A new theater-and-tech company combining live performance, experimental music, and interactive games and narratives enhanced with the latest in cutting-edge technology, Technodramatists, und…
Now that National Symphony Orchestra music director Gianandrea Noseda has nearly completed two full seasons " and has signed on to stay through 2025 " a clearer picture of the possibilities …
Opening the 40th anniversary season of Theater Breaking Through Barriers is the world premiere of Public Servant by Bekah Brunstetter (a co-producer and writer of the Emmy-winning TV series …
"It is what I am supposed to do in my life," The Actual Dance playwright Samuel A. Simon told me in a phone interview. He was speaking about the play he developed and has performed that bega…
The In Series is a place for thought, debate, history, and innovation. With the noble goal to invigorate contemporary theatre, to create innovations in "opera and song," to "reimagine these …
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Tartuffe is a delightful rendition of Molière's classic 1664 French comedy. Directed by Sally Boyett and performed in the outdoor courtyard of …
There are so many intersections in life"so much for creative artists to put before audiences as a way to initiate larger conversations about issues that can divide or bring together. In a de…
The audience didn't stop laughing all night. Between Matt Minnicino's rhyming couplet- filled, witty, knowing, sometimes bawdy adaptation (or, as he would have it, "distillation") of a MoliÃ…
The numbers are in, and the 2018-19 season " which saw the opening of 38 productions comprising thirteen musicals (eleven original and two revivals), 21 plays (fourteen original and seven re…
With more than 50 years of DC gospel music history between them, two of the DMV's finest choirs, Washington Performing Arts' Men & Women of the Gospel Choir and Children of the Gospel Ch…
With construction ongoing but substantially completed, The Kennedy Center recently threw open the doors on May 29, 2019 to its new addition, The REACH. It was a glorious day to take in the s…
Pointed Conversations invites members of the community to further engage with Pointless Theatre Company's artistic work through discussion on the themes and ideas of their current production…
For its second show of the season, Cohesion Theatre Company has partnered with the recently-formed Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective to devise and produce the world premiere of Tornki…
Mark Christopher Lawrence is a comedian of myriad talents. Appearing at the Bier Baron Tavern's Comedy Loft, Mr. Lawrence commanded the stage with an act that was multi-dimensional " and wit…
A new musical based upon Sara Pennypacker's book "The Talented Clementine" debuted May 31 at Arlington's Encore Stage & Studio. Adapted by writer-composer Paul Reisler and children from …
The Workhouse Arts Center has someone special working closely with its upcoming production of that fan favorite, Little Shop of Horrors"Emmy Award-winning puppet fabricator and performer Bil…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
The 64th annual Drama Desk Awards were celebrated tonight, honoring excellence in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway artists and shows of the 2018-19 season. The star-studded event…
Like Marcel Proust's famous "madeleine moment," Rajiv Joseph's ambitious new play Describe the Night, in an exciting, Kafkaesque rendering by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, finds philosophi…
In the midst of Pride season, and in the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall riots that defined the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, Rainbow Theatre Project presents a look at…
Providence Players of Fairfax presents Leaving Iowa, a touching comedy written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, and directed by Julie Janson. A hilarious homage to the typical American family r…
Colonial Players' production of Towards Zero is an intriguing murder mystery, by one of the genre's icons. Written by Agatha Christie and Gerald Verner in 1956, the play is based on Christie…
Many of us started our journey into theater as high school students. There was just something about the stage that beckoned us. And that continues for today's high school students. For 20 ye…
Known for his lead roles as the bad-boy heartthrobs in such iconic musicals as Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and The Boy Band Project, Jesse Corbin has the voice, the moves, the acting skill…
I am through being a lonely theater geek, locking myself in my bedroom and shushing non-interested family members throughout the Tony Awards broadcast! This year, I've decided to throw mysel…