Baltimore's Everyman Theatre has announced a 2012-2013 season which will close down its 1727 North Charles Street venue with the memory of war, and then inaugurate its tenure at its new down…
Forum Theatre's 2012-2013 season will consist of four plays so fresh that none of them were performed before 2010 and the world premiere which will open the season " Kara Lee Corthron's Holl…
Occasionally the great theater critics from the major New York cultural organs " the Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal " will come to Washington to review important productions …
Adventure Theatre, the Glen Echo-based children's theater company is getting used to big announcements. It has been nominated for 12 Helen Hayes Awards this year; has developed such ne…
The April 19 production of the Shakespeare Theatre's Strange Interlude at Harman Hall will begin with the usual injunctions: turn off your cell phone, your Blackberry, your I-phone, your bee…
Imagination Stage has seized on the idea of a ball for the 4-12 set to be held in its Bethesda location. Titled “Just Imagine…The Inaugural Children's Ball”, the event takes…
We call it love, but deep down inside we know it's something darker and more complicated. We love our pets, we love our comfortable lives, and we may love our children, but with our life par…
- Eugene O’Neill’s first play, produced only once before in 1912, before it disappeared for nearly a hundred years, had its second staging at Arena last month. Was that a good id…
Holdridge, Vreeke, Goldman and Serotsky scheduled to direct; Lawton play to have its world premiere Two acclaimed dramas from Israel will highlight Theater J's 2012-2013 season. The company …
They lie who say that Ah, Wilderness! was Eugene O'Neill's only comedy. Strange Interlude is funnier and more savagely incisive. Where Ah, Wilderness! was a sepia-tinted journey to O'Neill's…
On Saturday, March 31st, three playwrights received awards and checks totaling $40,000 at the 36th Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in t…
Monologist Mike Daisey, who has admitted that his play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs contained significant inaccuracies, apologized to Woolly Mammoth audiences at the theater last n…
Brothers of the Dust, a Darren Canady drama, set in 1958, about an African-American man who runs a hardscrabble farm in Arkansas, has won the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award as best new play by an…
Quest Visual Theatre, the Maryland-based company which specializes in bringing unusual forms of theatrical expression to families, will be presenting QuestFest 2012 to Washington-area audien…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which staged a production of Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs last March and has rescheduled it for this summer, yesterday issued a…
Spelling is a mere convention which school systems use to bludgeon us into compliance. The spelling bee is a tribal rite, and unfair, at that, since American English is spelled differently t…
At 1pm today, WAMU 88.5 aired the results of This American Life’s investigation after airing ‘Mike Daisey goes to the Apple factory’ last January. Here’s what they un…
Like many of you, I looked forward to the work that Molotov Theatre Group " Washington's Grand Guignol theater " would be doing on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar because of the exquisite sensit…
The Actors’ Center, a 30-year-old non-profit membership organization, today announced that it will stage auditions exclusively for Actor's Center members on April 9 and 10, between 10 …
Ford's Theatre will focus on classic stories during its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last night, but will also feature Fly, a Lincoln Legacy Project production about the Tuskegee …
Having nearly completed a season devoted to inquiries about the expiration of civilization, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has elected to invest its 2012-2013 season with new plays and the i…
The Kennedy Center today announced an ambitious sixteen-production schedule which will feature the return of Ireland's Druid Theatre, a festival of new Nordic plays, and six touring producti…
Donizetti. Mozart. Humperdinck. Puccini. Bellini. And Kern. The Washington National Opera's 2012 " 2013 season will certainly give due reverence to the great composers of the eighteenth and …
It seems counterintuitive, given how grave a barrier "beyond a reasonable doubt" sounds, but nineteen out of twenty criminal jury trials end in conviction. Sometimes, of course, the facts ar…
What's my name? What's my name, sucker? Â In Houston, forty-five years ago last month, Muhammad Ali was carving up hapless, helpless Ernie Terrell, a heavyweight pretender who had insisted…