This coming season, Everyman Theatre will inaugurate The Upstairs Theatre, its new 210-seat performance space, with a three-play new play festival, against a backdrop of five classic plays o…
We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden"Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat's wife who …
The new season scheduled for the Washington's National Theatre seems more promising, at this point, than the Washington Nationals season. The National Theatre will present seven musicals and…
The Contemporary American Theater Festival's 29th season will feature six new plays " four of them world premieres " which focus on the great cultural changes running through our society. If…
Constellation Theatre Company, which has established a reputation for performing the sublime epics of our culture, will, in its 13th season, aspire to capture the ridiculous " and a little b…
Synetic Theater will produce " and reimagine " the classics for its 2019-2020 season, reviving two of its most notable productions " The Tempest and The Snow Queen " and adding a classic fro…
A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre's 2019-2020 seaso…
In their next season, 1st Stage's eclectic, collaborative twelfth season will take on air guitar wizards, race in the squared circle, aging in (a bad) place, brain surgery and the Attorney G…
Next season at NextStop Theatre Company will feature a whole lotta musicals, as well as some farce, an adaptation of a literary classic, and Katori Hall's celebrated fiction about Martin Lut…
On the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington's outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced a…
We don't know which of this year's Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the John A…
Some familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature's 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen So…
The Kennedy Center's 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & …
The In Series, a Washington pocket opera company known for its innovative approach to the classics, will totally rework some of our best-known stories in 2019-2020, deconstructing, decontext…
Woolly Mammoth's 40th year marks the inaugural first season selected by its second Artistic Director, Marìa Manuela Goyanes, and for this year's slate she has selected shows with signific…
Studio Theatre's 2019-2020 season will include an appetizer and a main course. The appetizer is a 6-production summer season which the company calls its Showroom; it consists of two full-len…
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has decided to shoot for the moon in its 2019-2020 season. In addition to doing Measure for Measure, Hamlet and Much Ado About Noting, the company will be …
There will be plenty of the familiar in the Kennedy Center's 17-production mainstage season " classics like Cats, Bye Bye Birdie, Jesus Christ Superstar as well as musicals for which Washing…
"Stay," the dying beloved tells her lover, "where we were so long alone together. My shade will comfort you." But of course he does not, and instead moves to a single room in a place where t…
In Shakespeare's time, Christians were forbidden to lend money at interest (see Merchant of Venice) and so the Western world, intellectually vibrant though it was, was mostly economically st…
Mosaic Theater will dedicate its fifth season to the stories of men and women who come to political awareness, and the consequences of that awareness. The company's eight-production 2019-202…
So, in Native Son, Bigger Thomas (Clayton Pelham, Jr.), a man with no options, lives in a one-room apartment on the South Side of 1940 Chicago with his mother (Lolita Marie) and his brother …
Michael Bobbitt, a director, choreographer and playwright who has served as Adventure Theatre MTC's Artistic Director for nearly twelve years, will leave the company in July to become Artist…
Theater J, its old stage at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center completely refurbished, will offer a slate of six new(or new-ish) stories about older (or ancient) events for its 2019-20…
Most of us are uncompromising in our youth, and, buffeted by the winds of time and experience, grow smooth and mellow in our old age. In that sense, John Quincy Adams lived his life backward…