By Marilyn Millstone When we think of a circus tightrope performer, most of us think of risk. Fear. Danger. But David Dimitri"whose one-man show L'homme Cirque helps celebrate the Music Cent…
Last week, DCMTA caught up with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) bassist Carlos Henriquez via telephone on a rainy day in Chicago to chat about his Washington, DC tribute performance …
Riverside Center of the Performing Arts reprises Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, a two-act comic operetta that was first produced in December of 1879, and remains in producti…
Free For All, one of the capital's cherished annual traditions, will return for its 29th annual summer to Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), offering two weeks of free performances of the Co…
Tony Award-winning director and Nuyorican choreographer Luis Salgado brings his New York creds to Columbia Heights with the power of a New York City subway platform Flash Dance as over 20 da…
I had the pleasure to speak with saxophonist Trey Sorrells about his participation in the residency program at the Mansion at Strathmore and about his unique blend of jazz, gospel, and R&…
Last Out is a raw emotional journey with no illusions as its core value. It is an intense confessional about military service and the effects on family, told from multiple perspectives. It i…
When Farrell Parker steps out onto the black box stage at The Writer's Center in Flying V's version of We're Gonna Die, something explodes. Light and sound"literally"erupt. And while much of…
How do you replicate perfection"especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin' in the Rain, the beloved movie music…
All the familiar characters are there: Lizzy Bennet, her sisters and parents; suitors Darcy, Bingley, Collins, and Wickham; the de Bourghs and Charlotte. The basic plot lines and period sett…
Antiquity is in the house and what's old is new again. Taffety Punk is presenting two short theater pieces featuring its signature integration of dance, drama, and music based on voices from…
A play is ephemeral. The written words momentarily dance off the page as they are given body and voice, transformed into experience, and witnessed by an audience. The conclusion arrives, the…
As the middle section of Caleen Sinette Jennings' "Queens Girl Trilogy," Queens Girl in Africa is presented in rotating rep with the first piece, Queens Girl in the World (read our …
Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre's production of Crazy for You is a fabulous celebration of song, music, and dancing. The 1992 musical, with a Book by Ken Ludwig and Music and Lyrics by Georg…
Dane Figueroa Edidi is one of DC's most original and multitalented theater artists. A dancer, actor, poet, playwright, and choreographer, she is also a teacher, novelist, political commentat…
Fells Point Corner Theatre's 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipation.…
Best Medicine Rep, Gaithersburg's professional theater company, is proud to announce the lineup for its third season: Helen on Wheels by Cricket Daniel, The Crater Sisters' Chris…
The reviews are in: Jubilee is being praised for honoring and preserving the impact of the Negro Spiritual upon the American Songbook. In the Arena Stage production, Director Tazewell Thomps…
Bless playwrights John Van Deuten/ Joe Masteroff, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb who give us a specific piece of theatre, which is chilling in its applicability to the social cli…
Get ready kweens! For the fifth year in a row, Monumental Theatre Company will be presenting its annual Flip Flop cabaret. This is THE Pride month kickoff event you won't want to miss. Let's…
Synetic Theater's Richard iii is a potent conspiratorial theatrical experience for an anxious age such as ours. It is the ultimate in theatrical paranoia, set in a time out of joint. It's as…
For nearly 30 years, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in nearby Shepherdstown, West Virginia has offered audiences some of the most breathtaking, insightful and pointed dramas you'…
A rom-com about manhunting…at Mosaic? That's probably not the sort of fare you'd expect from DC's preeminent theatrical platform for social-justice programming. But who is to say that fair…
Fredericksburg Theatre Ensemble (fte) was established in the Spring of 2011. They're a nonprofit organization, focusing on guilty pleasures and "celebrating the art of the uncomfortable thro…
"The future is already here"it's just not very evenly distributed." "William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. Synetic Theater, a beloved DC-area institution, has come up with a luxuriantly det…