The Huffington Post announced Saturday that the Shakespeare Theatre has changed the names of Much Ado About Nothing's Juan Huevos and Jose Frijoles, two of the buffoons featured in Dogberry'…
This week’s MetroConnection is all about health and wellness – an ironic choice as host Rebecca Sheir tells us she’s suffering from a raging head cold. Justin Purvis (c…
The miracle is not Christmas, but that we come to it at all. For eleven months, we snap and tear at each other like ravening dogs, foot soldiers in the war of all against all, but on Christm…
It’s difficult to offer you a focused picture of Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre. It manages to tell a dark story with humor …
Madame Tussauds London has transported their intricately fashioned wax sculpture of William Shakespeare to the lobby of the Sidney Harman Hall, where he appears, outside the main floor gift …
Equivocation is a six-course meal of a play, not turkey and stuffing but some rarer and darker bird, with sides of squashed hopes, whipped religious feelings and humiliation pie " and yet, s…
Theatre lovers haven’t been left out of the cyber super sales weekend. On Monday, November 28th, for one day only, Signature Theatre is offering 50% off all tickets to their 2011/12 se…
Audiences tuning in for tonight’s scheduled GOP debate will see Wolf Blitzer introduce the candidates, and then Mauricio Pérez, one of four Frankie Valli’s from the national tou…
Capital Fringe Festival’s Fall Fringe, originally scheduled to close Sudayn, Nov 20th, has extended the two most popular productions in the original 11 show lineup. Good Girls Don't…
DC’s Puppet Underground has teamed up with Occupy DC for a full afternoon of puppetry, poetry and music titled Occupy Kabaret Street, a roving street performance. The event starts a…
Spooky Action Theater, a small company which has faced misfortune in the past, has become the recipient of a bequest valued at $1.6 million, Spooky Action’s Artistic Director Richar…
Local theatres participate in Razoo’s first area 24 hour giving campaign If your inbox has been buzzing today like a door bell on Hallowe’en with theatres asking for small bits o…
Shakespeare Theatre Company turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, they’re turning the Lansburgh into a Broadway concert hall for The Bard’s Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, for …
In 1974, A.R.Gurney’s Children was produced by Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was Gurney’s first full length play and it arrived on our shores following a succ…
Frank Langella’s performance is spell-weaving In late 1963, Terrence Rattigan’s play Man and Boy opened on Broadway with a cast headed by film star Charles Boyer, where it limped…
What Constellation Theatre Company giveth, Center Stage taketh away. Comedies of manners and farce usually send this critic screaming into the night and searching for a bar that serves cockt…
In the end, Steve Jobs failed to "think different," in the deepest way In his brilliant monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, seen here at Woolly Mammoth last March, Mike Daise…
Rick Hammerly talks about how directing Dead Man Walking has changed him as an artist On Wednesday night, Sept 21st, as supporters of Troy Davis held a vigil outside the Georgia prison where…
A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday, Sept 25th, from 7 to 10pm beginning at the Dupont Circle fountain and walking to the 2600 block of 11th Street NW, Washington, DC. Actors Jason McCoo…
The Kennedy Center celebrates turning 40 with MyTix, a generous ticket discount program This month, forty people will win a pair of tickets to Les Misérables, and others will be able to tak…
Baltimore has many advantages over its sister city to the South"better food, nicer people, filmmaker John Waters, and the citizenry got to see Alice Childress' funny, furious come-to-Jesus-t…
“Dear Friends”, 1409′s Facebook entry began this morning, and with that, Elsayed Mansour and Jeff DeMontier went on to announce that their restaurant, 1409 Playbill Cafe, t…
In 2001, twelve days after the 9/11 attacks, Anne Nelson, a teacher of journalism at Columbia, Â performed an act of kindness for a NYC fire captain. He had lost eight men in the collapse …
Arena Stage celebrates with a three day ticket sale Arena Stage has announced that, as of September 1st, more than 100,000 audience members have seen its award winning production of Oklahoma…
In the days of my youth I, like many of you, took the Peter Pan Pledge: "I won't grow up, I won't grow up/Never gonna go to school…" Regrettably, I neglected to take the Peter Pan Suppleme…