw Hairspray at Signature, his parents…
Penn Quarter is D.C.'s neighborhood for entertainment. From the Verizon Center to the National Portrait Gallery, the fluid parameters of Penn Quarter house a spectrum of art, culture and per…
“D&D is not therapy.” That's what Tilly, a charismatic tomboy played by Rebecca Hausman, tells her older sister Agnes in the hilarious and fluid Rorschach production of She K…
Signature Theatre begins its 25th anniversary season with the Pulitzer Prize winning Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Matthew Gardiner. Now in…
Just announced – Side Show, seen here at the Kennedy Center last June, will indeed be going to Broadway, moving into the St. James Theatre, now home to Bullets over Broadway. This ends…
With the increasing trend for theatre companies to produce nearly year round, it has become tricky to to determine when the official Washington DC area season closes and the next one opens. …
How’s it going, Capital Fringe fans? As we get ready for this final Fringe weekend (Capital Fringe closes Sunday, July 27) we thought we’d check in with all the Fringe-goers. We …
American Century Theater, which, in the past twenty years has produced more than 100 shows, will close its doors in 2015 at the end of what will become their final season. In making the anno…
Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond know their way around a musical. Broadway performers like Patina Miller, Heidi Blickenstaff and Christopher Siebber know that and lined up to sing on th…
Elaine Stritch, a Broadway star of incomparable depth and versatility, died yesterday in her Birmingham, Michigan home at the age of eighty-nine. She debuted on Broadway in 1946 with Loco, a…
With 161 performances and events this year, this year’s Capital Fringe Festival is the biggest yet to be produced and the most adventurous. Added to the roster of theatrical performanc…
We’re noting a curious shrinkage of theatre coverage, even while the number of plays produced in our area and around the country and audience attendance continues to rise. Variety, whi…
From Arena Stage — A celebration of Jerry Manning’s life will take place at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Monday June 23 at 6:00pm. The gathering, …
2014 CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL July 10 " 27, 2013 Follow our coverage . Click on the images
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June 18, 2014 –Working in theatre pays – but not much. And surely among the least paid jobs, below even that of actors, is the person who writes about theatre. With assignmen…
From Scena Theater comes this video preview of the highly anticipated performance by one of Washington’s favorite actors Nancy Robinette in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Comme…
