When the holiday season approaches, we tend to turn to things that give us joy and comfort. The arts always seem to take center stage during these darker months " providing togetherness, lig…
Following sold-out debut cabaret concerts at Joe's Pub and The Green Room 42 in 2019, and a featured number on Playbill's virtual ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices this October (for which t…
If you're looking for a family-friendly show to kick off the holidays at home this year while keeping you connected to your favorite all-ages hits from Broadway during the coronavirus hiatus…
It's one thing to be cooped up and have an excuse for it; COVID has us all hunkering down, and we all teeter on the brink between tedium and madness"with good reason. It's another thing enti…
Charles Dickens' classic novella of 1843, A Christmas Carol, has remained a beloved time-honored tradition of the holiday season since the Victorian era, with a wide array of presentations t…
On Thursday, December 3, in partnership with NYU's Tisch School for the Arts, the NYC Mayor's Office, and the United Nations, Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) will present its fifth annual performan…
As the DC-area theater community reckons with and takes steps to combat racism through open, heartfelt conversations and real-world actions to bring forth equity, diversity, and inclusion, w…
As the world collectively plans to close the door (and maybe throw away the key?) on 2020, Studio Theatre offers a reflection on this complicated, unexpected, and consequential moment …
Solas Nua, the DC-based contemporary Irish arts organization, has appointed Miranda Driscoll its interim executive director. Having served for five years as director/CEO of Sirius Arts Centr…
Ahoy, Mateys! Join a virtual audio adventure for all ages this Black Friday aboard the sailing ship Hispaniola, as young Jim Hawkins and the expedition crew hunt for lost booty, face mutiny,…
With the crucial need for social distancing to stop the spread of the spiking coronavirus, this year's Thanksgiving observance will be very different than the traditional annual gathering of…
Twenty-nine years before George Floyd was murdered on camera and 18 years before Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for "breaking and entering" into his own home, Antioch…
The headlines tell us to stay put. To not travel so we protect ourselves, our loved ones, our communities and the Nation as a whole"advice that DC-area residents seem to be heeding this Than…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre recently released their mixed media streaming production of The JookJOYnt, A Black in Space Powered by Makers Lab Experience. The video is a funky intergalactic collag…
For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which launched in 1924, will be reimagined for our pandemic times by going virtual on both TV and onlin…
These days, in lieu of live scripted comedy, I've learned to feel lucky whenever I find online theater that gets me LOLing all alone. To be honest, that happens rarely, and never all the way…
When Ellen Hwangbo launched a Washington, DC, chamber concert series in November 2019 that included a venue just a stone's throw from the White House, little seemed brazen about it. But with…
The centennial of the birth of Clarice Lispector (1920-77), one of Brazil's most important literary figures of the 20th century, is being celebrated by Group Dot BR (NYC's only Brazilian the…
Brave Spirits Theatre announced in September that its acclaimed Shakespeare's histories seasons would end ("A tribute to Brave Spirits as it calls off Shakespeare's histories due to COVID").…
The immersive sound installation Blindness, originally produced to great acclaim at London's Donmar Warehouse, makes its U.S. premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company December 8, 2020. For th…
A variety show, a talk show, and a newly-commissioned dance piece are among the free selections streaming from NYC this Friday through Monday, all of which will remain available online for f…
Silver Spring Stage is offering a new season of virtual performances. First up is Lobby Hero by the Academy Award"winning Kenneth Lonergan, an absorbing play where good intentions can be …
It's time again for that trickster, Lopez de Vega, the wily, prolific playwright who knows what will put asses on seats and will give it to you every time"only with a wry twist or two in the…
Responding to the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled all previously scheduled programs through April 25, 2021. Additionally, Washingt…
Ready for some fun? You've earned it. Escape from the messy troubled real world is just a click away with the engaging audio farce from the intrepid folk at Edge of the Universe Players 2. T…