Avant Bard Theatre, formerly known as WSC Avant Bard (and before that, as Washington Shakespeare Company), will mark its 30th anniversary with a new name, and a three-play season, Artistic D…
Louis Altarescu and Alan Friedman, well known volunteer ushers and theater enthusiasts until Friedman's untimely death last month, have been selected to receive the 2019 Gary Maker Audience …
If baseball represents the joy of sport " its season concluding with popped champagne corks and ticker tape parades for the winners and the promise of next year for the losers " then boxing …
Henry IV, Part 1 is the best of the Shakespearean histories, because it is a redemption story " not of Prince Hal (Avery Whitted), who rose from his Eastcheap debauchery to become England's …
The titular doubt in John Patrick Shanley's classic play, now being given a rigorous yet nuanced treatment at Studio Theatre, is not about whether the intense, charismatic Father Brendan Fly…
So you're an actor who has just blown in from Oregon and you'd like to show your stuff to a D.C. casting director. Or you're a WATCH-award winning community theatre actor who wants to step u…
It is part poem, part prayer service, and part therapy session, but the first thing that will strike you about From Divorce to Restoration is its name. Restoration? Really? Aside from death,…
"Only connect," wrote the novelist E.M. Forster, "Live in fragments no longer." Ah, but that's easier said than done, E.M., particularly in the windblown wilds of the Western U.S., the so-ca…
Simon Godwin is poised to take the reins of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, but the presence of Michael Kahn hangs over it like a mist. If you have any question, you should see the free-for…
Imagine that you are a soldier " an intelligence analyst " deployed to the Caribbean Command in Key West, Florida. Your daily tasks involve reading reports and commenting on them in air-cond…
Although he wrote until his death in 1937, the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was resolutely of the 19th century. His lurid prose, which frequently invoked evil in its most hideous forms, pres…
Rob Rafferty's been waiting for what we have all been waiting for " which is to say, for the fate which awaits us all. Poor Rob has been diagnosed with Brain Crabs, and so is reminded that h…
Let's get this out of the way first. Two Gentlemen of Verona is not Shakespeare's worst play. Not by a long shot; not in a universe which has Timon of Athens and Coriolanus and Two Noble Kin…
Surfacing: An Inventory of Helplessness is less a story than a meditation on a condition. And the condition is grim. A (Yvonne Paretsky) seeks refuge in Vienna. The law is that if she can es…
In 2010, the Contemporary American Theater Festival staged something called The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show. It was the first musical they ever did. They've never done one since. The pla…
In Hillel Mitelpunkt's The Accident, a self-involved man, somewhat drunk, hits and kills a Chinese immigrant at about eighty miles per hour. Then, with his passenger, an equally self-involve…
Gaseous and unpredictable, witty and sentimental, Support Group for Men is ninety minutes traffic of our stage which seems longer, an earnest foray into secrets and feelings masked as a come…
The great opera contralto Marian Anderson (Angela Wildflower), has been denied accommodations at the Nassau Inn because of her race. So instead she stays at the home of one of her enthusiast…
"If there's one thing reality can't tolerate," says Dr. Phillip Cotton (Reed Birney), "it's competition." But you knew that already, didn't you, Mr. or Ms. Avid Theatergoer, you fiction-love…
4615 Theatre Company will launch its third season with two plays in rep by distinguished British playwrights, and will finish with two world premieres by local writers. A woman has a passion…
GALA Hispanic Theatre's 2019-2020 season will feature a beloved classic from the Golden Age of Spanish theater leading into two plays by contemporary writers, interspersed with dance, theate…
Childhood, magic, myths and legends, and Patsy Cline " who is arguably all of those " will make up the docket for Creative Cauldron's 2019-2020 season. Creative Cauldron will open the season…
Theater Alliance's first season under the helm of Producing Artistic Director Raymond O. Caldwell will take a hard look at the experience of being Black in America in its three-play 2019…
Bethesda-based Quotidian Theatre will be producing plays from two writers familiar to its audiences " Horton Foote and Connor McPherson " and one from Henrik Ibsen which shocked audiences wh…
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV's only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production…