Spectacular. Amazing. Unforgettable. Pride & Joy is a musical that tells the little known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 " January 31, 2014) and the legendary and iconic…
"Happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you." This line from the final song of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown completely sums up why the Peanuts Gang has remained such a p…
Synetic Theater is proud to announce their 19th Season, beginning with a remount of the popular, water-filled adaptation of The Tempest September 25 through October 20, 2019. A new family-fr…
Undampened by the rain outside, the DC stop on the Ben Platt's Sing to Me Instead tour brought three serious talents to the Anthem stage with thunderous applause. Passionate, creative, and d…
The University of Maryland's Production of The Heidi Chronicles, by playwright Wendy Wasserstein and directed by Scot Reese, leads the audience through the productive life of protagonist Hei…
The circusy-party vibe begins before showtime. The place is festooned with streamers, furnished with comfy sofas, bedecked in colored light, and stocked with bags of popcorn to share. A …
Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage's How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwright…
A day marked by soaking rains lent a fitting atmosphere to Sherlock's Veiled Secret, set between Sussex and London, England. K.C. Brown crafted the play around the legendary sleuth Sherlock …
One night five years ago, a horror happened in Chibok, North Eastern Nigeria. The Boko Haram"Islamicist terrorists who believe that Western education is evil"abducted 276 girls from the scho…
Since 1990 when New York's Public Theater first staged George C. Wolfe's adaptation of three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston into the play Spunk, audiences have gleaned the creative mind…
In this age of devices, the continuing evolution of man's relationship with technology has been the subject of many studies and stories. Madeleine George's play, The (curious case of the) Wa…
Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning God of Carnage is a cautionary tale for modern times. Written in French and translated into English by Christopher Hampton, Reza's razor-sharp black comedy …
The 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards are just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited! All of DC theater in one room together, wearing fancy duds and celebrating another year of hard…
The Lab program at Georgetown University occupies an interesting space in the DC performing arts world, existing at the intersection between art and international affairs. Georgetown's Labor…
The set foreshadows the coming fracas. There's a fault line down the middle where this living room seems sliced in two. And something's out of whack. The halves do not align. Like two st…
The Keegan Theatre is proud to announce its 2019-2020 season, featuring a groundbreaking collection of plays and musicals, including one world premiere, three Washington DC premieres, and it…
The Full Monty, a musical about a group of unemployed, average Joes who decide to put on a one-night-only strip show to make big money fast, is currently playing at the Workhouse Arts Center…
Freshman member of the 116th Congress, Jennifer Wexton (VA " 10th), and former Federal Reserve Governor and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Sarah Bloom Raskin, sit down for a conversation …
To theater historians, dramaturgs, and lovers of all things Greek, the promise of a production of Aeschylus' The Oresteia is enough to drive one mad with joy. To begin with, of all the Greek…
Love Letters, A. R. Gurney's two-character play chronicling the tumultuous lifelong friendship between a couple who never marry will be performed May 31 and June 2 as a special benefit for A…
Ready for teasing mockery and romantic conflict that crosses economic classes and genders with an added dash of some re-imagined blurred lines? Then step up to the wit and words of William S…
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, written by James Kirkwood, Jr. and directed by Michael Page, is a great look at different manifestations of schadenfreude (pleasure derived by someone from another pe…
Constellation Theatre Company, led by Founding Artistic Director Allison Arkell Stockman and Managing Director A.J. Guban, is thrilled to announce its thirteenth season of epic, larger-than-…
The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I've seen in years: a mixture of '50s kitsch, photos of '50s-era entertainers, a record player console, pl…
Actors, by definition, play all sorts of roles. But for Jennifer L. Nelson"a theater veteran who's been working on stage and off ever since she landed in DC at the age of 22"the multi-taskin…