It all started with two overlapping events in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you …
I guess I just don't get Falsettos. The Tony Award® winning musical may have been fresh at its 1992 Broadway debut"it's mainstream depiction of gay couples was certainly trailblazing"but …
As tickets go on sale today for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival, festival goers are realizing that a record-setting 82 Fringe shows of the 89 show festival will open in the first week of th…
In Nashville, there's an Urban Outfitters that used to be an empty warehouse in a sketchy neighborhood where I performed my first adaptation of The Metamorphosis. It was 2001 (a few week…
DanceAfrica DC is a week long celebration of the African Diaspora in Spirit, through Dance, Art, Music and Culture. It takes place every year in the Washington, DC Brookland area. This year'…
For the South of Evan Linder's play Byhalia, Mississippi, both the American flag and the Confederate one should be replaced by one reading "Bless This Mess." It's racist, classist, misogynis…
He's reported from above the Arctic Circle. He's reported from Air Force One. He's reported from wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel. He covered the Justice Department for National Public Radi…
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…
The door slam heard around the world. Has there ever been a more memorable exit than Nora Helmer banging the door closed on her life, marriage and children in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House"o…
With stars overhead and faint sounds from picturesque Ellicott City, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) brings a homey atmosphere to their movable Macbeth, performed amongst the renovated …
The title Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance comes from a painter's refrain to a film director that the subject of your art doesn't matter, only that you make it. To this end, th…
With A Misanthrope, Manhattan-based playwright Matt Minnicino has fashioned a "Molière for millenials" with this very witty and sometimes crass twist on the 17th century playwright's The Mi…
Creative Cauldron doesn't shy away from the big and bold, and producing the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast embodies that to the hilt. Amidst its small modest space, the Di…
Forest Treás is a fictionalized cozy Mayberry-type Maryland town described by its residents as the "safest place" to live. This original story loosely inspired by conditions surroundi…
A quarter-century ago, C. Brian Williams, who'd honed his step-dancing skills as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha at Howard University, was visiting South Africa at the dawn of the Nelson Mandela…
Ask any hoofer to name their favorite dance movies, and you're bound to hear Singin' in the Rain among their list. The classic 1952 Hollywood musical about the waning days of silent films st…
Plenty of pop culture real estate"from The Omen to We Need to Talk About Kevin, to name a few"has been devoted to parents coming to terms with the possibility that their child may be pure ev…
While viewers in past years might have retired early from the 3 hour Tony Awards show, 2019's host James Corden gave them plenty of reasons to stay tuned through to the final awards in tonig…
Theater Alliance has appointed Jennifer Clements as the company's Managing Director. She joins Raymond O. Caldwell, who became the company's Producing Artistic Director in January, 2019. Cle…
Grease is still "the" word, judging from the packed house and enthusiastic response to the 50's-style Broadway score most people can easily sing along with. The stage show has been a popular…
I expect that, if you've found your way to this review, you will love the national tour of the recent Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, newly ensconced at Kennedy Center's Opera House. Look…
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a…
A medical emergency. If that's not song and dance material, I don't know what is. But under composer William Finn's tunefully neurotic steerage, serious brain trauma becomes a bright, fresh …
Dane Figueroa Edidi: "To be Black, and a woman and trans means each time someone experiences you or your work there is a shift that has to happen in others for them to even begin to lean in.…
"Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true," wrote British novelist William Makepeace Thackery, author of Vanity Fair. This simple s…